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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America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945

University of Alabama Press

A meticulously researched and lively account of the secret development of the renowned Norden bombsight and its relationship to American strategic bombing doctrine and practice. 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Pre-Columbian Jamaica

University of Alabama Press

Pre-Columbian Jamaica represents the first substantial attempt to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island in a single published account since J. E. Duerden’s invaluable 1897 article on the subject, which is also reprinted within this volume.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Song of Tides

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The Calusa's historic repulsion of 16th-century Spanish occupiers

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Old Beloved Path

Daily Life amond the Indians of the Chattahooche River Valley

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The Old Beloved Path provides an engaging and authoritative introduction to the lives of native Americans in the Chattahoochee river region.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Area and Administration

By James W. Fesler; Introduction by Donald F. Kettl
University of Alabama Press

An updated classic of public administration
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Looking for Lost Lore

Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography

University of Alabama Press

Folklore as a serious adjunct to history, anthropology, and religious studies

  • Copyright year: 2008
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In the Path of the Storms

Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast

University of Alabama Press, Pebble Hill Books

In the Path of the Storms is touching and heroic portrait of two Alabama Gulf Coast communities.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Battle

The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat

Edited by Kent Gramm
University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays that reveals the reality of war behind the pageantry of the American Civil War

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Archaeology and Geoinformatics

Case Studies from the Caribbean

Edited by Basil A. Reid
University of Alabama Press

Provides tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Full Fathom Five

A Daughter's Search

University of Alabama Press

One woman’s quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea

  • Copyright year: 2008
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It's a New Day

Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement

University of Alabama Press

Examines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society

  • Copyright year: 2008
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America's Battalion

Marines in the First Gulf War

University of Alabama Press

Tells the experiences of one unit, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, during Operation Desert Storm
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Unfurl Those Colors!

McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign

University of Alabama Press

Traces the engrossing story of the Union Army’s strategies, stratagems, and movements on the bloodiest day in American military history
 

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Crossing the Borders

New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean

University of Alabama Press

Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Yucatan in an Era of Globalization

University of Alabama Press

This work describes the profound changes to Yucatán’s society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico’s economy.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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To the Boathouse

A Memoir

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

To the Boathouse is the memoir of a southern girl and her maturing sense of self as she grows to become one of the most prolific and accomplished writers and critics of our day. Mary Ann Caws recounts the tangled relationships of her family, and her own ties to her sister, parents, and the grandmother—a painter—who served as her role model for a life of passionate engagement.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Creating Community

Life and Learning at Alabama State University

University of Alabama Press

Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville

University of Alabama Press

Defines household composition and social relationships at Moundville
 

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Jubal Early's Raid on Washington

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Trouble with Being Born

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A fierce portrait of memory, family, and regret

The Trouble with Being Born is a stark meditation on memory and the struggle–both necessary and impossible–to remember.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Standing Before the Shouting Mob

Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public School Integration

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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My Amputations

By Clarence Major; Introduction by W. Lawrence Hogue
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Originally published in 1986, this new edition returns to print a classic, influential work of American fiction

  • Copyright year: 1986
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Looking South

The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975

University of Alabama Press

In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious proselytization, economic enterprise, and military conquest." Delpar, consequently, aims her considerable gaze back at those Americans and the story behind their longtime fascination with Latin American culture. By visiting seminal works and the cultures from which they emerged, following the effects of changes in scholarly norms and political developments on the training of students, and evaluating generations of scholarship in texts, monographs, and journal articles, Delpar illuminates the growth of scholarly inquiry into Latin American history, anthropology, geography, political science, economics, sociology, and other social science disciplines.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Kissssss

A Miscellany

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

This collection—derived from many impulses but unified through one distinctive sensibility—contains passionate subversive acts of language, oblique takes on American life, outbursts of comic genius, long meditations on the cruelty of contemporary customs, and funny, disturbing glimpses of daily life.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

University of Alabama Press

Investigates the development of hypotheses about how West African, possibly Igbo, cultural traditions were maintained and transformed in the Virginia Chesapeake
 

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The Nature of an Ancient Maya City

Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

University of Alabama Press

Reveals what daily Maya life was like

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Ancient Maya Traders of Ambergris Caye

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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SunWatch

Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World

University of Alabama Press

Focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social change

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Framing Public Memory

University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Stand Up for Alabama

Governor George Wallace

University of Alabama Press

Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, comprehensive, and analytical study of Wallace’s political life that emphasizes his activities and their impact within the state of Alabama. Jeff Frederick examines the development of policy during the Wallace administrations and documents relationships with his constituents in ways that go beyond racial politics. He also analyzes the connections between Wallace’s career and Alabamians’ understanding of their history, sense of morality, and class system.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Archaeology of Town Creek

University of Alabama Press

Provides new insights into the community pattern and leadership roles at a major Mississippian archaeological site
 

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The World in Which We Occur

John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century

University of Alabama Press

The World in Which We Occur highlights Dewey's notion in order to define “pragmatist ecology,” a practice rooted in the interface of the cultural and the natural. Neil Browne finds this to be a significant feature of some of the most important ecological writing of the last century

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Architectural Variability in the Southeast

University of Alabama Press

Research into a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast
 

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Justice and Public Administration

University of Alabama Press
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It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature

A Novella and Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

This work by Diane Williams delves into the strange relationships of men and women. From marital betrayal to spousal abuse and unrelenting desire, Williams illuminates the lives of her characters in prose as sparse and stark as it is beautiful.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration

University of Alabama Press

Examines various constitutional crises the nation has experienced since Watergate

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The Mississippian Emergence

Edited by Bruce D. Smith
University of Alabama Press

This collection, addressing a topic of ongoing interest and debate in American archaeology, examines the evolution of ranked chiefdoms in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States during the period A.D. 700–1200.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Nightmare on Iwo Jima

A Marine in Combat

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

On February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions stormed ashore from a naval support force. Among them was green young lieutenant Pat Caruso who became de facto company commander when the five officers ranking him were killed or wounded.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Kissed By

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Alone in Mexico

The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845–1848

University of Alabama Press

The first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller
 

  • Copyright year: 2007
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