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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Second Front Now--1943

An Opportunity Delayed

University of Alabama Press

Addresses head-on the central issue of invasion timing in the Allied European strategy of World War II

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Christian Reconstruction

The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890

University of Alabama Press

Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Great War in the Air

Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921

University of Alabama Press

"A comprehensive study of the totality of the air war in its military, political, industrial, and cultural aspects distinguish this book from other treatments of military aviation during this period. . . . Morrow's efforts have yielded new insights into the evolution of military aviation and corrected previous oversights. The author's attention to developments in production and logistics, as well as events at the front, provide the most complete understanding of the development of air power and its role in the Great War."--American Historical Review

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Public Indians, Private Cherokees

Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground

University of Alabama Press

Explores the major economic industry among American Indian tribes—public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues

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Heritage or Heresy

Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera

University of Alabama Press

Through analysis of seven archaeological sites on the Yucatan peninsula that are open to heritage touring, Walker reveals the planned growth of the Maya Riviera since the early 1970s and examines the impact of international tourism on both ancient structures and the contemporary Maya people and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Speaking with the Ancestors

Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region

University of Alabama Press

During the last twenty years the authors have researched over 88 possible examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago, and discovered along the river valleys of the interior Southeast. Independently and in conjunction, they have measured, analyzed, photographed, and traced the known history of the 42 that appear in this volume.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Digital Poetics

Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media

University of Alabama Press

Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry
 

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism

Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer and Mark A. Noll; Introduction by Stephen Marini
University of Alabama Press

The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Making Pictures in Stone

American Indian Rock Art of the Northeast

University of Alabama Press

A full range of rock art appearances, including dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain on the Move

A Travel Reader

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Poetics & Polemics

1980-2005

By Jerome Rothenberg; Edited by Steven Clay; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press

Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American and international poetry today.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Inconstant Companions

Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions

University of Alabama Press

One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—the role of oral tradition in scientific research.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Assault on Progress

Technology and Time in American Literature

University of Alabama Press

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for Best Manuscript in American Literature

  • Copyright year: 2008
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King Cotton Diplomacy

Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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First Freedom

The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction

University of Alabama Press

Classic study of the history of post-slave societies

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Talking Taino

Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Transformation of the Christian Right in the 1980s

University of Alabama Press

The Transformation of the Christian Right chronicles and analyzes the remarkable changes that have occurred in the Christian Right from its emergence in the late 1970s to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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There's Hope for the World

The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Great War in the Heart of Dixie

Alabama During World War I

University of Alabama Press

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced?

  • Copyright year: 2008
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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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