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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The English Physician
By Nicholas Culpeper; Edited by Michael A. Flannery; Introduction by Michael A. Flannery; Footnotes by Michael A. Flannery
University of Alabama Press
The first medical book published in the American colonies
- Copyright year: 2007
Patterson for Alabama
The Life and Career of John Patterson
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2013
Mule South to Tractor South
Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South
University of Alabama Press
The adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor
- Copyright year: 2013
Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
University of Alabama Press
A fresh perspective on the interaction of religious ideals and social change in rural settlements of the Moravian colony of Wachovia.
- Copyright year: 2013
Debt, Investment, Slaves
Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885
By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne; Foreword by Gavin Wright
University of Alabama Press
Richard Kilbourne has produced a comprehensive study of the credit system in one Louisiana parish in the antebellum and postbellum periods of the Civil War. East Feliciana Parish was important in terms of both population and the large number of slaves. This book’s primary concern is the role of slave property in collateralizing credit relationships and planter perceptions regarding slaves as financial assets.
- Copyright year: 2013
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry within Alabama from colonial times to the present within the broader contexts of southern and American agricultural history
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
University of Alabama Press
Examines the qualitative nature of capitalism’s processes through the lens of social networks
- Copyright year: 2013
A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida
By Bernard Romans; Edited by Kathryn H. Braund
University of Alabama Press
Braund presents the only annotated edition of Bernard Romans's rare and valuable 18th-century account of his observations in the southeastern United States.
Once Human
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A stunning new collection of stories by a master fictionist, Once Human shows the ways to go beyond standard maps of simple understanding
- Copyright year: 2014
History of the University of Alabama
Volume One, 1818-1902
University of Alabama Press
A history of the University of Alabama from 1818 to 1902.
- Copyright year: 1953
Heart of Palms
My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla
By Meredith W. Cornett; Foreword by Florence Reed
University of Alabama Press
Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester.
- Copyright year: 2014
List
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hum
Stories
By Michelle Richmond; Foreword by Rikki Ducornet
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A new collection of stories by bestselling author Michelle Richmond, Hum presents a cautionary political fable, a celebration of the complexities of marriage, and a meditation on modern-day alienation.
- Copyright year: 2014
Theories of Forgetting
By Lance Olsen
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Island Called Paradise
Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts
University of Alabama Press
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
University of Alabama Press
Explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity
- Copyright year: 2013
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan
University of Alabama Press
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
- Copyright year: 2013
Quince Duncan
Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity
University of Alabama Press
Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica’s first novelist of African descent and one of the nation’s most esteemed contemporary writers.
- Copyright year: 2013
Panic Fiction
Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis
By Mary Templin
University of Alabama Press
Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class.
- Copyright year: 2014
Green Gold
Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries
University of Alabama Press
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama’s timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state.
- Copyright year: 2014
Contradiction and Conflict
The Popular Church in Nicaragua
By Debra Sabia
University of Alabama Press
Sabia examines the complex interaction of religious belief and political inspiration among internal divisions of Nicaragua's popular church.
- Copyright year: 2013
Contemporaries and Snobs
University of Alabama Press
This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash
J. Edgar Hoover and Florida's Lindbergh Case
University of Alabama Press
Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades.
- Copyright year: 2014
Artistic Liberties
American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905
University of Alabama Press
A landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism
- Copyright year: 2013
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers
- Copyright year: 2013
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories
Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable
By James Nagel
University of Alabama Press
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America.
- Copyright year: 2013
This Bright Light of Ours
Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
By Maria Gitin; Foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin
University of Alabama Press
Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965
- Copyright year: 2014
Secrecy and Insurgency
Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala
University of Alabama Press
Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents.
- Copyright year: 2014
Language Variety in the South Revisited
University of Alabama Press
Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South.
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 21
Ritual, Religion, and Theatre
Edited by Edward Bert Wallace
University of Alabama Press
Volume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual.
- Copyright year: 2013
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