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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Fat Girl, Terrestrial
A Novel
By Kellie Wells
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love.
- Copyright year: 2012
Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
When you step inside Patrick Lawler’s Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds, you will find yourself hovering in the clouds, among a family and a town, and in the world of one of fiction’s most inventive writers.
- Copyright year: 2012
Enduring Motives
The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America
University of Alabama Press
Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Best Station of Them All
The Savannah Squadron, 1861-1865
University of Alabama Press
The Confederate Navy’s Savannah Squadron, its relationship with the people of Savannah, Georgia, and its role in the city’s economy
- Copyright year: 2012
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
University of Alabama Press
Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States
- Copyright year: 2012
On Captivity
A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898
By Manuel Ciges Aparicio; Translated by Dolores J. Walker; Foreword by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara; Edited by Dolores J. Walker; Introduction by Dolores J. Walker
University of Alabama Press
On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98).
- Copyright year: 2012
Warriors Without War
Seminole Leadership in the Late Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Warriors Without War takes readers beneath the placid waters of the Seminole’s public image and into the fascinating depths of Seminole society and politics.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be
Essays and Interviews
By Harryette Mullen; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press
The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen’s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women’s voices, and the future of poetry.
- Copyright year: 2012
My Father's War
Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
University of Alabama Press
My Father’s War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II.
- Copyright year: 2012
Populism in Latin America
Second Edition
Edited by Michael L. Conniff; Preface by Kenneth Roberts
University of Alabama Press
This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.
- Copyright year: 2012
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Edited by Kathryn H. Braund; Introduction by Kathryn H. Braund; Afterword by Ted Isham; Preface by Richard Evans; Foreword by Marianne Mills
University of Alabama Press, Pebble Hill Books
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
- Copyright year: 2012
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Edited by Keith Harper; Introduction by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press
Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
- Copyright year: 2012
Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast
Problems, Solutions, and Interpretations
University of Alabama Press
Representing work by a mixture of veterans and a new generation of lithic analysts, Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast explores fresh ideas while reworking and pushing the limits of traditional methods and hypotheses.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Will to Win
American Military Advisors in Korea, 1946–1953
University of Alabama Press
The Will to Win focuses on the substantial role of US military advisors to the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) from 1946 until 1953 in one of America’s early attempts at nation building.
- Copyright year: 2012
First Books
The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama
University of Alabama Press
This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.
Hearing the Hurt
Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement
University of Alabama Press
Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2012
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Edited by Janis P. Stout
University of Alabama Press
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times.
Survival Pending Revolution
The History of the Black Panther Party
University of Alabama Press
Although many have written about the BPP in memoirs and polemics, Survival Pending Revolution contributes to a new generation of objective, analytical BPP studies that are sorely needed.
Strange Bodies
Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
University of Alabama Press
Natural Aristocracy
History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner
By Kevin Railey
University of Alabama Press
Transitions
Legal Change, Legal Meanings
Edited by Austin Sarat; Introduction by Austin Sarat
University of Alabama Press
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.
- Copyright year: 2012
Patton's Pawns
The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line
University of Alabama Press
This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the fierce fighting between the 94th U.S. Infantry Division and their German counterparts during the spring of 1945 as Patton ordered his troops to break through the Siegfried Line. It sheds new light on the achievements of the outnumbered division in penetrating Germany’s Westwall. With characteristic verve and detail, Tony Le Tissier narrates the action and illuminates the tribulations and sacrifices of American soldiers who won their laurels at great cost.
On the Battlefield of Memory
The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941
By Steven Trout
University of Alabama Press
On the Battlefield of Memory by Steven Trout is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War.
The Metal Life Car
The Inventor, the Impostor, and the Business of Lifesaving
University of Alabama Press
Fascinating story of American ingenuity and its struggle against bureaucracy and chicanery
Flowing Through Time
A History of the Lower Chattahoochee River
University of Alabama Press
This handsome, illustrated book chronicles the history of the Lower Chattahoochee River and the people who lived along its banks from prehistoric Indian settlement to the present day.
By the Noble Daring of Her Sons
The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee
University of Alabama Press
A tale of ordinary Florida citizens who, during extraordinary times, were called to battle against their fellow countrymen
- Copyright year: 2012
Hemingway's Laboratory
The Paris in our time
University of Alabama Press
In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled in our time, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway’s story collection In Our Time. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates in Hemingway’s Laboratory, reveal a range of voices, narrative strategies, and fictional interests more wide-ranging and experimental than any other extant work of Hemingway’s. Further, they provide a vivid view of his earliest tendencies and influences, first manifestations of the style that would become his hallmark, and daring departures into narrative forms that he would forever leave behind.
- Copyright year: 2005
Blocton
The History of an Alabama Coal Mining Town
University of Alabama Press
Chronicles the history of a community built on coal
- Copyright year: 2012
Mieres Reborn
The Reinvention of a Catalan Community
University of Alabama Press
Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Cana Sanctuary
History, Diplomacy, and Black Catholic Marriage in Antebellum St. Augustine, Florida
University of Alabama Press
Uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of everyday people caught in the path of an expanding American empire
- Copyright year: 2012
Phenomenal Reading
Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large.
- Copyright year: 2012
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History
The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies.
- Copyright year: 2012
Barnstorming to Heaven
Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
By Alan J. Pollock; Edited by James A Riley
University of Alabama Press
The Indianapolis Clowns, sometimes referred to as the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, they captured the affection of Americans of all ethnicities and classes
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Edited by Wendy Reed and Jennifer Horne
University of Alabama Press
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Jackson County War
Reconstruction and Resistance in Post–Civil War Florida
University of Alabama Press
Offers original conclusions explaining why Jackson County became the bloodiest region in Reconstruction Florida
- Copyright year: 2012
Light without Heat
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Matthew Kirkpatrick’s debut, Light without Heat, is an inventive, surprising collection of short stories full of odd, marginal characters rendered with surreal humor and lyrical, often beautiful language.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Inquisitor's Tongue
A Novel
By Alan Singer
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Alan Singer’s riveting new novel, The Inquisitor’s Tongue, reimagines the Spanish Inquisition as a world in which spiritual horrors and acts of violence are the birth pangs of otherwise unimaginable identities.
- Copyright year: 2012
Old Havana / La Habana Vieja
Spirit of the Living City / El espíritu de la ciudad viva
University of Alabama Press
Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City artistically captures the architecture, people, and daily life of La Habana Vieja (Old Havana) through the lenses of two visionary photographers and colleagues, one American and the other Cuban.
- Copyright year: 2012
Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith
A Diptych
By Joanna Ruocco; Foreword by Ben Marcus
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Stark and vibrant, the two halves of this sutured book expose the Frankenstein-like scars of the assemblage we call “human”
- Copyright year: 2012
Darkroom
A Memoir in Black and White
University of Alabama Press
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author,Lila Quintero Weaver.
- Copyright year: 2012
Fitzgerald's Mentors
Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy
University of Alabama Press
A fresh and compelling study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s intellectual friendship with Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy
- Copyright year: 2012
True Faith and Allegiance
An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc
University of Alabama Press
An intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and a critique of the mishandling of America’s departure from Indochina
- Copyright year: 2012
The Other Movement
Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South
University of Alabama Press
Examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions
- Copyright year: 2012
Enduring Legacy
Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause
University of Alabama Press
Explores the crucial role of rhetoric and oratory in creating and propagating a “Lost Cause” public memory of the American South
- Copyright year: 2013
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945-1980
A Generation Reflects
Edited by Alice Beck Kehoe and Paul L. Doughty
University of Alabama Press
Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. During this time the discipline of anthropology itself came of age, expanding into diverse subfields, frequently on the initiative of individual practitioners. The Association of Senior Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) called upon a number of its leaders to give accounts of their particular innovations in the discipline. This volume is the result of the AAA venture—a set of primary documents on the history of American anthropology at a critical juncture.
- Copyright year: 2012
Poets Beyond the Barricade
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960
University of Alabama Press
A study of how poetry and discussions of it shape public consciousness, from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror today.
- Copyright year: 2012
Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists
Photographs by Jerry Siegel
By Jerry Siegel; Foreword by Marilyn Laufer
University of Alabama Press
A stunning portrait collection of some of the finest southern artists.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Modern Age
Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence
By Kent Baxter
University of Alabama Press
The Calusa
Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships
University of Alabama Press
Presents a full phonological and morphological analysis of the total corpus of surviving Calusa language data left by a literate Spanish captive held by the Calusa from his early youth to adulthood
- Copyright year: 2012
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoléon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801–1804
University of Alabama Press
A deeply researched and definitive account of the climactic battle at the end of the Haitian Revolution
- Copyright year: 2011
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