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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Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers

University of Alabama Press

Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture.

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Rhetoric and the Republic

Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America

University of Alabama Press

Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Race and Displacement

Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Maha Marouan and Merinda Simmons; Foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr.; Introduction by Philip D. Beidler; Afterword by Trudier Harris
University of Alabama Press

Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Expectation

A Francesca Fruscella Mystery

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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From a Love of History

The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces one of the most important archives of southern history and literature ever gathered in one place.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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The Life of Selina Campbell

A Fellow Soldier in the Cause of Restoration

University of Alabama Press

This first biography of Selina Campbell opens a window onto the experience of women in one of the most dynamic religious groups of 19th-century America

  • Copyright year: 2001
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"Fear God and Walk Humbly"

The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877

University of Alabama Press

A detailed journal of local, national, and foreign news, agricultural activities, the weather, and family events, from an uncommon Southerner

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Laboring to Play

Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920

University of Alabama Press

A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time.

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The University of Alabama

A Guide to the Campus and Its Architecture

University of Alabama Press

The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campusand Its Architecture is a richly illustrated guidebook to the architecture and development of the University of Alabama’s campus as it has evolved over the last two centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes

By Amy Eisenberg; Introduction by Amy Eisenberg; Preface by Amy Eisenberg
University of Alabama Press

Explores the relationship between indigenous people, the management of natural resources, and the development process in a modernizing region of Chile
 

  • Copyright year: 2013
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We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple

Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism

University of Alabama Press

By focusing on Roosevelt’s rhetorical constructions of national identity, as opposed to his personal exploits or his role as a policy maker, We Are All Americans offers new insights into Roosevelt’s use of public discourse to bind the nation together during one of the most polarized  periods in its history.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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A Florida Fiddler

The Life and Times of Richard Seaman

University of Alabama Press

A musical life as glorious metaphor for Florida's cultural landscape
 

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Escaping Hitler

A Jewish Haven in Chile

University of Alabama Press

Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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From Princess to Chief

Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina

University of Alabama Press

A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina. 
 

  • Copyright year: 2013
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An Alabama Songbook

Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals Collected by Byron Arnold

University of Alabama Press

A lavish presentation of 208 folksongs collected throughout Alabama in the 1940s

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Sounding Real

Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

University of Alabama Press

Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Rabbi Max Heller

Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929

University of Alabama Press

This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.

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When Colleges Sang

The Story of Singing in American College Life

University of Alabama Press

When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had

The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley

University of Alabama Press

This rare correspondence between a soldier and his wife relates in poignant detail the struggle for survival on the battlefield as well as on the home front and gives voice to the underrepresented class of small farmers

  • Copyright year: 2002
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After Wallace

The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama

University of Alabama Press

All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness

  • Copyright year: 2009
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