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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Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
University of Alabama Press
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
- Copyright year: 2013
Jazz in the Time of the Novel
The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Jazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture’s understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices.
- Copyright year: 2013
Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Edited by Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman; Introduction by Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman
University of Alabama Press
Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico offers a novel approach to Mexican studies by considering the complex relationship between technology, politics, society, and culture.
- Copyright year: 2013
Mother Box and Other Tales
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The eleven stories and one novella of Mother Box, and Other Tales bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities.
- Copyright year: 2013
Eclipse of Empires
World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another.
- Copyright year: 2013
Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers
University of Alabama Press
Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture.
Rhetoric and the Republic
Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America
University of Alabama Press
Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.
- Copyright year: 2007
Race and Displacement
Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Maha Marouan and Merinda Simmons; Foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr.; Introduction by Philip D. Beidler; Afterword by Trudier Harris
University of Alabama Press
Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.
- Copyright year: 2013
Expectation
A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.
- Copyright year: 2013
From a Love of History
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama
By Stephen M. Rowe; Foreword by Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces one of the most important archives of southern history and literature ever gathered in one place.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Life of Selina Campbell
A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration
University of Alabama Press
This first biography of Selina Campbell opens a window onto the experience of women in one of the most dynamic religious groups of 19th-century America
- Copyright year: 2001
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"Fear God and Walk Humbly"
The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877
University of Alabama Press
A detailed journal of local, national, and foreign news, agricultural activities, the weather, and family events, from an uncommon Southerner
- Copyright year: 1997
Laboring to Play
Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
University of Alabama Press
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time.
The University of Alabama
A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture
University of Alabama Press
The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campusand Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries.
- Copyright year: 2013
Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes
University of Alabama Press
Explores the relationship between indigenous people, the management of natural resources, and the development process in a modernizing region of Chile
- Copyright year: 2013
We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple
Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism
University of Alabama Press
By focusing on Roosevelt’s rhetorical constructions of national identity, as opposed to his personal exploits or his role as a policy maker, We Are All Americans offers new insights into Roosevelt’s use of public discourse to bind the nation together during one of the most polarized periods in its history.
- Copyright year: 2008
A Florida Fiddler
The Life and Times of Richard Seaman
University of Alabama Press
A musical life as glorious metaphor for Florida's cultural landscape
- Copyright year: 2007
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
University of Alabama Press
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.
- Copyright year: 2013
From Princess to Chief
Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina
University of Alabama Press
A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina.
- Copyright year: 2013
An Alabama Songbook
Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals Collected by Byron Arnold
University of Alabama Press
A lavish presentation of 208 folksongs collected throughout Alabama in the 1940s
Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Rabbi Max Heller
Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
University of Alabama Press
This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.
When Colleges Sang
The Story of Singing in American College Life
University of Alabama Press
When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.
- Copyright year: 2013
Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had
The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley
University of Alabama Press
This rare correspondence between a soldier and his wife relates in poignant detail the struggle for survival on the battlefield as well as on the home front and gives voice to the underrepresented class of small farmers
- Copyright year: 2002
After Wallace
The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness
- Copyright year: 2009
Head Masters
Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
University of Alabama Press
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced
- Copyright year: 2005
Stubborn Poetries
Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde
University of Alabama Press
Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon.
- Copyright year: 2013
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
By Ira Wells
University of Alabama Press
An entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters
- Copyright year: 2013
The Irony of the Solid South
Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944
University of Alabama Press
The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the Democratic Party andhow that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II.
- Copyright year: 2013
Frank Norris Remembered
Edited by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath
University of Alabama Press
Frank Norris Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by Norris’s contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of America’s most popular novelists.
- Copyright year: 2013
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