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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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
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba
A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898
University of Alabama Press
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba’s second War of Independence.
- Copyright year: 2017
Shot in Alabama
A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers
By Frances Osborn Robb; Preface by Frances Osborn Robb
University of Alabama Press
A sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941 offering a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium
- Copyright year: 2016
The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens
By Anca Rosu
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates that Wallace Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language.
Nationalizing a Borderland
War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920
University of Alabama Press
Examines the causes of the rise of xenophobic nationalism and antisemitic genocide in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia between 1914 and 1920.
Disturbing Indians
The Archaeology of Southern Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Disturbing Indians describes how William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, and Caroline Gordon reimagined and reconstructed the Native American past in their work.
- Copyright year: 2007
Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35
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: 2016
The World as Presence/El mundo como ser
University of Alabama Press
"Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry" (https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/announcing-the-2017-national-translation-award-longlists-for-poetry-and-prose/).
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets.
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets.
- Copyright year: 2016
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms
Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast
University of Alabama Press
Rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans
- Copyright year: 2016
The Eleventh House
Memoirs
By Hudson Strode; Introduction by Don Noble
University of Alabama Press
The Eleventh House is a remarkable memoir by an influential critic, teacher, world traveler, and raconteur whose sheer exuberance helped to form a network of literary friendships unparalleled in twentieth-century arts and letters. Hudson Strode—writer, gardener, gourmet, and world traveler—proceeds from his childhood home in Alabama to the international literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, recounting meetings with Eugene O'Neill, H. L. Mencken, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, the Prince of Wales, and the King of Sweden.
- Copyright year: 1975
The Domesticated Penis
How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates that not only natural selection but also female choice has played a key role in shaping male anatomy
Public Administration's Final Exam
A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline
University of Alabama Press
Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
By Allen Fisher; Foreword by Pierre Joris
University of Alabama Press
Imperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher’s remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole.
- Copyright year: 2016
Bonapartists in the Borderlands
French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835
University of Alabama Press
Discusses the ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America's westward expansion and the French Revolution
- Copyright year: 2005
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism
University of Alabama Press
Examines the origin, elements, and evolving significance of the “tides” in his discourse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Copyright year: 1994
Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature
University of Alabama Press
A multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both American music and literature from 1920 to 1929
- Copyright year: 2015
Alabama
The Making of an American State
University of Alabama Press
A thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama
- Copyright year: 2016
Edgar and Brigitte
A German Jewish Passage to America
By Rosemarie Bodenheimer; Afterword by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
University of Alabama Press
A consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding
- Copyright year: 2016
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
University of Alabama Press
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman
By Robert T. Hubard; Edited by Thomas P Nanzig
University of Alabama Press
A witness who brings remarkable life and color to the Civil War in the East
A Man's Game
Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism
By John Dudley
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism
Year of the Rat
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice.
- Copyright year: 2016
Exploring Wild Alabama
A Guide to the State's Publicly Accessible Natural Areas
University of Alabama Press
The most comprehensive guide available to Alabama’s publicly accessible natural destinations
- Copyright year: 2016
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson
University of Alabama Press
Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices explores the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology in popular culture and the ways that professional archaeologists can respond to sensationalized depictions of archaeology and archaeologists.
- Copyright year: 2016
Coming Out of War
Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars
University of Alabama Press
Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars is a wide-ranging and accessible account of American and British poetry, music, and visual art born of World War I and World War II. In it, Stout argues that poetry, of all the arts, most fully captures and conveys the modern culture of grief embodied by war experiences.
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle
University of Alabama Press
The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influence
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