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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Trumping Religion
The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts
University of Alabama Press
The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in litigating cases regarding religion
Hemingway and Women
Female Critics and the Female Voice
Edited by Lawrence R. Broer and Gloria Holland
University of Alabama Press
Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writers
Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from women scholars who challenge traditional views of Hemingway and women. The essays in this collection range from discussions of Hemingway’s famous heroines Brett Ashley and Catherine Barkley to examinations of the central role of gender in his short stories and in the novel The Garden of Eden. Other essays address the real women in Hemingway’s life—those who cared for him, competed with him, and, ultimately, helped to shape his art. While Hemingway was certainly influenced by traditional perceptions of women, these essays show that he was also aware of the struggle of the emerging new woman of his time. Making this gender struggle a primary concern of his fiction, these critics argue, Hemingway created women with strength, depth, and a complexity that readers are only beginning to appreciate.
Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from women scholars who challenge traditional views of Hemingway and women. The essays in this collection range from discussions of Hemingway’s famous heroines Brett Ashley and Catherine Barkley to examinations of the central role of gender in his short stories and in the novel The Garden of Eden. Other essays address the real women in Hemingway’s life—those who cared for him, competed with him, and, ultimately, helped to shape his art. While Hemingway was certainly influenced by traditional perceptions of women, these essays show that he was also aware of the struggle of the emerging new woman of his time. Making this gender struggle a primary concern of his fiction, these critics argue, Hemingway created women with strength, depth, and a complexity that readers are only beginning to appreciate.
- Copyright year: 2003
Syncopations
The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry
By Jed Rasula
University of Alabama Press
Makes a case for innovation as the generative and thematic force in American poetry of the late 20th century
Signs of Power
The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Edited by Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr
University of Alabama Press
By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization among Archaic societies.
- Copyright year: 2004
Pushmataha
A Choctaw Leader and His People
By Gideon Lincecum; Introduction by John P. Bowes
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
Comprises two valuable, original, and difficult-to-find pieces on Choctaw history and culture that originally appeared in the 1904 and 1906 volumes of Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society
- Copyright year: 2004
On Land and Sea
Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies
By Lee A. Newsom and Elizabeth S. Wing
University of Alabama Press
Provides a storehouse of information on the human ecology of the Caribbean and illuminates the processes of colonization of island systems anywhere in the world.
Hogg
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Explores America’s culture of sexual violence and degeneration
- Copyright year: 2004
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
Literary and Intellectual Contexts
Edited by Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight
University of Alabama Press
Considers Gilman’s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era
- Copyright year: 2004
Homelands
Southern Jewish Identity in Durham-Chapel Hill and North Carolina
University of Alabama Press
Blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity in the South
Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage
Secret Histories
By Mark Axelrod
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A tongue-in-cheek guide to the connections between contemporary reality and the past
- Copyright year: 2004
Emancipating Pragmatism
Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing
University of Alabama Press
A radical rereading of Emerson that posits African- American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition
Simulcast
Four Experiments in Criticism
University of Alabama Press
A provocative overview of avant-garde American poetry of the past 25 years that raises important questions about the practice of criticism
- Copyright year: 2004
The Memoire Justificatif of Chevalier Monberaut
Indian Diplomacy in British West Florida, 1763-1765
University of Alabama Press
Presents in greater detail the circumstances and procedure of Indian diplomacy on the Gulf Coast at the beginning of the British period
Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation
University of Alabama Press
Provides insights into important facets of Alabama’s antebellum history
Filibusters and Expansionists
Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
By Frank L. Owsley and Gene Allen Smith
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates the passionate interest the Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and expanding Jefferson’s “empire of liberty”
- Copyright year: 2004
An Agenda for Antiquity
Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1935
University of Alabama Press
How and why vertebrate paleontology flourished at New York’s American Museum of Natural History in the early 20th century
- Copyright year: 1991
The Wavering Knife
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane
- Copyright year: 2004
Crossing the Deadly Ground
United States Army Tactics, 1865–1899
University of Alabama Press
Attempts to answer difficult questions about battle tactics employed by the United States Army
The Eagle's Nest
Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842
University of Alabama Press
Contains a useful panoramic account of the fresh perspectives that early American practitioners brought to the natural sciences
- Copyright year: 1986
James Barbour, a Jeffersonian Repulican
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1984
Florida Territory in 1844
The Diary of Master Edward Clifford Anderson, USN
University of Alabama Press
Edward Anderson's diary covers his service in Florida Territory from March 16 to December 31, 1844 during the Navy mission in Florida to protect live oak and pine forests on government land from poachers.
- Copyright year: 1977
Everyday Psychokillers
A History for Girls, A Novel
By Lucy Corin
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Interweaving history, myth, rumor, and news, this first novel explores what it means to grow up as a girl in a culture of girl-killers
- Copyright year: 2004
The Southern Frontier 1670-1732
By Verner Crane; Introduction by Steven C. Hahn
University of Alabama Press
A classic resource on the struggle for dominance in southern North America during the colonial period
- Copyright year: 2004
A History of the Osage People
University of Alabama Press
Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.
The Mound-Builders
By Henry Clyde Shetrone; Introduction by Bradley T. Lepper
University of Alabama Press
A classic resource on early knowledge of prehistoric mounds and the peoples who constructed them in the eastern United States
- Copyright year: 2004
Secessionist Impulse
Alabama and Mississippi in 1860
Introduction by William L. Barney; By William L. Barney
University of Alabama Press
The classic study of the cultural and economic politics that allowed "fire-eaters" to triumph over Unionists in the Deep South
- Copyright year: 2003
Inside Alabama
A Personal History of My State
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie"
- Copyright year: 2003
The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole
Postmodernist Long Poems
By Brian McHale
University of Alabama Press
A smart, eclectic analysis of nine long poems written by postmodernist poets
The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
University of Alabama Press
The ninth and final volume in the C.B. Moore reprint series that covers archaeological discoveries along North American Waterways.
- Copyright year: 2004
Catawba Indian Pottery
The Survival of a Folk Tradition
By Thomas John Blumer; Foreword by William L. Harris
University of Alabama Press
Traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present
- Copyright year: 2004
Florida Place-Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names
By William A. Read; Introduction by Patricia Riles Wickman
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
A compendium of Indian-derived names from the three languages of the Muskhogean family—Seminole, Hitchiti, and Choctaw
- Copyright year: 2003
Splendid Land, Splendid People
The Chickasaw Indians to Removal
University of Alabama Press
A thorough examination of the Chickasaw Indians, tracing their history as far back as the documentation and archeological record will allow
- Copyright year: 2003
The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux
Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
University of Alabama Press
Sephardim of Bordeaux—the first in Europe to be recognized as a Jewish community
- Copyright year: 1978
U.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office
A 19th-Century Rivalry in Science and Politics
University of Alabama Press
Examines a crucial phase of the relations of science and politics in the post-Civil War period
- Copyright year: 1988
Nahum Goldman
His Missions to the Gentile
University of Alabama Press
The first exploration of Nahum Goldmann and his extraordinary life
- Copyright year: 1980
William Alexander Lord Stirling
George Washington's Noble General
University of Alabama Press
The biographical account of a man who served 18th-century American society as a prominent citizen in peacetime and as a soldier in the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution
- Copyright year: 1987
John Horry Dent
South Carolina Aristocrat On Alabama Frontier
By Ray Mathis
University of Alabama Press
Explores the world of this wealthy planter and landholder
- Copyright year: 1979
Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric
Confederate States Policy for the United States Presidential Contest
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating study of Confederate perceptions of and attempts to manipulate the 1864 US presidential election
Two Years on the Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Arthur Sinclair's account of the career and final death of the Alabama rank among the most compelling and enduring accounts of hte Confederacy's brave, ingenious and ultimately doomed sea effort.
Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940–1947
University of Alabama Press
Documents prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the Mississippi River
- Copyright year: 2003
Cherokee Women In Crisis
Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907
University of Alabama Press
Explains how traditional Cherokee women’s roles were destabilized, modified, recovered, and in some ways strengthened during three periods of great turmoil
- Copyright year: 2003
All-Time Greatest Alabama Sports Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
Highlights the finest moments of Alabama players—on the court, on the field, and on the course
- Copyright year: 2003
Dahlia's Iris
Secret Autobiography and Fiction
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A futuristic detective novel written in the tradition of an ancient Tibetan form.
- Copyright year: 2003
Talladega College
The First Century
By Maxine D. Jones and Joe M. Richardson
University of Alabama Press
An early history of Talladega College
Sources of Division in the Disciples of Christ, 1865-1900
A Social History of the Disciples of Christ, Volume 2
University of Alabama Press
The definitive social history of the Disciples of Christ in the 19th century
- Copyright year: 2003
Rediscovering The Past at Mexico's Periphery
Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan
University of Alabama Press
Surveys major trends in Yucatán’s currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research
Red Virgin
Memoirs Of Louise Michel
By Louise Michel; Edited by Bullitt Lowry and Elizabeth Gunter; Translated by Elizabeth Gunter and Bullitt Lowry
University of Alabama Press
The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel will be useful to both scholars and students of 19th-century French history and women’s studies.
- Copyright year: 1981
Quest for a Christian America, 1800–1865
A Social History of the Disciples of Christ, Volume 1
University of Alabama Press
The definitive social history of the Disciples of Christ in the 19th century
- Copyright year: 2003
Labor Revolt In Alabama
The Great Strike of 1894
University of Alabama Press
The gripping story of the 1894 Alabama coal miners strike
- Copyright year: 1965
Kolomoki
Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2003
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