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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Fitter, Happier
The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century
Dear Incomprehension
On American Speculative Fiction
University of Alabama Press
A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction
Unsettling Brazil
Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities’ responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte
Theatre History Studies 2023, Vol. 42
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press
The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference
- Copyright year: 2024
Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation
University of Alabama Press
An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century
Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 1
Prehistory through the Middle Woodland Period
University of Alabama Press
The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia
- Copyright year: 2024
Tannery Bay
A Novel
By Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A volume which explores Black Joy, Queer Joy, and the ways in which family is both biological and chosen
- Copyright year: 2024
American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three
Edited by Michael J. Altman, Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman; Preface by Michael J. Altman; Introduction by Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman
University of Alabama Press
Fresh perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from #RadTrad to the “FeeJee Mermaid”
- Copyright year: 2024
Odyssey of a Wandering Mind
The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author
University of Alabama Press
A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own
- Copyright year: 2024
The Houseboat Veronica
A Novel
By Josh Bell
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A mythopoetic journey to the edge of the world and to the edges of reason, horror, and beauty with a witch and her young ward.
Blessed Are the Activists
Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala
University of Alabama Press
Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s
- Copyright year: 2024
Tattered Kimonos in Japan
Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II
By Robert Rand
University of Alabama Press
Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict
- Copyright year: 2024
Uncanny Fidelity
Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television
By James Newlin
University of Alabama Press
How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean
- Copyright year: 2024
Time in the Barrel
A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien
University of Alabama Press
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War
- Copyright year: 2019
Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island
Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery
University of Alabama Press
Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories
- Copyright year: 2024
Aggression and Sufferings
Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South
University of Alabama Press
A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity
- Copyright year: 2024
The Case for Single Motherhood
Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations
University of Alabama Press
Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations
- Copyright year: 2024
Gringos Get Rich
Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music
By Eunice Rojas
University of Alabama Press
Documents counter-imperialism in Chilean music since the 1960s
- Copyright year: 2024
The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination
University of Alabama Press
How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts
- Copyright year: 2024
Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context
Reformer and Social Critic, 1869–1910
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrations
- Copyright year: 2024
Between Two Homelands
Argentine Migration to and from Israel
University of Alabama Press
Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines migrated to and from Israel
- Copyright year: 2024
Anything but Novel
Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative
University of Alabama Press
The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes
- Copyright year: 2024
There Is Only One Ghost in the World
By Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A rabbit hole of memory and longing
- Copyright year: 2023
School
A Novel
By Ray Levy
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Both a needed exorcism of academia and a comedic portrait of the artist seeking some means to survive
- Copyright year: 2023
Written in the Sky
Lessons of a Southern Daughter
University of Alabama Press
Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide
- Copyright year: 2023
Dixie Heretic
The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy
University of Alabama Press
A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy
- Copyright year: 2023
Bowed Some, Chanted a Little
Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance
Edited by Brian Unger; By Philip Whalen
University of Alabama Press
The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest
- Copyright year: 2023
Dreamer Nation
Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth
- Copyright year: 2023
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials
How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945
University of Alabama Press
Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I
- Copyright year: 2021
Tense Times
Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture
University of Alabama Press
How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes
- Copyright year: 2023
Ways to Disappear
Stories
By Victoria Lancelotta; Foreword by Cristina Rivera Garza
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Prize in Innovative Fiction
- Copyright year: 2023
Sustaining Air
The Life of Larry Eigner
University of Alabama Press
The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry
- Copyright year: 2023
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
University of Alabama Press
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
- Copyright year: 2023
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
University of Alabama Press
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
- Copyright year: 2023
Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice
Transformational Action for Positive Peace
University of Alabama Press
Introduces an analytic model for how archaeologists can work toward social justice
- Copyright year: 2023
Congress of States
Proceedings of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America
Edited by David Carlson
University of Alabama Press
A landmark publication of public reports that reveal the founding of the Confederate government
The Archaeology of Protestant Landscapes
Revealing the Formation of Community Identity in the US South
University of Alabama Press
How religious institutions used landscapes and architecture to express their religious and social ideologies
- Copyright year: 2023
Oktoberfest in Brazil
Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity
By Audrey Ricke
University of Alabama Press
An ethnography that explores Brazil’s domestic tourism through sensescapes and the economy of aesthetics framework
- Copyright year: 2023
Plant Foods of Greece
A Culinary Journey to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages
University of Alabama Press
A synthesis of culinary practices of prehistoric Greece based on plant food ingredients
- Copyright year: 2023
Glancing Visions
Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
University of Alabama Press
How the “glance” rather than the “gaze” in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism
Bold Conscience
Luther to Shakespeare to Milton
University of Alabama Press
How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action
- Copyright year: 2023
Playing House in the American West
Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839–1987
University of Alabama Press
Examines an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life
- Copyright year: 2013
This Incurable Evil
Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687
University of Alabama Press
Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families
- Copyright year: 2023
Sowing the Forest
A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes
University of Alabama Press
Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests
- Copyright year: 2023
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
- Copyright year: 2023
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport’s Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
- Copyright year: 2023
Learning from Birmingham
A Journey into History and Home
University of Alabama Press
A steel town daughter’s search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama
- Copyright year: 2023
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30
Theatre and Politics
Edited by Chase Bringardner
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates how theatre’s engagement with politics changes over time
- Copyright year: 2023
Unguessed Kinships
Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
By Steven Frye
University of Alabama Press
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists
- Copyright year: 2023
I Am Fighting for the Union
The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells
By Henry Willis Wells; Edited by Robert M. Browning Jr.
University of Alabama Press
An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy
- Copyright year: 2023
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