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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Civil War Alabama
By Christopher Lyle McIlwain; Foreword by G. Ward Hubbs
University of Alabama Press
In fascinating detail, Civil War Alabama reveals the forgotten breadth of political opinions and loyalties among white Alabamians during the antebellum period. The book offers a major reevaluation of Alabama’s secession crisis and path to war and destruction.
Turning the Tide
The University of Alabama in the 1960s
By Earl H. Tilford; Foreword by Jack Drake
University of Alabama Press
Turning the Tide is an institutional and cultural history of a dramatic decade of change at the University of Alabama set against the backdrop of desegregation, the continuing civil rights struggle, and the growing antiwar movement.
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales)
By Juan Carlos Flores; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) is a collection of prose poems dedicated to “the poetical resurrection of Alamar,” the neighborhood where Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores has lived for decades.
- Copyright year: 2016
Heightened Expectations
The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America
University of Alabama Press
Heightened Expectations explores the complex relationship between the history of the social stigmatization of short stature in boys and the rise of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone industry.
- Copyright year: 2016
Dismembering the American Dream
The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates
University of Alabama Press
Dismembering the American Dream offers a detailed study of the fiction of writer Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road. His novels and short stories explore mid-twentieth-century middle-class American life.
Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
University of Alabama Press
Continuing Bonds with the Dead explores the redemptive literary achievements of five nineteenth-century American authors who lost a son or daughter. In it, Harold K. Bush illuminates America’s evolving cultural attitudes about death and grief.
- Copyright year: 2016
Child Abuse in the Deep South
Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics
University of Alabama Press
This study of physical and sexual child abuse in the Deep South was designed to determine the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the state of Alabama, to identify the characteristics of confirmed child abuse, and to test the hypothesis that community size would contribute to a unique picture of the surveillance, reporting, and caseworker determination of abuse.
- Copyright year: 1988
After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Edited by Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller
University of Alabama Press
Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading
- Copyright year: 1985
Animal, Vegetable, Digital
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics
University of Alabama Press
An audacious, interdisciplinary study that combines the burgeoning fields of digital aesthetics and eco-criticism
- Copyright year: 2016
Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age
University of Alabama Press
Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age posits a framework for the scholarly community, policy makers, and lay readers for understanding the legal and military aspects of drone warfare.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
Edited by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
University of Alabama Press
The 2015 volume of Theatre History Studies presents a collection of five critical essays examining the intersection of theatre studies and historiography as well as twenty-five book reviews highlighting recent scholarship in this thriving field.
- Copyright year: 2015
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2015
Fabricating the People
Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State
University of Alabama Press
Fabricating the People boldly proposes post-representational governance that reframes the practice of modern democracy and reinvents the role of public administration.
- Copyright year: 2012
Experience
Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
University of Alabama Press
Norman Fischer’s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Story They Told Us of Light
Poems
By Rodney Jones
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1980
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
University of Alabama Press
Offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis
- Copyright year: 2015
Modern Organization
By Victor A. Thompson; Introduction by Victor A. Thompson
University of Alabama Press
In Modern Organization, Victor A. Thompson tackles arbitrary power structures and their hold over more specialized but less appreciated workers. The book is ultimately interested in righting dynamics between power and knowledge in the modern working world.
- Copyright year: 1961
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010
University of Alabama Press
Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006–2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation’s violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system
- Copyright year: 2015
St. Elmo
Or, Saved at Last
By Augusta Jane Evans; Introduction by Diane Roberts
University of Alabama Press
The top-selling novel by prolific Southern writer Augusta J. Evans, St. Elmo was more widely read in its day than Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel traces the relationship between a charming and charismatic lothario, St. Elmo, and the beautiful and chaste Edna Earl.
- Copyright year: 1992
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry
Edited by John P. Hermann and John J. Burke Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.
- Copyright year: 1981
In Service to American Pharmacy
The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Higby examines the professional life of William Procter, Jr., generally regarded as the “Father of American Pharmacy,” and follows the development of American pharmacy through four decades of Procter’s professional commitment to the field.
Haunted Presence
The Numinous in Gothic Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction explores the relationship between the Gothic mode of literature and modern studies in the psychology of religious experience, arguing in each case that the central motif is the numinous: the sense of wonder, mystery, and fascination that the human being historically experiences in encounters with the Divine.
- Copyright year: 1987
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War
From Creation to Betrayal
University of Alabama Press
Explores how the Creek War of 1813–1814 not only affected Creek Indians but also acted as a catalyst for deep cultural and political transformation within the society of the United States’ Cherokee allies
- Copyright year: 2015
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
University of Alabama Press
The essays in The Motherhood Business examine how consumer culture both constrains and empowers contemporary motherhood. The collection demonstrates that the logic of consumerism and entrepreneurship has redefined both the experience of mothering and the marketplace.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Politics of Trust
Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the extraordinary political career of Reubin Askew, governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979, under whose unorthodox leadership Florida undertook numerous successful reform initiatives
- Copyright year: 2015
The Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
University of Alabama Press
The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Astonishment Tapes
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends
By Robin Blaser; Edited by Miriam Nichols
University of Alabama Press
The edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser
- Copyright year: 2015
William March
An Annotated Checklist
University of Alabama Press
William March: An Annotated Checklist is the definitive resource for readers and scholars of southern writer William March, author of the best-selling Company K, The Bad Seed, and the Pearl County series.
- Copyright year: 1988
Turtles of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Turtles of Alabama pulls together new discoveries, research, and taxonomic changes that have occurred in herpetology within the state of Alabama since the 1975 publication of the now-classic volume Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama by Robert H. Mount.
- Copyright year: 2015
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 23
Theatre and Youth
Edited by David S. Thompson
University of Alabama Press
The essays in volume 23 of Theatre Symposium offer a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama.
- Copyright year: 2015
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