The University of Alabama Press
As the scholarly publishing arm of the university, The University of Alabama Press serves as an agent in the advancement of learning and the dissemination of scholarship. The Press applies the highest standards to all phases of publishing including acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing.UAP has won numerous awards for its publications over the years and has developed a solid list of titles in archaeology, public administration, and several areas of literature and history. With a staff of 17, the Press publishes between 80 to 85 books a year and has a backlist of approximately 1,800 titles in print.
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Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35
Edited by Sara Freeman; Introduction by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.
- Copyright year: 2016
The World as Presence/El mundo como ser
University of Alabama Press
"Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry" (https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/announcing-the-2017-national-translation-award-longlists-for-poetry-and-prose/).
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets.
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets.
- Copyright year: 2016
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms
Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast
University of Alabama Press
Rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans
- Copyright year: 2016
The Eleventh House
Memoirs
By Hudson Strode; Introduction by Don Noble
University of Alabama Press
The Eleventh House is a remarkable memoir by an influential critic, teacher, world traveler, and raconteur whose sheer exuberance helped to form a network of literary friendships unparalleled in twentieth-century arts and letters. Hudson Strode—writer, gardener, gourmet, and world traveler—proceeds from his childhood home in Alabama to the international literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, recounting meetings with Eugene O'Neill, H. L. Mencken, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, the Prince of Wales, and the King of Sweden.
- Copyright year: 1975
The Domesticated Penis
How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates that not only natural selection but also female choice has played a key role in shaping male anatomy
Public Administration's Final Exam
A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline
University of Alabama Press
Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
By Allen Fisher; Foreword by Pierre Joris
University of Alabama Press
Imperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher’s remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole.
- Copyright year: 2016
Bonapartists in the Borderlands
French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835
University of Alabama Press
Discusses the ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America's westward expansion and the French Revolution
- Copyright year: 2005
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism
University of Alabama Press
Examines the origin, elements, and evolving significance of the “tides” in his discourse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Copyright year: 1994
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature
University of Alabama Press
A multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both American music and literature from 1920 to 1929
- Copyright year: 2015
Alabama
The Making of an American State
University of Alabama Press
A thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama
- Copyright year: 2016
Edgar and Brigitte
A German Jewish Passage to America
By Rosemarie Bodenheimer; Afterword by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
University of Alabama Press
A consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding
- Copyright year: 2016
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
University of Alabama Press
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman
By Robert T. Hubard; Edited by Thomas P Nanzig
University of Alabama Press
A witness who brings remarkable life and color to the Civil War in the East
A Man's Game
Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism
By John Dudley
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism
Year of the Rat
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice.
- Copyright year: 2016
Exploring Wild Alabama
A Guide to the State's Publicly Accessible Natural Areas
University of Alabama Press
The most comprehensive guide available to Alabama’s publicly accessible natural destinations
- Copyright year: 2016
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson
University of Alabama Press
Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices explores the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology in popular culture and the ways that professional archaeologists can respond to sensationalized depictions of archaeology and archaeologists.
- Copyright year: 2016
Coming Out of War
Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars
University of Alabama Press
Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars is a wide-ranging and accessible account of American and British poetry, music, and visual art born of World War I and World War II. In it, Stout argues that poetry, of all the arts, most fully captures and conveys the modern culture of grief embodied by war experiences.
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle
University of Alabama Press
The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influence
Ain't Nothin' But a Winner
Bear Bryant, The Goal Line Stand, and a Chance of a Lifetime
University of Alabama Press
A rollicking memoir from the linebacker at the heart of the most famous Alabama football play of all time
- Copyright year: 2006
Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
University of Alabama Press
Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s introduction to Georgia’s thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations.
- Copyright year: 1987
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
By Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh; Foreword by Dilcy Windham Hilley and Ben Windham
University of Alabama Press
This keepsake edition of the timeless bestseller Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh reproduces in facsimile the original hardcover version of a beloved classic.
- Copyright year: 1969
Civil War Weather in Virginia
University of Alabama Press
Civil War Weather in Virginia fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and Richmond, Virginia.
Footprints in Stone
Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods
University of Alabama Press
Footprints in Stone is the definitive guide to the Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site in northwest Alabama, the discovery of whose vast quantity of 310-million-year-old fossil tetrapod footprints and other traces is one of the most significant developments in modern paleontology.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 24
Theatre and Space
Edited by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press
Addresses “theatre and space” as a wide-ranging topic in theatre history, examining the myriad spatial arrangements, architectural styles, and historical contexts that inform theatrical productions, and the relationships of audiences to those spaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South
The Other Invisible Institution
University of Alabama Press
Macaulay challenges the prevailing belief that religion in the south developed solely through "revivalistic emotion" and not by religious rationalism.
Thomas Goode Jones
Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South
University of Alabama Press
Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Myth of Water
Poems from the Life of Helen Keller
University of Alabama Press
In The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller, Alabama poet Jeanie Thompson offers a rich collection of poems that form an illuminating first-person narrative through the life of writer and activist Helen Keller.
- Copyright year: 2016
Schooling Readers
Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Schooling Readers takes up a largely unexplored genre of fiction, the common school narrative, popular between 1830 and 1890. These stories both propagate and challenge the myth of the idyllic one-room school, and reveal Americans’ perceptions of and anxieties about public education, many of which still resonate today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza
By Ángel Escobar; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The best-known work by acclaimed Cuban poet Ángel Escobar
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
By Brett Ommen
University of Alabama Press
The Politics of the Superficial argues that the increasing volume of visually communicative surfaces in public life contributes to a very particular form of public imagination and political activity.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
By Ronald Berman; Introduction by Ronald Berman
University of Alabama Press
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz."
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders
University of Alabama Press
Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
- Copyright year: 2010
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work
- Copyright year: 2016
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
University of Alabama Press
How Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
By Alexander Z. Gurwitz; Edited by Bryan Edward Stone; Translated by Amram Prero; Introduction by Bryan Edward Stone; Preface by Alexander Z. Gurwitz
University of Alabama Press
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
- Copyright year: 2016
A Universal Theory of Pottery Production
Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography
University of Alabama Press
By an analysis of ceramic production, appendage, and decorative techniques at the Paso del Indio archaeological site in Puerto Rico, Richard A. Krause’s A Universal Theory of Pottery Production offers new insight into a classic theory of pottery manufacture by production steps and stages.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets—long a fixture of Western poetic tradition—is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more “real” entities of physical sex and desire.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fanning the Spark
A Memoir
University of Alabama Press
Fanning the Spark is the story of Mary Ward Brown's life as a writer—her upbringing in rural Alabama; the joys of college, marriage, and motherhood; the sorrows of becoming a widow; and a lifelong devotion to writing, writers, and literature, and the company of those who shared those loves, nurturing and feeding her interior life in the face of many challenges, losses, and obstacles, both emotional and material.
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