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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Doc
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
By Frank Adams and Burgin Mathews
University of Alabama Press
Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself.
The Foreign and Domestic Dimensions of Modern Warfare
Vietnam, Central America, and Nuclear Strategy
Edited by Howard Mumford Jones
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the nuclear arms race and the dangers arising with the advent of “limited warfare
- Copyright year: 1988
Friendship Fictions
The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
University of Alabama Press
Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual’s participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.
Between Home and Homeland
Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany
University of Alabama Press
The emigration of Jewish teenagers to Palestine to escape Hitler’s Germany
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
University of Alabama Press
A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida
- Copyright year: 1989
Time in the Barrel
A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien
University of Alabama Press
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War
- Copyright year: 2019
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 26
In Other Habits: Theatrical Costume
Edited by Sarah McCarroll; Introduction by Sarah McCarroll
University of Alabama Press
A substantive exploration of theatrical costume
- Copyright year: 2018
Desiring the Bomb
Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age
University of Alabama Press
A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age
- Copyright year: 2019
Southeastern Grasslands
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Management
Edited by JoVonn G. Hill and John A. Barone
University of Alabama Press
A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data
- Copyright year: 2019
Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent
Edited by Brad H. Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat
University of Alabama Press
Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America
- Copyright year: 2019
Elizabeth Robins, 1862–1952
Actress, Novelist, Feminist
University of Alabama Press
Robins’s writing on behalf of women’s rights issues in the first quarter of the twentieth century represents an important contribution to feminist politics
- Copyright year: 1994
Deep in the Piney Woods
Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800–1865
University of Alabama Press
A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama’s most overlooked and least studied regions
- Copyright year: 2018
A Centennial Celebration of the Bright Star Restaurant
By Bright Star Restaurant, Inc.
University of Alabama Press
Traces the founding of the restaurant in 1907 and the family that continues the tradition of fine food and genuine hospitality that began there a century ago
Triumph of the Dead
American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France
University of Alabama Press
An investigation into the relationship between history, art, architecture, memory, and diplomacy
- Copyright year: 2018
Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast
Approaches to Bridging Health and Identity in the Past
University of Alabama Press
A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States
- Copyright year: 2018
Almost Family
35th Anniversary Edition
By Roy Hoffman; Foreword by Roy Hoffman
University of Alabama Press
The complex friendship between a black housekeeper and her Jewish employer is at the heart of Hoffman’s prize-winning novel about life in the civil rights era South
- Copyright year: 2018
The Moon over Wapakoneta
Fictions and Science Fictions from Indiana and Beyond
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Lyric fictions by a master fabulist of America’s Midwest
- Copyright year: 2018
Alabama
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
University of Alabama Press
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial
- Copyright year: 2018
Thomas Wolfe Remembered
Edited by Mark Canada and Nami Montgomery
University of Alabama Press
A collection of reminiscences captures the private life of a great American writer.
- Copyright year: 2018
Big City
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A fiction of the city as a chorus of voices, an entity that is both one and many
- Copyright year: 2018