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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Epistolary Responses
The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
By Anne Bower
University of Alabama Press
Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective.
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
University of Alabama Press
The Historian behind the History is a collection of ten fascinating interviews with southern historians who offer insights into their individual career paths and into the work of professional historians.
- Copyright year: 2014
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture
- Copyright year: 2014
The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines
Pioneer and Statesman of Early Alabama and Mississippi, 1805–1843
By George Strother Gaines; Edited by James P. Pate
University of Alabama Press
Provides a fascinating glimpse into the early history of the Mississippi-Alabama Territory and antebellum Alabama
- Copyright year: 1998
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22
Broadway and Beyond: Commercial Theatre Considered
Edited by David S. Thompson and Jane Barnette
University of Alabama Press
The eleven original essays in Volume 22 of Theatre Symposium examine facets of the historical and current business of theatre.
- Copyright year: 2014
Truman Capote's Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition
Stories from a Monroeville Cousin
By Marianne M. Moates; Foreword by Ralph F. Voss
University of Alabama Press
Celebrates Marianne M. Moates’s insightful and detailed account of Truman Capote’s early childhood in Alabama as recounted by his cousin Jennings Faulk Carter
- Copyright year: 2014
Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
University of Alabama Press
Explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling in literature
- Copyright year: 2014
The Punitive Imagination
Law, Justice, and Responsibility
University of Alabama Press
Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and socially
- Copyright year: 2014
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
University of Alabama Press
Considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike
- Copyright year: 2014
The Observable Characteristics of Organisms
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Ryan MacDonald’s debut collection of short fiction includes “The Observable Characteristics of Organisms,” which won the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Prize.
- Copyright year: 2014
Helen Keller Really Lived
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The newest novel by Elisabeth Sheffield, the award-winning author of Gone and Fort Da
- Copyright year: 2014
Freshwater Mussels of Florida
University of Alabama Press
Freshwater Mussels of Florida is the only comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia of all recorded species of mussels in the state of Florida.
- Copyright year: 2014
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours is the winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.
- Copyright year: 2014
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
University of Alabama Press
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible
American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard
Edited by Robert McClure Smith and Ellen Weinauer
University of Alabama Press
Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periods
- Copyright year: 2003
After War Times
An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida
By T. Thomas Fortune; Edited by Daniel R. Weinfeld; Introduction by Dawn J. Herd-Clark; Afterword by Tameka Bradley Hobbs
University of Alabama Press
Twenty-three autobiographical articles by noted African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune, comprising a late-life memoir of his childhood in Reconstruction-era Florida
- Copyright year: 2014
Alabama Governors
A Political History of the State
University of Alabama Press
An entirely revised and updated edition of the best-selling 2001 original
- Copyright year: 2014
Our Southern Zion
A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America
- Copyright year: 1996
Storm of Words
Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era
University of Alabama Press
A study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions
- Copyright year: 2014
Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom
Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Communities along the Alabama River
University of Alabama Press
Reconstructing Tascalusa’s Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernando de Soto expedition.
- Copyright year: 2014
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Edited by Monika Elbert
University of Alabama Press
Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980
The First Twenty Days
By Kathleen Dupes Hawk, Ron Villella, and Adolfo Leyva de Varona; Edited by Kristen Cifers; Foreword by Bob Graham
University of Alabama Press
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 recounts first-hand the drama and political intrigue that erupted when more than thirty thousand Cuban refugees fled to Florida and the stories of the first responders who aided them.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze
Regarding Subjectivity
By John Dolis
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative technique and unique vision of the world
The Emperor Redressed
Critiquing Critical Theory
Edited by Dwight Eddins; Introduction by Dwight Eddins
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1995
Tell the World You're a Wildflower
Stories
University of Alabama Press
In Tell the World You’re a Wildflower, Jennifer Horne luminously brings to life the criss-crossing experiences of Southern women in twenty-four contemporary short stories.
- Copyright year: 2014
Simon Baruch
Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Edited by Austin Sarat; Introduction by Austin Sarat
University of Alabama Press
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
- Copyright year: 2014
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
By Ben Railton
University of Alabama Press
Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
Beside the Troubled Waters
A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town
University of Alabama Press
A memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era
The Woman I Am
Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906–2006
University of Alabama Press
Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel
University of Alabama Press
Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief.
- Copyright year: 2014
Sacrifice and Survival
Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South
- Copyright year: 2014
Miles of Stare
Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America
University of Alabama Press
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
- Copyright year: 2014
Welcome the Hour of Conflict
William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama
By William Cowan McClellan; Edited by John C. Carter
University of Alabama Press
Vivid and lively letters from a young Confederate in Lee’s Army
- Copyright year: 2007
The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah
A Memorable Cruise
University of Alabama Press
The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe
- Copyright year: 2005
Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South
Edited by James X. Corgan
University of Alabama Press
Nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States
- Copyright year: 1982
The Good Men Who Won the War
Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory
University of Alabama Press
Examines how Union veterans of the Army of the Cumberland employed the extinction of slavery in the trans-Appalachian South in their memory of the Civil War
In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
A Value Pluralist Perspective
University of Alabama Press
A spirited declaration of principles and a timely contribution to a dialogue that is redefining public administration, both in theory and in practice
- Copyright year: 2009
Reclaiming Queer
Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
By Erin J. Rand
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s
- Copyright year: 2014
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
University of Alabama Press
Gay male identity as a product of rhetoric and public discourse in modern America.
Abductive Reasoning
University of Alabama Press
A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence
- Copyright year: 2005
Voices in the Wilderness
Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
A work of composition theory, rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately provides not only new approaches to argumentation and the teaching of rhetoric, composition, and communication but also an original perspective on the current debate over public discourse.
- Copyright year: 1999
From Conciliation to Conquest
The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin
University of Alabama Press
In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for "outrages" committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama
Mammals of Alabama
By Troy L. Best and Julian L. Dusi
University of Alabama Press
Beautifully designed and sturdily bound for rugged field use, Mammals of Alabama is the first and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama’s diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna
- Copyright year: 2014
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
University of Alabama Press
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2014
The English Physician
By Nicholas Culpeper; Edited by Michael A. Flannery; Introduction by Michael A. Flannery; Footnotes by Michael A. Flannery
University of Alabama Press
The first medical book published in the American colonies
- Copyright year: 2007
Patterson for Alabama
The Life and Career of John Patterson
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2013
Mule South to Tractor South
Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South
University of Alabama Press
The adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor
- Copyright year: 2013
Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
University of Alabama Press
A fresh perspective on the interaction of religious ideals and social change in rural settlements of the Moravian colony of Wachovia.
- Copyright year: 2013
Debt, Investment, Slaves
Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885
By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne; Foreword by Gavin Wright
University of Alabama Press
Richard Kilbourne has produced a comprehensive study of the credit system in one Louisiana parish in the antebellum and postbellum periods of the Civil War. East Feliciana Parish was important in terms of both population and the large number of slaves. This book’s primary concern is the role of slave property in collateralizing credit relationships and planter perceptions regarding slaves as financial assets.
- Copyright year: 2013
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