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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More than a Game
The Best of Alf Van Hoose
By Alf Van Hoose; Introduction by Creg Stephenson; Edited by Edward Mullins and Creg Stephenson; Foreword by Susanna Van Hoose Feld and Susanna Van Hoose
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
The best work of one of Alabama’s longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As Birmingham News sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that, Van Hoose helped define a city, a state, and a region largely known for sports. He was the writer of record for some of the biggest sporting events and personalities in the state of Alabama in the last half of the 20th Century. Wayne Hester, Van Hoose’s successor as sports editor of The News, in 1990, said, “To many sports fans over the years, Alf Van Hoose has been The Birmingham News.” But he was also much more than the “sports guy,” as older generations of Alabama sports fans who read this book will remember and younger ones will learn. He was a man for all seasons, not just those where balls get kicked, hit, or thrown around. A native of Cuba, Alabama, and a veteran of the Third Army campaigns in WWII (where he won both the Bronze and Silver Stars), Van Hoose became a sportswriter on The News in 1947. He remained in that role until retirement in 1990, with only short breaks to serve as a Vietnam war correspondent, and to reflect on the lessons learned while serving with George Patton. Van Hoose died in 1997 at the age of 76. This volume contains 90 of Van Hoose’s best columns, selected not only to showcase his characteristic style, but also because of the enduring importance and interest of the topics—football and baseball, of course, but also golf, high school heroics, auto racing, and Van Hoose’s special favorites: Rickwood Field and its various tenants, especially the Birmingham Black Barons.
- Copyright year: 2009
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 17
Outdoor Performance
Edited by Jay Malarcher
University of Alabama Press
Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events.
- Copyright year: 2009
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities
Edited by Jessica Joyce Christie; Introduction by Jessica Joyce Christie
University of Alabama Press
Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points.In conventional anthropological literature, "landscape" is the term applied to the meaning local people bestow on their cultural and physical surroundings. In this work, the authors explore the cultural and physical landscapes an individual or cultural group has constructed to define the origins or beginnings of that cultural group as revealed through shared or traditional memory. The cultural landscapes of origins in diverse sites throughout the Americas are investigated through multidisciplinary research, not only to reveal the belief system and mythologies but also to place these origin beliefs in context and relationship to each other. In a continual interaction between the past, present, and future, time is subordinate to place, and history, as defined in Western academic terms, does not exist.
- Copyright year: 2009
Chains and Freedom
Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, A Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, A Sailor on the Deep, and A Sinner at the Cross
By Peter Wheeler; Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
University of Alabama Press
A very early example of the escaped slave memoir genre and a rare account of northern slavery
- Copyright year: 2009
Thinking Poetics
Essays on George Oppen
Edited by Steve Shoemaker
University of Alabama Press
Thinking Poetics is a testament to Oppen's place in 20th and 21st-century poetic culture and an essential volume for anyone interested in Oppen's life or poetry
- Copyright year: 2009
Seven Months in the Rebel States During the North American War, 1863
By Justus Scheibert; Translated by Joseph C. Hayes; Introduction by Robert K. Krick and William Stanley Hoole; Edited by William Stanley Hoole, W. Stanley Hoole, and Robert K. Krick
University of Alabama Press
Captain Scheibert’s book was available only in German until W. S. Hoole edited the present version.
- Copyright year: 2009
Selling Outer Space
Kennedy, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961-1963
University of Alabama Press
Examines how the Kennedy administration and the media constructed the space program in ways designed to win congressional and public approval
- Copyright year: 2009
The Narrative Secret of Flannery O'Connor
The Trickster as Interpreter
University of Alabama Press
O’Connor’s endeavor to write engaging narratives,at the same time open up to the divine in the everyday world
- Copyright year: 2009
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Samuel Ullman and "Youth"
The Life, the Legacy
By Margaret E. Armbrester; Foreword by Jiro M. Miyazawa
University of Alabama Press
Examines a poem that has not only withstood the vicissitudes of time, but has spread around the world like the waves lapping at a beach
- Copyright year: 2009
Legacy of a False Promise
A Daughter's Reckoning
University of Alabama Press
The compelling story of a teenage girl caught up in the throes of the McCarthy era.
- Copyright year: 2009
Air Power and Armies
By Sir John Cotesworth Slessor; Foreword by Phillip S. Meilinger
University of Alabama Press
An account of Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897–1979), one of Great Britain's most influential airmen
Out of the Dark
A History of Radio and Rural America
By Steve Craig
University of Alabama Press
Out of the Dark is a study of radio's impact on rural America in the three decades between its inception and the arrival of television.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Command of the Air
By Giulio Douhet; Introduction by Joseph Patrick Harahan and Richard H. Kohn; Translated by Dino Ferrari; Edited by Joseph Patrick Harahan and Richard H. Kohn
University of Alabama Press
The Italian General Giulio Douhet reigns as one of the twentieth century’s foremost strategic air power theorists. As such scholars as Raymond Flugel have pointed out, Douhet’s theories were crucial at a pivotal pre-World War II Army Air Force institution, the Air Corps Tactical School.
- Copyright year: 2009
Tin Man
By Charlie Lucas and Ben Windham; Foreword by Robert Farris Thompson and Robert Farris Thomps; By (photographer) Chip Cooper; Introduction by Georgine Clarke
University of Alabama Press
Showcases the extraordinary life and work of an internationally significant Alabama folk artist
- Copyright year: 2009
Beautiful Soon Enough
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
- Copyright year: 2009
The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing
University of Alabama Press
An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history.American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. The Color of Democracy in Women’s Regional Writing enters into the heart of an ongoing debate in the field about the significance of regional fiction at the end of the 19th century. Jean Griffith presents the innovative view that regional writing provided Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already closely associated with women readers and writers.Griffith provides new readings of texts by these authors; she places them alongside the works of their contemporaries, including William Faulkner and Langston Hughes, to show regionalism’s responses to the debate over who was capable of democratic participation and reading regionalism’s changing mediations between natives and strangers as reflections of the changing face of democracy.This insightful work enriches the current debate about whether regionalism critiques hierarchies or participates in nationalist and racist agendas and will be of great interest to those invested in regional writing or the works of these significant authors.
- Copyright year: 2009
Black Education in Alabama, 1865-1901
University of Alabama Press
Explains and describes the development of black private and public, elementary, secondary, normal, and collegiate education in Alabama from emancipation to 1901
- Copyright year: 2005
Theatre History Studies 2009, Vol. 29
Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy; By Theatre History Studies
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies is a peer–reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid–American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The purpose of MATC is to unite people and organizations in their region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.
- Copyright year: 2009
The River Gods
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A novel in fragments, a mix of fact and fiction, in which various inhabitants of the area around what is now Northampton, Massachusetts
- Copyright year: 2009
Nancy Batson Crews
Alabama's First Lady of Flight
By Sarah Byrn Rickman; Foreword by Jane Kirkpatrick
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator.
- Copyright year: 2009
Voices in Exile
Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Edited by Jean D'Costa and Barbara Lalla
University of Alabama Press
The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and culture that developed when African and European exiles came together on the plantations of Jamaica. Accounts of planters, slave-trading captains, and other testimonies from both the colonial and indigenous population effectively illustrate the unfolding of this unique culture.
- Copyright year: 2009
Rock Art of the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
Rock Art of the Caribbean focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition.
- Copyright year: 2009
Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley
University of Alabama Press
Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley addresses the approximately 7,000 years of the prehistory of eastern North America, termed the Archaic Period by archaeologists.
- Copyright year: 2009
Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
By Dan F. Morse and Phyllis A. Morse
University of Alabama Press
A classic work detailing an 11,000-year period of human culture within the largest river system of North America
- Copyright year: 2009
The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands
By Jesse Walter Fewkes; Preface by L. Antonio Curet
University of Alabama Press
A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico
- Copyright year: 2009
Captives in Gray
The Civil War Prisons of the Union
University of Alabama Press
Contains contemporary reports from prisoners and witnesses humanize the grim realities of the POW camps
- Copyright year: 2009
A Conquering Spirit
Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814
University of Alabama Press
The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims left hundreds dead and ultimately changed the course of American history. The Indian victory shocked and horrified a young America, ushering in a period of violence surrounded by racial and social confusion. Fort Mims became a rallying cry, calling Americans to fight their assailants and avenge the dead. In A Conquering Spirit, Waselkov thoroughly explicates the social climes surrounding this tumultuous moment in early American history with a comprehensive collection of illustrations, artifact photographs, and detailed accounts of every known participant in the attack on Fort Mims. These rich and extensive resources make A Conquering Spirit an invaluable collection for any reader interested in America’s frontier era. * Winner of the Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award by the Alabama Library Association* Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley award from the Alabama Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2009
The Packhorseman
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
An entertaining, engrossing, and enlightening historical novel that brings to life the packhorsemen, Indian traders, and southeastern Indians of the early 18th-century Carolina.
- Copyright year: 2009
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