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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Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism

The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

University of Alabama Press
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Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin

A Collection of Words

By William A. Read; Introduction by George M. Riser
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of Indian Places Names in Alabama and Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names, this volume completes the republication of the southern place name writings of William A. Read.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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A New Vision for Missions

William Cameron Townsend, The Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945

University of Alabama Press

A deep biography of the pioneering missionary William Cameron Townsend

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Conflict in the Great Outdoors

Toward Understanding and Managing for Diverse Sportsmen Preferences

By Hobson Bryan; Foreword by David Scott
University of Alabama Press

Conflict in the Great Outdoors addresses the different orientations and behaviors within sportsmen categories.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Alabama Blast Furnaces

University of Alabama Press

Go to resource on all the furnaces that made Alabama internationally significant in the iron and steel industry
 

  • Copyright year: 2007
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American Denominational History

Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future

Edited by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press

Brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Moundville

University of Alabama Press


Moundville tells the story of the ancient people who lived there, the modern struggle to save the site from destruction, and the scientific saga of the archaeologists who brought the story to life. Moundville is the book to read before, during, or after a visit to Alabama’s prehistoric metropolis

  • Copyright year: 2008
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King

The Social Archaeology of a Late Mississippian Town in Northwestern Georgia

University of Alabama Press

The King site represents a nearly ideal opportunity to identify the kinds of status positions that were held by individual inhabitants; analyze individual households and investigate the roles they played in King site society; reconstruct the community that existed at King, including size, life history, symbolic associations, and integrative mechanisms; and place King in the larger regional political system.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Gone to the Swamp

Raw Materials for the Good Life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

This fascinating and instructive book is the careful and unpretentious account of a man who was artful in all the skills needed to survive and raise a family in an area where most people would be lost or helpless. Smith’s story is an important record of a way of life beginning to disappear, a loss not fully yet realized. We are lucky to have a work that is both instructive and warm-hearted and that preserves so much hard-won knowledge.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 16

Comedy Tonight!

Edited by Jay Malarcher
University of Alabama Press

Comedy Tonight! in Volume 16 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium illustrate well the range of material that falls under the heading "comedy" as it is played on stage.
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Theatre History Studies 2008, Vol. 28

University of Alabama Press

Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Alphabet

University of Alabama Press

A remarkable and notorious literary achievement

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Bruise

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
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Ledfeather

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been, but what will be

  • Copyright year: 2008
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La Medusa

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
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Freshwater Mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive accounting of the richest mussel fauna in the US

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia

The Drums of Life

University of Alabama Press

Through interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, Whitlock provides first person accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Time's River

Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley

University of Alabama Press

An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbance

  • Copyright year: 2008
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African Americans in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877

University of Alabama Press

Exploration of African American contributions to the state of Florida during the era of Reconstruction

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist

Selected Writings on Revolution, Recognition, and Race

University of Alabama Press

An immigrant to Mobile from Switzerland becomes a passionate promoter of the Confederacy

  • Copyright year: 2008
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America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945

University of Alabama Press

A meticulously researched and lively account of the secret development of the renowned Norden bombsight and its relationship to American strategic bombing doctrine and practice. 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Pre-Columbian Jamaica

University of Alabama Press

Pre-Columbian Jamaica represents the first substantial attempt to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island in a single published account since J. E. Duerden’s invaluable 1897 article on the subject, which is also reprinted within this volume.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Song of Tides

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The Calusa's historic repulsion of 16th-century Spanish occupiers

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Old Beloved Path

Daily Life amond the Indians of the Chattahooche River Valley

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The Old Beloved Path provides an engaging and authoritative introduction to the lives of native Americans in the Chattahoochee river region.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Area and Administration

By James W. Fesler; Introduction by Donald F. Kettl
University of Alabama Press

An updated classic of public administration
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Looking for Lost Lore

Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography

University of Alabama Press

Folklore as a serious adjunct to history, anthropology, and religious studies

  • Copyright year: 2008
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In the Path of the Storms

Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast

University of Alabama Press, Pebble Hill Books

In the Path of the Storms is touching and heroic portrait of two Alabama Gulf Coast communities.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Battle

The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat

Edited by Kent Gramm
University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays that reveals the reality of war behind the pageantry of the American Civil War

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Archaeology and Geoinformatics

Case Studies from the Caribbean

Edited by Basil A. Reid
University of Alabama Press

Provides tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Full Fathom Five

A Daughter's Search

University of Alabama Press

One woman’s quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea

  • Copyright year: 2008
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It's a New Day

Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement

University of Alabama Press

Examines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society

  • Copyright year: 2008
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America's Battalion

Marines in the First Gulf War

University of Alabama Press

Tells the experiences of one unit, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, during Operation Desert Storm
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Unfurl Those Colors!

McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign

University of Alabama Press

Traces the engrossing story of the Union Army’s strategies, stratagems, and movements on the bloodiest day in American military history
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Crossing the Borders

New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean

University of Alabama Press

Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Yucatan in an Era of Globalization

University of Alabama Press

This work describes the profound changes to Yucatán’s society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico’s economy.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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To the Boathouse

A Memoir

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

To the Boathouse is the memoir of a southern girl and her maturing sense of self as she grows to become one of the most prolific and accomplished writers and critics of our day. Mary Ann Caws recounts the tangled relationships of her family, and her own ties to her sister, parents, and the grandmother—a painter—who served as her role model for a life of passionate engagement.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Creating Community

Life and Learning at Alabama State University

University of Alabama Press

Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville

University of Alabama Press

Defines household composition and social relationships at Moundville
 

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Jubal Early's Raid on Washington

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
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The Trouble with Being Born

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A fierce portrait of memory, family, and regret

The Trouble with Being Born is a stark meditation on memory and the struggle–both necessary and impossible–to remember.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Standing Before the Shouting Mob

Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public School Integration

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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My Amputations

By Clarence Major; Introduction by W. Lawrence Hogue
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Originally published in 1986, this new edition returns to print a classic, influential work of American fiction

  • Copyright year: 1986
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Looking South

The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975

University of Alabama Press

In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious proselytization, economic enterprise, and military conquest." Delpar, consequently, aims her considerable gaze back at those Americans and the story behind their longtime fascination with Latin American culture. By visiting seminal works and the cultures from which they emerged, following the effects of changes in scholarly norms and political developments on the training of students, and evaluating generations of scholarship in texts, monographs, and journal articles, Delpar illuminates the growth of scholarly inquiry into Latin American history, anthropology, geography, political science, economics, sociology, and other social science disciplines.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Kissssss

A Miscellany

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

This collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

University of Alabama Press

Investigates the development of hypotheses about how West African, possibly Igbo, cultural traditions were maintained and transformed in the Virginia Chesapeake
 

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The Nature of an Ancient Maya City

Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

University of Alabama Press

Reveals what daily Maya life was like

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Ancient Maya Traders of Ambergris Caye

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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SunWatch

Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World

University of Alabama Press

Focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social change

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Framing Public Memory

University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Stand Up for Alabama

Governor George Wallace

University of Alabama Press

Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, comprehensive, and analytical study of Wallace’s political life that emphasizes his activities and their impact within the state of Alabama. Jeff Frederick examines the development of policy during the Wallace administrations and documents relationships with his constituents in ways that go beyond racial politics. He also analyzes the connections between Wallace’s career and Alabamians’ understanding of their history, sense of morality, and class system.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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