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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Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars

Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare

University of Alabama Press

Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Early Alabama

An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798–1826

University of Alabama Press

An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state’s origins

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

University of Alabama Press

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment

  • Copyright year: 2019
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A Century of Controversy

Constitutional Reform in Alabama

University of Alabama Press

A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Send the Alabamians

World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division

University of Alabama Press

Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.

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Presumptions and Burdens of Proof

An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law

University of Alabama Press

An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Wolfhounds and Polar Bears

The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920

University of Alabama Press

Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's (AEF) deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Stuff of Our Forebears

Willa Cather's Southern Heritage

University of Alabama Press

Connecting Cather's work to the southern literary tradition and the South of her youth

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The Mark of Criminality

Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop

  • Copyright year: 2017
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene

University of Alabama Press

A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers

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Educating the Sons of Sugar

Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana

University of Alabama Press

A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite

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Citizen Science in the Digital Age

Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement

University of Alabama Press

A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection

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A New Vision of Southern Jewish History

Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility

University of Alabama Press

Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Standing Watch

American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era

University of Alabama Press

The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War

  • Copyright year: 2019
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John Abbot and William Swainson

Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration

University of Alabama Press

An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Alexander Hamilton's Public Administration

University of Alabama Press

Examines how Hamilton’s thoughts and experiences about public administration theory and practice have shaped the nation

  • Copyright year: 2019
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A Cuban City, Segregated

Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Trial Films on Trial

Law, Justice, and Popular Culture

University of Alabama Press

A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Kurt Vonnegut Remembered

Edited by Jim O'Loughlin
University of Alabama Press

A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of Slaughterhouse-Five

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Planning the Urban Region

A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations

University of Alabama Press

Provides a comparative framework for analyzing issues of urban planning and government

  • Copyright year: 1982
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