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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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
Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections
An Annotated Bibliography
University of Alabama Press
This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War–related manuscript collection stored in Georgia’s many repositories. With this guide in hand, researchers will no longer spend countless hours pouring through online catalogs, emailing archivists, and wondering if they have exhausted every lead in their pursuit of firsthand information about the war and the experiences of those who lived through and were impacted by it.
- Copyright year: 2011
Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie
University of Alabama Press
Thomas Jefferson Cypert (1827-1918) was a staunch Union man in one of the most Confederate areas of Tennessee, and became Captain of Company A in the 2nd Regiment, Mounted Infantry, U.S. Tennessee Volunteers. After the war, he served at least one term in the Tennessee State Senate. He wrote this manuscript for publication to defend his stance and recount his wartime experiences. It was never published, and has existed in his family in manuscript form until now.
- Copyright year: 2011
José de Bustamante and Central American Independence
Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis
University of Alabama Press
The first full-length study of a significant figure of the Spanish Enlightenment
Building a Nation
Chickasaw Museums and the Construction of History and Heritage
University of Alabama Press
Using museum and heritage sites as places to define itself as a coherent and legitimate contemporary Indian nation, the Chickasaw Nation struggles to remain accurate and yet apace with the evolving nature of museums
- Copyright year: 2011
Reborn in America
French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815-1865
By Eric Saugera; Translated by Madeleine Velguth
University of Alabama Press
The rich detail presented in this story adds a great deal to what we know of ante-bellum Alabama and the international intrigues of the decades after Napoleon’s final defeat, and sheds light as well on the other less glamorous refugees, planters fleeing from the revolution in Haiti, whose interest was much more purely agricultural, and whose lasting influence on the region was far more durable.
- Copyright year: 2011
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 19
Theatre and Film
Edited by J K Curry
University of Alabama Press
The essays in Theatre Symposium: Volume 19 shed light on the current state of affairs—the collaborations and the tensions—between two distinctly individual yet inextricably related artistic media: theatre and film.
- Copyright year: 2011
Theatre History Studies 2011, Vol. 31
Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2011
The Poisoned Chalice
Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism
University of Alabama Press
Examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years
Islands at the Crossroads
Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean
Edited by L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser
University of Alabama Press
The contributors to Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and layered ways in which both distant and more intimate sociocultural, political, and economic interactions have shaped Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent times.
- Copyright year: 2011
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
University of Alabama Press
In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have waged an ethical debate regarding the development and research of embryonic stem cells. On the one hand, does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? On the other hand, do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm the patients who might otherwise benefit?
- Copyright year: 2011
Money and Modernity
Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
By Alec Marsh
University of Alabama Press
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.
Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
This volume addresses the problem of how Caribbean nations deal with the challenges of protecting their cultural heritages or patrimonies within the context of pressing economic development concerns.
- Copyright year: 2011
Imagining Legality
Where Law Meets Popular Culture
Edited by Austin Sarat
University of Alabama Press
Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image—that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Voice of the River
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The search for a missing boy and his dog illuminiates the inner lives of a multitude of individuals with charged needs and desires; a confession of faith, and a love song to the world.
- Copyright year: 2011
W. C. Handy
The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
University of Alabama Press
David Robertson charts W. C. Handy’s rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2011
As If a Bird Flew By Me
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Two women, separated by time and place, yoked by heritage and history
- Copyright year: 2011
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Edited by Kendall R. Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes
University of Alabama Press
Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.
- Copyright year: 2011
Thirteen Loops
Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
University of Alabama Press
A vivid and troubling portrait of violence, lynching, and race relations over a fifty-year period in the state of Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2011
Four for a Quarter
Fictions
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Four is the magic number in Michael Martone’s Four for a Quarter. In subject—four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four—and in structure—the book is separated into four sections, with each section further divided into four chapterettes—Four for a Quarter returns again and again to its originating number, making chaos comprehensible and mystery out of the most ordinary.
- Copyright year: 2011
Keeping the Faith
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
By Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
Wayne Flynt tells the story of his life and his courageous battles against an indifferent or hostile power structure with modesty but always with honesty. In doing so he tells us the story of how Alabama institutions really are manipulated, and why we should care.
- Copyright year: 2011
Sold Down the River
Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
By Anthony Gene Carey; Other primary creator Historic Chattahoochee Historic Chattahoochee Commission
University of Alabama Press
Examines a small part of slavery’s North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia
- Copyright year: 2011
The Kings of Casino Park
Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
University of Alabama Press
Aiello addresses long-held misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the Louisiana Monarchs black baseball team’s 1932 season. He tells the almost-unknown story of the team—its time, its fortunes, its hometown—and positions black baseball in the context of American racial discrimination. He illuminates the culture-changing power of a baseball team and the importance of sport in cultural and social history.
- Copyright year: 2011
For the Love of Alabama
Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson
University of Alabama Press
For the Love of Alabama is a compilation of the most poignant and trenchant writing—editorials, reportage, and columns—by two of Alabama’s most committed and reform-minded journalists. Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson both died young: Casey at forty-eight and Thomson at fifty-four. Nevertheless, through their work at the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register, respectively, they labored tirelessly to illuminate and confront the state’s chronic and interrelated problems of race, government, education, and poverty.
- Copyright year: 2011
Year of the Pig
University of Alabama Press
Year of the Pig is a personal journal of one avid hunter's pursuit of wild pigs in eleven American states during the Chinese calendar's "Year of the Pig" (2007).
- Copyright year: 2011
A Soldier's Story of His Regiment (61st Georgia)
And Incidentally of the Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade Army of Northern Virginia
Introduction by Keith S. Bohannon; By George Washington Nichols
University of Alabama Press
One of the classic narratives of front line infantry service in the Army of Northern Virginia
- Copyright year: 2011
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