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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Impotent

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

M— is married with children and working a dead end job solely for the insurance and meager income. He’s in a financial and emotional trough, and thus asks his doctor for Paxil because he's worried he'll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L— is a college dropout and construction worker. He self-medicates, starting with Ambien. After he accidentally cuts off some fingers he switches to Darvocet. Later his doctor leads him to Zoloft, once the cocktail of pharmaceuticals. The medicine is meant to wake him up, but instead puts him to sleep.     
 

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Forms at War

FC2 1999-2009

Edited by Ralph M. Berry
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Crossing the River

By Shalom Eilati; Translated by Vern Lenz
University of Alabama Press

Crossing the River is a personal memoir reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Clear-Cutting Eden

Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature

University of Alabama Press

Examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order

The English Churches in the Delaware Valley

By Jon Butler; Foreword by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press

This new edition and update of the seminal study, Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order, questions the assumption that colonial American churches were seedbeds of democratic sentiment merely awaiting the American Revolution to cast off the shackles of both political and religious domination.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights

The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist

University of Alabama Press

This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Essays in Jewish Thought

University of Alabama Press

Examines and explores diverse topics of Jewish thought and history

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Very Worst Road

Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847

University of Alabama Press

The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the “Old Federal Road,” more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Second Front Now--1943

An Opportunity Delayed

University of Alabama Press

Addresses head-on the central issue of invasion timing in the Allied European strategy of World War II

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Christian Reconstruction

The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890

University of Alabama Press

Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Great War in the Air

Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921

University of Alabama Press

"A comprehensive study of the totality of the air war in its military, political, industrial, and cultural aspects distinguish this book from other treatments of military aviation during this period. . . . Morrow's efforts have yielded new insights into the evolution of military aviation and corrected previous oversights. The author's attention to developments in production and logistics, as well as events at the front, provide the most complete understanding of the development of air power and its role in the Great War."--American Historical Review

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Public Indians, Private Cherokees

Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground

University of Alabama Press

Explores the major economic industry among American Indian tribes—public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues

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Heritage or Heresy

Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera

University of Alabama Press

Through analysis of seven archaeological sites on the Yucatan peninsula that are open to heritage touring, Walker reveals the planned growth of the Maya Riviera since the early 1970s and examines the impact of international tourism on both ancient structures and the contemporary Maya people and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Speaking with the Ancestors

Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region

University of Alabama Press

During the last twenty years the authors have researched over 88 possible examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago, and discovered along the river valleys of the interior Southeast. Independently and in conjunction, they have measured, analyzed, photographed, and traced the known history of the 42 that appear in this volume.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Digital Poetics

Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media

University of Alabama Press

Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry
 

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism

Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer and Mark A. Noll; Introduction by Stephen Marini
University of Alabama Press

The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Making Pictures in Stone

American Indian Rock Art of the Northeast

University of Alabama Press

A full range of rock art appearances, including dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain on the Move

A Travel Reader

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Poetics & Polemics

1980-2005

By Jerome Rothenberg; Edited by Steven Clay; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press

Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American and international poetry today.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Inconstant Companions

Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions

University of Alabama Press

One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—the role of oral tradition in scientific research.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Assault on Progress

Technology and Time in American Literature

University of Alabama Press

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for Best Manuscript in American Literature

  • Copyright year: 2008
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King Cotton Diplomacy

Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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First Freedom

The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction

University of Alabama Press

Classic study of the history of post-slave societies

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Talking Taino

Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Transformation of the Christian Right in the 1980s

University of Alabama Press

The Transformation of the Christian Right chronicles and analyzes the remarkable changes that have occurred in the Christian Right from its emergence in the late 1970s to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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There's Hope for the World

The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Great War in the Heart of Dixie

Alabama During World War I

University of Alabama Press

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced?

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism

The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

University of Alabama Press
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Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin

A Collection of Words

By William A. Read; Introduction by George M. Riser
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of Indian Places Names in Alabama and Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names, this volume completes the republication of the southern place name writings of William A. Read.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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