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.
Transatlantic Scots
Stop the Presses (So I Can Get Off)
Tales from Forty Years of Sports Writing
A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
- Copyright year: 2005
What Begins with Bird
Fictions
Public Works
Short Fiction and a Novella
The short fictions collected in Public Works explore the extremes of human nature and literary technique.
- Copyright year: 2005
Michael Martone
Fictions
La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America
A cross-disciplinary view of an important De Soto chronicle.
- Copyright year: 2005
Benjamin Lloyd's Hymn Book
- Copyright year: 2005
The Clays of Alabama
A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Picture Taker
Photographs by Ken Elkins
This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist.
- Copyright year: 2005
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief
- Copyright year: 2005
President Johnson's War On Poverty
Rhetoric and History
Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy
Dissonance (if you are interested)
Dissonance (if you are interested) consists of Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology provides a politically and historically informed review of Cuban archaeology, from both American and Cuban perspectives.
- Copyright year: 2005
To the Far Side of Hell
The Battle for Peleliu, 1944
To the Far Side of Hell is the story of the World War II battle for the Pacific island of Peleliu in the autumn of 1944.
- Copyright year: 2005
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
- Copyright year: 2005
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse
Public Administration and the State
A Postmodern Perspective
A critical examination of public administration's pervasive vision of a powerful state
- Copyright year: 2005
Confederate Navy Chief
Stephen R. Mallory
The book tells of Stephen R. Mallory's support of naval inventions, strategy, and ideas. It also sheds light on the the successes and failures of Jefferson Davis. Durkin gives a well-balanced biography of Mallory and his life in the Confederate navy.
Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff, Stephen S. Renfroe
- Copyright year: 2005
This Is Called Moving
A Critical Poetics of Film
- Copyright year: 2005
Solfege, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation, and Music Theory
A Comprehensive Course
One of the most highly acclaimed resources for the study of ear training in music education today
- Copyright year: 1993
San Jacinto 1
A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia
A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who produced fiber-tempered ceramics.
- Copyright year: 2005
Rhetorical Women
Roles and Representations
- Copyright year: 2005
Making Medical Doctors
Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner
- Copyright year: 1987
Advancing American Art
Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century
- Copyright year: 2005
Caribbean Paleodemography
Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico
- Copyright year: 2005
Cannoneers in Gray
The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee
A highly regarded resource on a critical aspect of the Civil War
- Copyright year: 1989
Standing the Gaff
The Life and Hard Times of a Minor League Umpire
- Copyright year: 2005
A Blockaded Family
Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2005
The Westo Indians
Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South
A comprehensive study that rescues the Westo from obscurity.
- Copyright year: 2005
The Making of Saints
Contesting Sacred Ground
A multidisciplinary study of the commonalities between heroes, icons, saints, and their institutions, across several cultures.
- Copyright year: 2005
The Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia
- Copyright year: 2005
The Freedom Quilting Bee
Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement
The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend
- Copyright year: 2005
Public Libraries in Nazi Germany
National Socialist state control of a public institution.
Plains Earthlodges
Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives
A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains. This collection explores current research in the ethnography and archaeology of Plains earthlodges, and considers a variety of Plains tribes, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, and their late prehistoric period predecessors.
- Copyright year: 2005
Colonial Search For A Southern Eden
Colonial Search for a Southern Eden details how European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World.
The Americas That Might Have Been
Native American Social Systems through Time
- Copyright year: 2005
Forgetfulness
A Novel
The first part of Forgetfulness is a fictional monograph on the life of the Austrian modernist composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945).
- Copyright year: 2005
The Juarez Myth In Mexico
Old Mobile Archaeology
Archaeological excavations since 1989 have uncovered exciting evidence of the original townsite of Mobile, first capital of the Louisiana colony, and remnants of the colony's port on Dauphin Island.
- Copyright year: 2005
Transmitting the Past
Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting
- Copyright year: 2005
Satchel Paige's America
- Copyright year: 2005
Ethnographers In The Field
The Psychology of Research
A study of how doing field research submerged in a different culture impacts one's sense of identity.
Distant Reading
Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance—recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen—rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words.
- Copyright year: 2005
