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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Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship
University of Alabama Press
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society.
- Copyright year: 2013
F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.
- Copyright year: 2003
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross
Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South
University of Alabama Press
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt
Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax
By Molly Guptill Manning; Foreword by John Train
University of Alabama Press
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Darkness of the Present
Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly
University of Alabama Press
The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.
- Copyright year: 2012
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
University of Alabama Press
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
By Mark Newman
University of Alabama Press
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed
Frances Newman
Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel
University of Alabama Press
This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance
Germany in Central America
Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes the German role in Central American domestic and international relations
- Copyright year: 1999
Roosevelt the Reformer
Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895
University of Alabama Press
Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington
Party Organization and Activism in the American South
University of Alabama Press
Maps the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South
The Presidency and Public Policy
The Four Arenas of Presidential Power
University of Alabama Press
Southern Parties and Elections
Studies in Regional Political Change
University of Alabama Press
Clarifies the recent and dramatic development of party competition in the South
Red Eagle's Children
Weatherford vs. Weatherford et al.
University of Alabama Press
Red Eagle’s Children presents the legal proceedings in an inheritance dispute that serves as an unexpected window on the intersection of two cultural and legal systems: Creek Indian and Euro-American.
- Copyright year: 2012
An Uncompromising Secessionist
The Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eighth (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry
By George Knox Miller; Edited by Richard M. McMurry
University of Alabama Press
Offers significant insight into the life, heart, mind, and attitudes of an intelligent, educated, young mid-19th-century white Southerner
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
University of Alabama Press
Provides a penetrating analysis of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley
- Copyright year: 2012
Founding Fictions
University of Alabama Press
An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
Ferns of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A much-needed field guide to the more than 120 species of ferns and fern allies occurring naturally in the state
- Copyright year: 2012
The Disappearing South?
Studies in Regional Change and Continuity
University of Alabama Press
There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II—the essays in The Disappearing South address the ongoing debate
Swim for the Little One First
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Swim for the Little One First is a dazzling new collection of twelve short fictions by the acclaimed fiction writer and prose stylist Noy Holland.
- Copyright year: 2012
Sinclair Lewis Remembered
University of Alabama Press
Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize–winning American writer.
- Copyright year: 2012
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 20
Gods and Groundlings: Historical Theatrical Audiences
Edited by Edward Bert Wallace; Introduction by Edward Bert Wallace
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Theatre History Studies 2012, Vol. 32
Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Governing Narratives
Symbolic Politics and Policy Change
University of Alabama Press
By highlighting the degree to which meaning making in public policy is more a cultural struggle than a rational and analytical project, Governing Narratives brings public administration back into a political context.
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
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