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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Truman Capote's Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition
Stories from a Monroeville Cousin
By Marianne M. Moates; Foreword by Ralph F. Voss
University of Alabama Press
Celebrates Marianne M. Moates’s insightful and detailed account of Truman Capote’s early childhood in Alabama as recounted by his cousin Jennings Faulk Carter
- Copyright year: 2014
Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
University of Alabama Press
Explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling in literature
- Copyright year: 2014
The Punitive Imagination
Law, Justice, and Responsibility
University of Alabama Press
Presents a thought-provoking collection of five essays that explore the purposes and meanings of legal punishment in the United States, both culturally and socially
- Copyright year: 2014
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
University of Alabama Press
Considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike
- Copyright year: 2014
The Observable Characteristics of Organisms
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Ryan MacDonald’s debut collection of short fiction includes “The Observable Characteristics of Organisms,” which won the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Prize.
- Copyright year: 2014
Helen Keller Really Lived
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The newest novel by Elisabeth Sheffield, the award-winning author of Gone and Fort Da
- Copyright year: 2014
Freshwater Mussels of Florida
University of Alabama Press
Freshwater Mussels of Florida is the only comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia of all recorded species of mussels in the state of Florida.
- Copyright year: 2014
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours is the winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize.
- Copyright year: 2014
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
University of Alabama Press
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible
American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard
Edited by Robert McClure Smith and Ellen Weinauer
University of Alabama Press
Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periods
- Copyright year: 2003
After War Times
An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida
By T. Thomas Fortune; Edited by Daniel R. Weinfeld; Introduction by Dawn J. Herd-Clark; Afterword by Tameka Bradley Hobbs
University of Alabama Press
Twenty-three autobiographical articles by noted African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune, comprising a late-life memoir of his childhood in Reconstruction-era Florida
- Copyright year: 2014
Alabama Governors
A Political History of the State
University of Alabama Press
An entirely revised and updated edition of the best-selling 2001 original
- Copyright year: 2014
Our Southern Zion
A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America
- Copyright year: 1996
Storm of Words
Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era
University of Alabama Press
A study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions
- Copyright year: 2014
Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom
Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Communities along the Alabama River
University of Alabama Press
Reconstructing Tascalusa’s Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernando de Soto expedition.
- Copyright year: 2014
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Edited by Monika Elbert
University of Alabama Press
Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980
The First Twenty Days
By Kathleen Dupes Hawk, Ron Villella, and Adolfo Leyva de Varona; Edited by Kristen Cifers; Foreword by Bob Graham
University of Alabama Press
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 recounts first-hand the drama and political intrigue that erupted when more than thirty thousand Cuban refugees fled to Florida and the stories of the first responders who aided them.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze
Regarding Subjectivity
By John Dolis
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative technique and unique vision of the world
The Emperor Redressed
Critiquing Critical Theory
Edited by Dwight Eddins; Introduction by Dwight Eddins
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1995
Tell the World You're a Wildflower
Stories
University of Alabama Press
In Tell the World You’re a Wildflower, Jennifer Horne luminously brings to life the criss-crossing experiences of Southern women in twenty-four contemporary short stories.
- Copyright year: 2014
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