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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Horses Dream of Money

Stories

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic

University of Alabama Press

New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic

  • Copyright year: 2017
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After the Whale

Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick

University of Alabama Press

Contextualizes Herman Melville’s short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s era

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A Road Course in Early American Literature

Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst

University of Alabama Press

Essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar

University of Alabama Press

These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean

History and Archaeology

University of Alabama Press

Case studies examining the archaeological record of an overlooked mineral

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Story of Food in the Human Past

How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are

University of Alabama Press

A sweeping overview of how and what humans have eaten in their long history as a species
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Power of Their Will

Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

University of Alabama Press

A valuable narrative of the often paradoxical and conflicting human bonds between female owners and the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Revolution as Reformation

Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832

University of Alabama Press

Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Korean Showdown

National Policy and Military Strategy in a Limited War, 1951–1952

University of Alabama Press

A historical analysis of the policies and military strategies applied during the Korean War stalemate period
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite

University of Alabama Press

A groundbreaking historical narrative of corruption and economic success in Mexico
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39

University of Alabama Press

Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology by B. M. W. Schrapnel, Ph.D.

University of Alabama Press

This potpourri of satire on language use in Western culture will trigger chuckles and guffaws from an eclectic readership
 

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited

University of Alabama Press

Hill’s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded – and compellingly relevant

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Dixie's Great War

World War I and the American South

Edited by John Giggie and Andrew Huebner; Afterword by Jay M. Winter
University of Alabama Press

Examining the First World War through the lens of the American South

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Antisubmarine Warrior in the Pacific

Six Subs Sunk in Twelve Days

University of Alabama Press

A first-hand account of the USS England's accomplishments, written by its commanding officer
 

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Historic Watermills of North America

A Visual Preservation

By Ken Boyd; By (photographer) Ken Boyd
University of Alabama Press

112 full-color artistic photographs of watermills still standing on the North American landscape
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century

Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing

Edited by Robin Behn; Introduction by Robin Behn
University of Alabama Press

Fun and innovative exercises and prompts for creative writing students

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mastering the Law

Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire

University of Alabama Press

Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Through the Window, Out the Door

Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion

University of Alabama Press

This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists.

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