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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These Rugged Days
Alabama in the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
I couldn’t stop reading it! Bravo!” —Ken Burns, Emmy Award-winning producer and director of The Civil War
- Copyright year: 2017
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Edited by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe; Introduction by Henry B. Wonham; Other primary creator Lawrence Howe
University of Alabama Press
Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life
- Copyright year: 2017
Grandeur of the Everyday
The Paintings of Dale Kennington
By Dale Kennington; Introduction by Daniel White
University of Alabama Press
A lavishly illustrated overview of the life and work of realist painter Dale Kennington, featuring more than eighty-five of her most renowned works.
- Copyright year: 2017
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
University of Alabama Press
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
- Copyright year: 2017
Keep Your Airspeed Up
The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
By Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner
University of Alabama Press
Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.
- Copyright year: 2017
Word Toys
Poetry and Technics
University of Alabama Press
An engaging and thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects
- Copyright year: 2017
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
University of Alabama Press
Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801
- Copyright year: 2017
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas
University of Alabama Press
Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another
- Copyright year: 2017
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5
Edited by Ericha Shelton-Nix
University of Alabama Press
Collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012
- Copyright year: 2017
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Edited by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness; Introduction by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness
University of Alabama Press
A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies
- Copyright year: 2017
The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art
University of Alabama Press
In both his short fiction and major works, Nathaniel Hawthorne, like many romantics, is torn between the eighteenth-century view of an orderly, balanced, static art and universe, on the one hand, and the nineteenth-century conception of a changeful, various art on the other. Hawthorne based his social and psychological values on an organic view of the world, but the world of his art tended to be mechanistic. Johnson argues that Hawthorne found in theology the myths which became vehicles for his exploration of his art.
- Copyright year: 1981
John Archibald Campbell
Southern Moderate, 1811–1889
University of Alabama Press
The first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states’ rights
Alabama Afternoons
Profiles and Conversations
By Roy Hoffman
University of Alabama Press
A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman
Modernism the Morning After
By Bob Perelman
University of Alabama Press
Articulates a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future
- Copyright year: 2017
Earline's Pink Party
The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman
By Elizabeth Findley Shores; Introduction by Elizabeth Findley Shores
University of Alabama Press
In Earline’s Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family’s scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother’s life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast
University of Alabama Press
Explores the evolution of houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (ca. 200 BC to 1800 AD)
- Copyright year: 2017
On Strawberry Hill
The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling
By Paula Ivaska Robbins; Foreword by Char Miller
University of Alabama Press
While not a biography of legendary American forester and conservationist Gifford Pinchot, On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling explores a vital and transformative facet of his personal life that, until now, has remained relatively unknown.
- Copyright year: 2017
Forging Southeastern Identities
Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South
Edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith
University of Alabama Press
Forging Southeastern Identities explores the many ways archaeologists and ethnohistorians define and trace the origins of Native Americans’ collective social identity.
- Copyright year: 2017
Ecoviews Too
Ecology for All Seasons
University of Alabama Press
Ecoviews Too examines various human attitudes toward wildlife and the environment, focusing on seasonal occurrences and natural adaptations, in an engaging and informative manner.
- Copyright year: 2017
Calligraphy Typewriters
The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner
University of Alabama Press
The first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eigner’s most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousand poems that constitute his remarkable life’s work
- Copyright year: 2016
Taking Christianity to China
Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2017
Pecan
America's Native Nut Tree
By Lenny Wells
University of Alabama Press
Written in a manner suitable for a popular audience and including color photographs and recipes for some common uses of the nut, Pecan: America’s Native Nut Tree gathers scientific, historical, and anecdotal information to present a comprehensive view of the largely unknown story of the pecan.
- Copyright year: 2017
Going for Gold
The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
University of Alabama Press
Details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains the second largest gold miner in the world
- Copyright year: 2016
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work
The Making of "The Great Gatsby"
University of Alabama Press
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work probes the complex story behind the sources that inspired Fitzgerald, his writing of the novel, and the enduring legacy of The Great Gatsby.
- Copyright year: 2014
Come Landfall
A Novel
By Roy Hoffman
University of Alabama Press
Set along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Come Landfall tells the stories of three women and the men they love in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal.
The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character, tracing a chicken-scratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old age.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Ace of Lightning
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A collection of stories based on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which led to World War I
- Copyright year: 2017
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman
Stories
By Aimee Parkison; Foreword by Stephen Graham Jones
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic story collection of unusual brilliance and rare humor.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Essential Hayim Greenberg
Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
Edited by Mark A. Raider; Introduction by Mark A. Raider; Foreword by Paul Mendes-Flohr; By Hayim Greenberg
University of Alabama Press
This landmark collection showcases the writings of Hayim Greenberg, a founder of the Labor Zionist movement in America and a foremost writer, thinker, and activist in the fields of twentieth-century Jewish culture and politics.
- Copyright year: 2016
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