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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Abductive Reasoning
University of Alabama Press
A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence
- Copyright year: 2005
Voices in the Wilderness
Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
A work of composition theory, rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately provides not only new approaches to argumentation and the teaching of rhetoric, composition, and communication but also an original perspective on the current debate over public discourse.
- Copyright year: 1999
From Conciliation to Conquest
The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin
University of Alabama Press
In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for "outrages" committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama
Mammals of Alabama
By Troy L. Best and Julian L. Dusi
University of Alabama Press
Beautifully designed and sturdily bound for rugged field use, Mammals of Alabama is the first and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama’s diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna
- Copyright year: 2014
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
University of Alabama Press
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2014
The English Physician
By Nicholas Culpeper; Edited by Michael A. Flannery; Introduction by Michael A. Flannery; Footnotes by Michael A. Flannery
University of Alabama Press
The first medical book published in the American colonies
- Copyright year: 2007
Patterson for Alabama
The Life and Career of John Patterson
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2013
Mule South to Tractor South
Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South
University of Alabama Press
The adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor
- Copyright year: 2013
Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
University of Alabama Press
A fresh perspective on the interaction of religious ideals and social change in rural settlements of the Moravian colony of Wachovia.
- Copyright year: 2013
Debt, Investment, Slaves
Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885
By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne; Foreword by Gavin Wright
University of Alabama Press
Richard Kilbourne has produced a comprehensive study of the credit system in one Louisiana parish in the antebellum and postbellum periods of the Civil War. East Feliciana Parish was important in terms of both population and the large number of slaves. This book’s primary concern is the role of slave property in collateralizing credit relationships and planter perceptions regarding slaves as financial assets.
- Copyright year: 2013
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry within Alabama from colonial times to the present within the broader contexts of southern and American agricultural history
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
University of Alabama Press
Examines the qualitative nature of capitalism’s processes through the lens of social networks
- Copyright year: 2013
A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida
By Bernard Romans; Edited by Kathryn H. Braund
University of Alabama Press
Braund presents the only annotated edition of Bernard Romans's rare and valuable 18th-century account of his observations in the southeastern United States.
Once Human
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A stunning new collection of stories by a master fictionist, Once Human shows the ways to go beyond standard maps of simple understanding
- Copyright year: 2014
History of the University of Alabama
Volume One, 1818-1902
University of Alabama Press
A history of the University of Alabama from 1818 to 1902.
- Copyright year: 1953
Heart of Palms
My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla
By Meredith W. Cornett; Foreword by Florence Reed
University of Alabama Press
Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester.
- Copyright year: 2014
List
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hum
Stories
By Michelle Richmond; Foreword by Rikki Ducornet
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A new collection of stories by bestselling author Michelle Richmond, Hum presents a cautionary political fable, a celebration of the complexities of marriage, and a meditation on modern-day alienation.
- Copyright year: 2014
Theories of Forgetting
By Lance Olsen
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Island Called Paradise
Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts
University of Alabama Press
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.
- Copyright year: 2014
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