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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Hispanicism and Early US Literature
Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity
University of Alabama Press
Well-researched analysis of the impact that Spain and Spanish America had on antebellum literature in the United States
- Copyright year: 2018
Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy
The Politics of Implementation
University of Alabama Press
An examination of US public policymaking and securing rights for people with disabilities.
- Copyright year: 1989
Of Such a Nature/Índole
University of Alabama Press
An English translation from one of Latin America’s most distinguished poets.
- Copyright year: 2018
An American Rabbi in Korea
A Chaplain's Journey in the Forgotten War
University of Alabama Press
A firsthand account of the American Jewish experience on the front lines of the Korean War
- Copyright year: 2004
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, 1933–1942
A Great and Lasting Good
University of Alabama Press
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama traces in great detail the work projects, the camp living conditions, the daily lives of the enrollees, the administration and management challenges, and the lasting effects of this Neal Deal program in Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2008
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent
Feminist Rhetoric and the Law
University of Alabama Press
A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence
- Copyright year: 2018
TOKYO
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A novel in three parts, linked by a single narrative of disaster, loss, and longing
- Copyright year: 2018
The Making Sense of Things
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A grand tour of the edges of our lives, where glory and significance riot against the logic of living and the pall of tragedy.
- Copyright year: 2018
Bhopal Dance
A Novel
By Jennifer Natalya Fink; Foreword by Mary Caponegro
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster—and perhaps our own
- Copyright year: 2018
Points of Honor
Short Stories of the Great War by a US Combat Marine
University of Alabama Press
A masterwork of World War I short stories portraying the experiences of Marines in battle.
- Copyright year: 2018
Maria Martin's World
Art and Science, Faith and Family in Audubon’s America
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length treatment of one of John James Audubon’s background painters.
- Copyright year: 2018
Lacan in Public
Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work.
- Copyright year: 2012
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
University of Alabama Press
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
- Copyright year: 2017
Camp Chase and the Evolution of Union Prison Policy
University of Alabama Press
Discusses an important yet often misunderstood topic in American History
- Copyright year: 2007
Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
Edited by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister; Preface by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister; Introduction by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister
University of Alabama Press
An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: ancient rhetoric and digitally networked communication
- Copyright year: 2018
The Perfect Scout
A Soldier’s Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas
University of Alabama Press
A rare and dramatic first-person account by a Union scout who served General William Tecumseh Sherman on his “march to the sea”
- Copyright year: 2018
Scalia v. Scalia
Opportunistic Textualism in Constitutional Interpretation
University of Alabama Press
An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law
- Copyright year: 2018
Cuarto oscuro
Recuerdos en blanco y negro
By Lila Quintero Weaver; Translated by Karina Elizabeth Vázquez
University of Alabama Press
La novela gráfico de Lila Quintero-Weaver que obtuvo amplio reconocimiento crítico. Por medio de impresionantes ilustraciones, la autora ofrece una memoria cautivante y conmovedora de la infancia, las relaciones raciales, la etnicidad y la identidad en el sur de los Estados Unidos. Sus dibujos de estilo sutil, pero efectivo, refuerzan dramáticament una sentida narración.
- Copyright year: 2018
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment
- Copyright year: 2018
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
By P. Allen Krause; Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Stephen Krause; Introduction by P. Allen Krause and Mark K. Bauman
University of Alabama Press
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36
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: 2017
Martin Buber's Formative Years
From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909
University of Alabama Press
An illuminating look at an understudied, but critical, period in Buber’s early career.
- Copyright year: 1995
Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton
University of Alabama Press
An investigation into Wharton’s extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction
- Copyright year: 1995
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat
Volume 1
University of Alabama Press
A Civil War history classic, now back in print.
- Copyright year: 1991
Borders of Visibility
Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State
University of Alabama Press
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic
- Copyright year: 2018
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things
University of Alabama Press
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality.
- Copyright year: 2016
Bringing Montessori to America
S. S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign to Publicize Montessori Education
By Gerald L. Gutek and Patricia A. Gutek
University of Alabama Press
Tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 25
Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Global Stage
Edited by Becky K. Becker; Introduction by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press
Addresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces.
- Copyright year: 2017
A Movement of the People
The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama
By Katie Lamar Jackson; Foreword by David Mathews
University of Alabama Press
How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness
- Copyright year: 2017
Paradise Field
A Novel in Stories
By Pamela Ryder
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death
- Copyright year: 2017
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