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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Bombast And Broadsides

The Lives of George Johnstone

University of Alabama Press

Presents the first coherent picture of George Johnstone, a vigorous and intelligent but turbulent and always controversial figure
 

  • Copyright year: 1987
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The Forever Season

University of Alabama Press

This tale of youth and the immutable forces of society arrayed against its innocence and optimism has been called the best football novel in years.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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The Divided Mind of Protestant America, 1880-1930

University of Alabama Press

The Divided Mind of Protestant America is a documented overview of American Protestantism in American culture from beginning to end.

  • Copyright year: 1982
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Norman Corwin and Radio

The Golden Years

University of Alabama Press

Norman Corwin is regarded as the most acclaimed creative artist of radio’s Golden Age (mid 1930s to late 1940s). Corwin worked as a producer for CBS at a time when radio was the centerpiece of American family life. His programs brought high moments to the medium during a period when exceptional creativity and world crisis shaped its character and conviction. From Corwin's remarkable work during WWII to his defense of freedom of speech during the McCarthy era, Bannerman’s book is more than biography: it is also social history—the story of network radio, its great achievements and ultimate decline.

  • Copyright year: 1986
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Educating Black Doctors

A History of Meharry Medical College

University of Alabama Press

A journalistic, well-documented account of varying approaches to improving health for Black Americans

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My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2002
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Toleration

University of Alabama Press

Most regard toleration as an unattractive fallback position of compromise and so tend to overlook it in favor of such active concepts as freedom, equality, and justice. Fotion and Elfstrom argue that toleration offers us the useful possibility of responding to a difficult situation with a degree of flexibility not possible with the dichotomous concepts of good-bad, right-wrong, ethical-unethical, Right-Left.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Politics of the Peace Corps and VISTA

University of Alabama Press

The author has taken the concept of organizational culture from corporate literature and applied it to two unique government programs, the Peace Corps and VISTA.

  • Copyright year: 1988
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The Economy of British West Florida, 1763-1783

University of Alabama Press

"Highly recommended." —CHOICE

 

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Sexual Power

Feminism and the Family in America

University of Alabama Press

Offers an opportunity to view the history of feminism and the family from a fresh perspective

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Riveting and Rationing in Dixie

Alabama Women and the Second World War

University of Alabama Press

The first book to examine the impact of World War II on the roles of women in an individual state

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Reformed America

The Middle and Southern States 1783-1837

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes the success of the Reformed in the middle and southern states

  • Copyright year: 1980
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Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore

The Years of British and American Presence

University of Alabama Press

Nicaragua’s Mosquito Shore provides a general history of eastern Nicaragua from the time of the first British entry in 1633 to the present. The territory is populated chiefly by Mosquito Indians, who speak their own language and some Mosquito. Dozier develops the history of the current political troubles in Nicaragua, which had their origin in the early 1930s and which center about the control of the rich area inhabited by the Mosquitos. His book presents the historical background for the tragic events that are now taking place in that region.

  • Copyright year: 1985
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Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansman

Federal Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870-1893

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1991
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Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

The only comprehensive description of the fossil-vertebrate content of this important part of the world.

  • Copyright year: 1981
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Curators and Culture

The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870

University of Alabama Press

Curators and Culture argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy

University of Alabama Press

This book is about the men who worked involuntarily in the Banner Coal Mine, owned by the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. And it is about the repercussions and consequences that followed an explosion at the mine in the spring of 1911 that killed 128 convict miners.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Armed with the Constitution

Jehovah's Witnesses in Alabama and the U.S Supreme Court, 1939-1946

University of Alabama Press

Underscores the importance of “little people” in affecting the US government
 

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Argentina and the Jews

A History of Jewish Immigration

University of Alabama Press

Traces the shifting patterns of Jewish immigration and Argentine immigration policy

  • Copyright year: 1991
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A-Train

Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman

University of Alabama Press

A moving personal account by one of the first Tuskegee airmen which illustrates the period of racial integration in American military and civilian life
 

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985

University of Alabama Press

Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years.  Still, to this day no rational method exists to discriminate the dangerous from the harmless in matters of involuntary commitment, nor insanity from crime in the courts.

  • Copyright year: 1989
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Henry James and the Mass Market

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1983
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Henry Grady's New South

Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City

University of Alabama Press

Harold E. Davis's study of Henry Grady and the Atlanta Constitution

  • Copyright year: 1990
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Chronicles Of Faith

The Autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson

University of Alabama Press

Records the life of a man who influenced the course of higher education for African Americans and Africans throughout the twentieth century

  • Copyright year: 1991
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"Hear O Israel"

The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970

University of Alabama Press

The only examination of the history of American Jewish preaching, from the settlement of the first Jews in the United States until 1970

  • Copyright year: 1989
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All the Lost Girls

Confessions of a Southern Daughter

University of Alabama Press

Turns a critical yet loving eye on the sometimes volatile culture of the South and the relationships between southern mothers and daughters
 

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Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse

University of Alabama Press

Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse analyzes argumentation in ordinary disputes.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1981
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Creating the American State

The Moral Reformers and the Modern Administrative World They Made

University of Alabama Press

In this illuminating and provocative study, Stillman provides a new understanding of the foundation of the American state.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory

University of Alabama Press

Representing the synthesis of approximately ten years of archaeological research along the central Tombigbee River, this book offers new theoretical and interpretive contributions to the study of human activity in the Tombigbee River Valley from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1450.

  • Copyright year: 1986
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Structure and Process in Southeastern Archaeology

University of Alabama Press

Within the general structure-and-process theme of this compendium, the authors have focused on either intrasite problems (those dealing with the formation and structure of a site, type of site, or type of feature) or intersite problems (those dealing with behavioral organization and process as developed from comparative site data). These papers, from a broad range of specialists, present a comprehensive study of southeastern archaeology.

  • Copyright year: 1985
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The Woodland Southeast

University of Alabama Press

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Design and Debris

A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction

University of Alabama Press

Reading eight major contemporary authors through the lens of chaos theory, Conte offers new and original interpretations of works that have been the subject of much critical debate

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Shootout with Father

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A richly textured novel built around the love-hate conflict between a father and his grown son

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Histories of Southeastern Archaeology

University of Alabama Press

This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Visible Ink

University of Alabama Press

This final collection of poems from witty wordsmith and rhyme builder George Starbuck greatly expands his oeuvre and offers witness to the transformative power of poetry when practiced by a master.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration

Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999

University of Alabama Press

Explains the reasons behind Congress's expanded role in the federal government, its underlying coherence, and its continuing significance for those who study and practice public administration

  • Copyright year: 2002
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New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology

University of Alabama Press

In this landmark book, experienced scholars take a retrospective look at the developing routes that have brought American archaeologists into the 21st century.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Southern Women Playwrights

New Essays in History and Criticism

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2001
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Led by Language

The Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe

University of Alabama Press

This first full-length study of Susan Howe illuminates the historical,
autobiographical, and theoretical influences that underlie the work of this enigmatic and important contemporary American poet.

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The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and Yiddish folklore and fairy stories to recount the visionary obsessions of a passionate young woman.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Religion, Politics and the American Experience

Reflections on Religion and American Public Life

Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer; Epilogue by Martin E. Marty; Introduction by Martin E. Marty
University of Alabama Press

This challenging collection of essays offers a refreshing approach to the troubling–and timely–subject of religion and public policy in American, and the ways in which issues of church and state affect our national identity.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Another's Country

Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies

University of Alabama Press

An engaging look at the rise and fall of cultural diversity in the colonial South and its role in shaping a distinct southern identity
 

  • Copyright year: 2001
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We Who Love to Be Astonished

Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics

University of Alabama Press

The first critical volume devoted to the full range of women's postmodern works

  • Copyright year: 2001
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The Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922

University of Alabama Press

Examines the roles a remarkable group of women played in one of the most influential theatre groups in America
 

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Telling It Slant

Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990S

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Our Elders Teach Us

Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives

By David Carey; Preface by Allan Burns
University of Alabama Press

 

In this rich and dynamic work, David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves. Valuable to historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, or anyone interested in Mayan and Latin American studies, this book will inform as well as enchant.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Poor but Proud

Alabama's Poor Whites

University of Alabama Press

This meticulous reconstruction of the lives of poor whites in the heart of Dixie is a model study inviting new respect for a people who have suffered from widespread and continuing stereotyping.

1991 James F. Sulzby Book Award, sponsored by Alabama Historical Association
1991 Alabama Library Author Award, sponsored by Alabama Library Association
1990 Lillian Smith Book Award, sponsored by Southern Regional Council
1989 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine


  • Copyright year: 2001
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Plants from the Past

Works Of Leonard W. Blake & Hugh C. Cutler

University of Alabama Press

Plants from the Past is a fascinating, comprehensive record of the work of two dedicated plant scientists who were instrumental in the establishment of archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany as vigorous subdisciplines within American archaeology.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Excavations at Wickliffe Mounds

University of Alabama Press

Wesler provides an impressive and definitive compilation of more than 70 years of archaeological excavations at one of the most important archaeological sites in Kentucky.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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