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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Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Rabbi Max Heller
Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
University of Alabama Press
This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.
When Colleges Sang
The Story of Singing in American College Life
University of Alabama Press
When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.
- Copyright year: 2013
Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had
The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley
University of Alabama Press
This rare correspondence between a soldier and his wife relates in poignant detail the struggle for survival on the battlefield as well as on the home front and gives voice to the underrepresented class of small farmers
- Copyright year: 2002
After Wallace
The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness
- Copyright year: 2009
Head Masters
Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
University of Alabama Press
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced
- Copyright year: 2005
Stubborn Poetries
Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde
University of Alabama Press
Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon.
- Copyright year: 2013
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
By Ira Wells
University of Alabama Press
An entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters
- Copyright year: 2013
The Irony of the Solid South
Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944
University of Alabama Press
The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the Democratic Party andhow that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II.
- Copyright year: 2013
Frank Norris Remembered
Edited by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath
University of Alabama Press
Frank Norris Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by Norris’s contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of America’s most popular novelists.
- Copyright year: 2013
Their Blood Runs Cold
Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
University of Alabama Press
Their Blood Runs Cold is entertaining, informative reading that not only enhances our understanding of a unique group of animals, but also provides genuine insight into the mind and character of a research scientist.
Brutes or Angels
Human Possibility in the Age of Biotechnology
University of Alabama Press
A guide to the rapidly progressing Age of Biotechnology, Brutes or Angels provides basic information on a wide array of new technologies in the life sciences, along with the ethical issues raised by each
- Copyright year: 2013
Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States
University of Alabama Press
Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States is a full-color, highly illustrated guide to the sixty-four known species of mosquitoes in eleven genera that populate the South--from the Gulf Coastal states to the Carolinas.
- Copyright year: 2013
Opening the Doors
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama Press
Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement.
- Copyright year: 2013
They Dragged Them through the Streets
A Novel
By Hilary Plum
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Hilary Plum’s grave and elegant novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets is a bold meditation on human suffering and the sorrowful challenges of men and women striving for collective change.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Pet Thief
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind’s inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world.
- Copyright year: 2013
Traces of Gold
California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West
South by Southwest
Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History
University of Alabama Press
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.
- Copyright year: 2013
Heaven's Soldiers
Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida
By Frank Marotti; Introduction by Frank Marotti
University of Alabama Press
Heaven’s Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.
- Copyright year: 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation
University of Alabama Press
Examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people in ethnography and in anthropological work
- Copyright year: 2013
Letters from Alabama
Chiefly Relating to Natural History
University of Alabama Press
This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state.
- Copyright year: 2013
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Edited by Bernard K. Means; Introduction by Bernard K. Means
University of Alabama Press
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
- Copyright year: 2013
Fieldworks
From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics
By Lytle Shaw
University of Alabama Press
Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.
- Copyright year: 2013
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
University of Alabama Press
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.
- Copyright year: 2013
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room
A Biography of the William Badger,1828-1865
By Peter Kurtz; Preface by Peter Kurtz
University of Alabama Press
Explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger
- Copyright year: 2013
Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship
University of Alabama Press
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society.
- Copyright year: 2013
F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.
- Copyright year: 2003
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross
Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South
University of Alabama Press
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt
Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax
By Molly Guptill Manning; Foreword by John Train
University of Alabama Press
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Darkness of the Present
Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly
University of Alabama Press
The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.
- Copyright year: 2012
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
University of Alabama Press
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
By Mark Newman
University of Alabama Press
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed
Frances Newman
Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel
University of Alabama Press
This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance
Germany in Central America
Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes the German role in Central American domestic and international relations
- Copyright year: 1999
Roosevelt the Reformer
Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895
University of Alabama Press
Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington
Party Organization and Activism in the American South
University of Alabama Press
Maps the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South
The Presidency and Public Policy
The Four Arenas of Presidential Power
University of Alabama Press
Southern Parties and Elections
Studies in Regional Political Change
University of Alabama Press
Clarifies the recent and dramatic development of party competition in the South
Red Eagle's Children
Weatherford vs. Weatherford et al.
University of Alabama Press
Red Eagle’s Children presents the legal proceedings in an inheritance dispute that serves as an unexpected window on the intersection of two cultural and legal systems: Creek Indian and Euro-American.
- Copyright year: 2012
An Uncompromising Secessionist
The Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eighth (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry
By George Knox Miller; Edited by Richard M. McMurry
University of Alabama Press
Offers significant insight into the life, heart, mind, and attitudes of an intelligent, educated, young mid-19th-century white Southerner
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
University of Alabama Press
Provides a penetrating analysis of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley
- Copyright year: 2012
Founding Fictions
University of Alabama Press
An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
Ferns of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A much-needed field guide to the more than 120 species of ferns and fern allies occurring naturally in the state
- Copyright year: 2012
The Disappearing South?
Studies in Regional Change and Continuity
University of Alabama Press
There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II—the essays in The Disappearing South address the ongoing debate
Swim for the Little One First
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Swim for the Little One First is a dazzling new collection of twelve short fictions by the acclaimed fiction writer and prose stylist Noy Holland.
- Copyright year: 2012
Sinclair Lewis Remembered
University of Alabama Press
Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize–winning American writer.
- Copyright year: 2012
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 20
Gods and Groundlings: Historical Theatrical Audiences
Edited by Edward Bert Wallace; Introduction by Edward Bert Wallace
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Theatre History Studies 2012, Vol. 32
Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Governing Narratives
Symbolic Politics and Policy Change
University of Alabama Press
By highlighting the degree to which meaning making in public policy is more a cultural struggle than a rational and analytical project, Governing Narratives brings public administration back into a political context.
- Copyright year: 2012
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