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.
Showing 1,111-1,140 of 1,988 items.
A New Vision for Missions
William Cameron Townsend, The Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945
University of Alabama Press
A deep biography of the pioneering missionary William Cameron Townsend
- Copyright year: 2008
Conflict in the Great Outdoors
Toward Understanding and Managing for Diverse Sportsmen Preferences
By Hobson Bryan; Foreword by David Scott
University of Alabama Press
Conflict in the Great Outdoors addresses the different orientations and behaviors within sportsmen categories.
- Copyright year: 2008
Alabama Blast Furnaces
By Joseph H. Woodward; Introduction by James R. Bennett
University of Alabama Press
Go to resource on all the furnaces that made Alabama internationally significant in the iron and steel industry
- Copyright year: 2007
American Denominational History
Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Edited by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press
Brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature
- Copyright year: 2008
Moundville
University of Alabama Press
Moundville tells the story of the ancient people who lived there, the modern struggle to save the site from destruction, and the scientific saga of the archaeologists who brought the story to life. Moundville is the book to read before, during, or after a visit to Alabama’s prehistoric metropolis
- Copyright year: 2008
King
The Social Archaeology of a Late Mississippian Town in Northwestern Georgia
By David Hally
University of Alabama Press
The King site represents a nearly ideal opportunity to identify the kinds of status positions that were held by individual inhabitants; analyze individual households and investigate the roles they played in King site society; reconstruct the community that existed at King, including size, life history, symbolic associations, and integrative mechanisms; and place King in the larger regional political system.
- Copyright year: 2008
Gone to the Swamp
Raw Materials for the Good Life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
This fascinating and instructive book is the careful and unpretentious account of a man who was artful in all the skills needed to survive and raise a family in an area where most people would be lost or helpless. Smith’s story is an important record of a way of life beginning to disappear, a loss not fully yet realized. We are lucky to have a work that is both instructive and warm-hearted and that preserves so much hard-won knowledge.
- Copyright year: 2008
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 16
Comedy Tonight!
Edited by Jay Malarcher
University of Alabama Press
Comedy Tonight! in Volume 16 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium illustrate well the range of material that falls under the heading "comedy" as it is played on stage.
- Copyright year: 2008
Theatre History Studies 2008, Vol. 28
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.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Alphabet
By Ron Silliman
University of Alabama Press
A remarkable and notorious literary achievement
- Copyright year: 2008
Ledfeather
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been, but what will be
- Copyright year: 2008
Freshwater Mussels of Alabama and the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive accounting of the richest mussel fauna in the US
- Copyright year: 2008
The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia
The Drums of Life
University of Alabama Press
Through interviews with 26 Monacans, one Episcopal minister appointed to serve them, one former clerk of the court for Amherst County, and her own story, Whitlock provides first person accounts of what happened to the Monacan families and how their very existence as Indians was threatened.
- Copyright year: 2008
Time's River
Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley
Edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock
University of Alabama Press
An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbance
- Copyright year: 2008
African Americans in the Reconstruction of Florida, 1865-1877
University of Alabama Press
Exploration of African American contributions to the state of Florida during the era of Reconstruction
- Copyright year: 2008
Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist
Selected Writings on Revolution, Recognition, and Race
University of Alabama Press
An immigrant to Mobile from Switzerland becomes a passionate promoter of the Confederacy
- Copyright year: 2008
America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945
By Stephen L. McFarland; Introduction by Richard P. Hallion
University of Alabama Press
A meticulously researched and lively account of the secret development of the renowned Norden bombsight and its relationship to American strategic bombing doctrine and practice.
- Copyright year: 2008
Pre-Columbian Jamaica
University of Alabama Press
Pre-Columbian Jamaica represents the first substantial attempt to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island in a single published account since J. E. Duerden’s invaluable 1897 article on the subject, which is also reprinted within this volume.
- Copyright year: 2008
Song of Tides
By Tom Joseph
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
The Calusa's historic repulsion of 16th-century Spanish occupiers
- Copyright year: 2008
The Old Beloved Path
Daily Life amond the Indians of the Chattahooche River Valley
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
The Old Beloved Path provides an engaging and authoritative introduction to the lives of native Americans in the Chattahoochee river region.
- Copyright year: 2008
Area and Administration
By James W. Fesler; Introduction by Donald F. Kettl
University of Alabama Press
An updated classic of public administration
- Copyright year: 2008
Looking for Lost Lore
Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography
University of Alabama Press
Folklore as a serious adjunct to history, anthropology, and religious studies
- Copyright year: 2008
In the Path of the Storms
Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast
University of Alabama Press, Pebble Hill Books
In the Path of the Storms is touching and heroic portrait of two Alabama Gulf Coast communities.
- Copyright year: 2008
Battle
The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat
Edited by Kent Gramm
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays that reveals the reality of war behind the pageantry of the American Civil War
- Copyright year: 2008
Archaeology and Geoinformatics
Case Studies from the Caribbean
Edited by Basil A. Reid
University of Alabama Press
Provides tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers
- Copyright year: 2008
Full Fathom Five
A Daughter's Search
University of Alabama Press
One woman’s quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea
- Copyright year: 2008
It's a New Day
Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
University of Alabama Press
Examines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society
- Copyright year: 2008
America's Battalion
Marines in the First Gulf War
University of Alabama Press
Tells the experiences of one unit, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, during Operation Desert Storm
- Copyright year: 2008