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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Visions of the Black Belt

A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Science as Service

Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press

Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Among the Garifuna

Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast

University of Alabama Press

An intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twentieth-century Caribbean

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Writing Religion

The Case for the Critical Study of Religion

Edited by Steven W. Ramey; Foreword by Theodore Louis Trost and Steven Leonard Jacobs; Introduction by Steven W. Ramey; Afterword by Russell T. McCutcheon
University of Alabama Press

Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is a collection of outstanding essays on wide-ranging aspects of religious studies by well-known scholars, delivered as part of the University of Alabama’s annual Aronov Lectures.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Heart of Creation

The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele

Edited by Andrea Stone
University of Alabama Press

Of interest to professionals as well as generalists, this collection will stand as a marker of the state of Mayan studies at the turn of the 21st century and as a tribute to the remarkable personality, Linda Schele, who guided a large part of that archaeological research for more than two decades.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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The Victory Album

Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War

University of Alabama Press
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Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815

Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans

University of Alabama Press

Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815 by Tom Kanon tells the often forgotten story of the central role citizens and soldiers from Tennessee played in the Creek War in Alabama and War of 1812.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Hunt the Devil

A Demonology of US War Culture

University of Alabama Press

Hunt the Devil explains the origins and processes of the repetitive American reflex to demonize and then wage war against perceived opponents as well as ways to break the cycle.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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For Decades I Was Silent

A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith

University of Alabama Press

A fascinating memoir about a Holocaust survivor's loss of and journey back to faith.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Colonizing Paradise

Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies

University of Alabama Press

Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean

  • Copyright year: 2015
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What I Say

Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Preface by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Introduction by C. S. Giscombe
University of Alabama Press

What I Say is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World

The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812

University of Alabama Press

The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World is a collection of original essays that offer insights into how the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 shaped and influenced the political culture of Iberian America.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Inside the Teaching Machine

Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University

University of Alabama Press

Inside the Teaching Machine argues that the U.S. public research university has always been a vital component of the capitalist political economy. Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments often ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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If It Takes All Summer

Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964

By Dan R. Warren; Foreword by Morris Dees
University of Alabama Press

An insider’s record of the St. Augustine Civil Rights drama.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Edith Wharton in Context

Essays on Intertextuality

University of Alabama Press

These new and classic essays, researched and written over a 25-year period, are driven and enriched by the enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion of a scholar still making discoveries about a subject of lifelong fascination. Essays at the center of the collection explore Wharton’s textual relationships with authors whom she knew well—especially Henry James but also Paul Bourget, F. Marion Crawford, and Vivienne de Watteville.

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Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America

An Interpretive Guide

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom

University of Alabama Press

Alabama’s great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama’s preserved civil rights sites and monuments

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Transforming the Dead

Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest

University of Alabama Press

The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Show Us How You Do It

Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968

University of Alabama Press

A major figure in southern black restorationist church history

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Searching for Freedom after the Civil War

Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman

University of Alabama Press

Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Raphael Semmes

The Philosophical Mariner

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1997
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Between the Eagle and the Sun

Traces of Japan

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Rhetorical Exposures

Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography

University of Alabama Press

In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present in order to illuminate the political dimensions and consequences of photographs taken and selected to highlight social injustice.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Loving God's Wildness

The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature

University of Alabama Press

Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Lincoln's Trident

The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War

University of Alabama Press

Lincoln’s Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron’s quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Immersive Words

Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893

University of Alabama Press

Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America’s evolving national identity. 

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Wings of Gold

An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II, The Correspondence of Aviation Cadet/Ensign Robert R. Rea

University of Alabama Press

Wings of Gold presents the personal account of the experiences and reactions of an individual cadet preparing for war in the naval aviation training program at its peak during World War II.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán

Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876

University of Alabama Press

Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of the complex and violent history of Mexico’s easternmost Gulf Coast region that expands and revises perceptions of liberal as well as Second Empire politics from 1855 to 1876.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction

University of Alabama Press

A highly innovative study in which James B. Stoltman uses petrography to reveal previously undetectable evidence of cultural interaction among Hopewell societies of the Ohio Valley region and the contemporary peoples of the Southeast

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Seed

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

In an age of contested values, Stanley Crawford’s wry Seed offers a sardonic exploration of the meaning of “values.” Curmudgeon Bill Starr’s end-of-life decisions illuminate the values that rule his life and his heirs’, as well as the material objects he and they perceive as having value.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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O'Hearn

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

O’Hearn is the second novel by highly praised writer Greg Mulcahy, author of Out of Work, Constellation, and Carbine. Timely and mordantly sardonic, O’Hearn tells the story of the disintegration of a man’s life refracted through the prism of his office life.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Hospice

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Hospice is the debut novel of Gregory Howard. In it, he follows Lucy, a young woman whose series of jobs opens windows into the strange lives of others and in so doing brings her back to her own secrets.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Archaeology of Events

Cultural Change and Continuity in the Pre-Columbian Southeast

University of Alabama Press

The first work to apply an events-based approach to the analysis of pivotal developments in the pre-Columbian Southeast

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Active Romanticism

The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice

University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Collards

A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table

University of Alabama Press

The definitive survey of collards, an iconic southern food

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Cultural Forests of the Amazon

A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes

University of Alabama Press

Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world.

 

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood"

University of Alabama Press

Truman Capote and the Legacy of 'In Cold Blood' is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.

 

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Transfiguring Sword

The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union

University of Alabama Press

Provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause

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New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South

Historical and Contemporary Approaches

University of Alabama Press

An outgrowth of the LAVIS III symposium (2004), New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches comprises forty-five original essays (revised and reviewed) on a range of topics regarding the languages and dialects of the American South.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Jewish Continuity in America

Creative Survival in a Free Society

University of Alabama Press

Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity.

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