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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An Uncompromising Secessionist
The Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eighth (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry
By George Knox Miller; Edited by Richard M. McMurry
University of Alabama Press
Offers significant insight into the life, heart, mind, and attitudes of an intelligent, educated, young mid-19th-century white Southerner
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
University of Alabama Press
Provides a penetrating analysis of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley
- Copyright year: 2012
Founding Fictions
University of Alabama Press
An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
Ferns of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A much-needed field guide to the more than 120 species of ferns and fern allies occurring naturally in the state
- Copyright year: 2012
The Disappearing South?
Studies in Regional Change and Continuity
University of Alabama Press
There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II—the essays in The Disappearing South address the ongoing debate
Swim for the Little One First
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Swim for the Little One First is a dazzling new collection of twelve short fictions by the acclaimed fiction writer and prose stylist Noy Holland.
- Copyright year: 2012
Sinclair Lewis Remembered
University of Alabama Press
Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize–winning American writer.
- Copyright year: 2012
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 20
Gods and Groundlings: Historical Theatrical Audiences
Edited by Edward Bert Wallace; Introduction by Edward Bert Wallace
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Theatre History Studies 2012, Vol. 32
Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2012
Governing Narratives
Symbolic Politics and Policy Change
University of Alabama Press
By highlighting the degree to which meaning making in public policy is more a cultural struggle than a rational and analytical project, Governing Narratives brings public administration back into a political context.
- Copyright year: 2012
Fat Girl, Terrestrial
A Novel
By Kellie Wells
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love.
- Copyright year: 2012
Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
When you step inside Patrick Lawler’s Rescuers of Skydivers Search Among the Clouds, you will find yourself hovering in the clouds, among a family and a town, and in the world of one of fiction’s most inventive writers.
- Copyright year: 2012
Enduring Motives
The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America
University of Alabama Press
Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Best Station of Them All
The Savannah Squadron, 1861-1865
University of Alabama Press
The Confederate Navy’s Savannah Squadron, its relationship with the people of Savannah, Georgia, and its role in the city’s economy
- Copyright year: 2012
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
University of Alabama Press
Undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States
- Copyright year: 2012
On Captivity
A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898
By Manuel Ciges Aparicio; Translated by Dolores J. Walker; Foreword by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara; Edited by Dolores J. Walker; Introduction by Dolores J. Walker
University of Alabama Press
On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98).
- Copyright year: 2012
Warriors Without War
Seminole Leadership in the Late Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Warriors Without War takes readers beneath the placid waters of the Seminole’s public image and into the fascinating depths of Seminole society and politics.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be
Essays and Interviews
By Harryette Mullen; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press
The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen’s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women’s voices, and the future of poetry.
- Copyright year: 2012
My Father's War
Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
University of Alabama Press
My Father’s War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II.
- Copyright year: 2012
Populism in Latin America
Second Edition
Edited by Michael L. Conniff; Preface by Kenneth Roberts
University of Alabama Press
This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.
- Copyright year: 2012
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Edited by Kathryn H. Braund; Introduction by Kathryn H. Braund; Afterword by Ted Isham; Preface by Richard Evans; Foreword by Marianne Mills
University of Alabama Press, Pebble Hill Books
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
- Copyright year: 2012
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Edited by Keith Harper; Introduction by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press
Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
- Copyright year: 2012
Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast
Problems, Solutions, and Interpretations
University of Alabama Press
Representing work by a mixture of veterans and a new generation of lithic analysts, Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast explores fresh ideas while reworking and pushing the limits of traditional methods and hypotheses.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Will to Win
American Military Advisors in Korea, 1946–1953
University of Alabama Press
The Will to Win focuses on the substantial role of US military advisors to the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) from 1946 until 1953 in one of America’s early attempts at nation building.
- Copyright year: 2012
First Books
The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama
University of Alabama Press
This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels.
Hearing the Hurt
Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement
University of Alabama Press
Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2012
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Edited by Janis P. Stout
University of Alabama Press
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which Cather did participate in her culture and to correct the commonplace view of her as a literary connoisseur set apart from her times.
Survival Pending Revolution
The History of the Black Panther Party
University of Alabama Press
Although many have written about the BPP in memoirs and polemics, Survival Pending Revolution contributes to a new generation of objective, analytical BPP studies that are sorely needed.
Strange Bodies
Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
University of Alabama Press
Natural Aristocracy
History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner
By Kevin Railey
University of Alabama Press
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