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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To My Dearest Wife, Lide

Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855

University of Alabama Press

A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Charles Valentine Riley

Founder of Modern Entomology

University of Alabama Press

Riley propelled entomology from a collector’s parlor hobby of the nineteenth century to the serious study of insects in the Modern Age

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Beautiful War

Studies in a Dreadful Fascination

University of Alabama Press

A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?

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Rhetorical Machines

Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics

Edited by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu; Introduction by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu
University of Alabama Press

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Alabama Creates

200 Years of Art and Artists

Edited by Elliot A. Knight; Preface by Al Head; Introduction by Gail C. Andrews
University of Alabama Press

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars

Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare

University of Alabama Press

Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Early Alabama

An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798–1826

University of Alabama Press

An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state’s origins

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

University of Alabama Press

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment

  • Copyright year: 2019
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A Century of Controversy

Constitutional Reform in Alabama

University of Alabama Press

A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Send the Alabamians

World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division

University of Alabama Press

Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.

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