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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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 24
Theatre and Space
Edited by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press
Addresses “theatre and space” as a wide-ranging topic in theatre history, examining the myriad spatial arrangements, architectural styles, and historical contexts that inform theatrical productions, and the relationships of audiences to those spaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South
The Other Invisible Institution
University of Alabama Press
Macaulay challenges the prevailing belief that religion in the south developed solely through "revivalistic emotion" and not by religious rationalism.
Thomas Goode Jones
Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South
University of Alabama Press
Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Myth of Water
Poems from the Life of Helen Keller
University of Alabama Press
In The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller, Alabama poet Jeanie Thompson offers a rich collection of poems that form an illuminating first-person narrative through the life of writer and activist Helen Keller.
- Copyright year: 2016
Schooling Readers
Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Schooling Readers takes up a largely unexplored genre of fiction, the common school narrative, popular between 1830 and 1890. These stories both propagate and challenge the myth of the idyllic one-room school, and reveal Americans’ perceptions of and anxieties about public education, many of which still resonate today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza
By Ángel Escobar; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The best-known work by acclaimed Cuban poet Ángel Escobar
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
By Brett Ommen
University of Alabama Press
The Politics of the Superficial argues that the increasing volume of visually communicative surfaces in public life contributes to a very particular form of public imagination and political activity.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
By Ronald Berman; Introduction by Ronald Berman
University of Alabama Press
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz."
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders
University of Alabama Press
Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
- Copyright year: 2010
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work
- Copyright year: 2016
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
University of Alabama Press
How Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
By Alexander Z. Gurwitz; Edited by Bryan Edward Stone; Translated by Amram Prero; Introduction by Bryan Edward Stone; Preface by Alexander Z. Gurwitz
University of Alabama Press
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
- Copyright year: 2016
A Universal Theory of Pottery Production
Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography
University of Alabama Press
By an analysis of ceramic production, appendage, and decorative techniques at the Paso del Indio archaeological site in Puerto Rico, Richard A. Krause’s A Universal Theory of Pottery Production offers new insight into a classic theory of pottery manufacture by production steps and stages.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets—long a fixture of Western poetic tradition—is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more “real” entities of physical sex and desire.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fanning the Spark
A Memoir
University of Alabama Press
Fanning the Spark is the story of Mary Ward Brown's life as a writer—her upbringing in rural Alabama; the joys of college, marriage, and motherhood; the sorrows of becoming a widow; and a lifelong devotion to writing, writers, and literature, and the company of those who shared those loves, nurturing and feeding her interior life in the face of many challenges, losses, and obstacles, both emotional and material.
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Edited by Brigitta R. Brunner; Introduction by Brigitta R. Brunner
University of Alabama Press
Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities. They demonstrate the surprising and robust ways such programs bolster and enhance the mission of land-grant institutions.
- Copyright year: 2016
Canons by Consensus
Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies
By Joseph Csicsila; Foreword by Tom Quirk
University of Alabama Press
The first systematic analysis of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last century
Archaeopoetics
Word, Image, History
University of Alabama Press
Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge
- Copyright year: 2016
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America
An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court
University of Alabama Press
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America is the definitive biography of a Virginia legislator and jurist whose life and career mirror the transformational decades of US history between the War of 1812 and the end of the Mexican American War in 1848.
- Copyright year: 2016
Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam
The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America's Bloodiest Day
University of Alabama Press
Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam offers a definitive guide to the Confederate army’s primary engagements at the epic Battle of Antietam. With its companion volume about the Union side, Unfurl Those Colors!, the two provide a detailed chronicle of America’s bloodiest day.
- Copyright year: 2016
Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
By Candice Rai
University of Alabama Press
Traces the communication strategies of various constituencies in a Chicago neighborhood, offering insights into the challenges that beset diverse urban populations and demonstrating persuasively rhetoric’s power to illuminate and resolve charged conflicts
- Copyright year: 2016
The Village on the Plain
Auburn University, 1856–2006
By Dwayne Cox
University of Alabama Press
The Village on the Plain: Auburn University, 1856–2006 tells the story of the founding of Auburn University as a small private college and the tumultuous history of its growth and transformation into the complex institution it is today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Natural Wonders
A Novel
By Angela Woodward; Foreword by Stacey Levine
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Natural Wonders is a novel in the form of a series of lectures about the earth and its prehistory. In it, a grieving widow assembles an idiosyncratic history of the earth’s history based on her understanding and impressions of her deceased husband’s papers.
- Copyright year: 2016
Intimacy
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Intimacy is the story of an unnamed narrator ruminating on suicide. He reflects on the origins and significance of his material possessions, and on the seemingly inconsequential moments in his life, while he prepares to carry out his plans.
- Copyright year: 2016
Hex
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The debut novel by Sarah Blackman (award-winning author of Mother Box and Other Tales) Hex explores the ways one woman uses language and stories to rebuild her own shattered sense of self.
- Copyright year: 2016
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.
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