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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Echoes of Emerson

Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather

University of Alabama Press

Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism and Realism—have come to be understood and defined

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Cultures of Doing Good

Anthropologists and NGOs

University of Alabama Press

Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Character, Community, and Politics

University of Alabama Press

A classic political philosophy text, available again

  • Copyright year: 1982
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Center Places and Cherokee Towns

Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians

University of Alabama Press

Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape

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A Forgotten Front

Florida during the Civil War Era

Edited by Seth A. Weitz and Jonathan C. Sheppard; Introduction by Seth A. Weitz
University of Alabama Press

An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Henry Bradley Plant

Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South

University of Alabama Press

The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida

 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean

Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism

University of Alabama Press

New perspectives on Caribbean historical archaeology that go beyond the colonial plantation

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Dog and Gun

A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting, Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents

University of Alabama Press

Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting – clearly distinct from hunting for food – in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Unknown Waters

A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)

University of Alabama Press

Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War

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The Perfect Lion

The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham

University of Alabama Press

Maxwell’s work provides the first complete, deeply researched biography of Pelham, perhaps Alabama’s most notable Civil War figure, and explains his enduring attraction.

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