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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Between Two Homelands
Argentine Migration to and from Israel
University of Alabama Press
Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines migrated to and from Israel
- Copyright year: 2024
Anything but Novel
Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative
University of Alabama Press
The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes
- Copyright year: 2024
There Is Only One Ghost in the World
By Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A rabbit hole of memory and longing
- Copyright year: 2023
School
A Novel
By Ray Levy
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Both a needed exorcism of academia and a comedic portrait of the artist seeking some means to survive
- Copyright year: 2023
Written in the Sky
Lessons of a Southern Daughter
University of Alabama Press
Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide
- Copyright year: 2023
Dixie Heretic
The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy
University of Alabama Press
A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy
- Copyright year: 2023
Bowed Some, Chanted a Little
Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance
Edited by Brian Unger; By Philip Whalen
University of Alabama Press
The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest
- Copyright year: 2023
Dreamer Nation
Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth
- Copyright year: 2023
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials
How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945
University of Alabama Press
Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I
- Copyright year: 2021
Tense Times
Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture
University of Alabama Press
How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes
- Copyright year: 2023
Ways to Disappear
Stories
By Victoria Lancelotta; Foreword by Cristina Rivera Garza
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Prize in Innovative Fiction
- Copyright year: 2023
Sustaining Air
The Life of Larry Eigner
University of Alabama Press
The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry
- Copyright year: 2023
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
University of Alabama Press
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
- Copyright year: 2023
Soloveitchik's Children
Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America
University of Alabama Press
A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
- Copyright year: 2023
Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice
Transformational Action for Positive Peace
University of Alabama Press
Introduces an analytic model for how archaeologists can work toward social justice
- Copyright year: 2023
Congress of States
Proceedings of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America
Edited by David Carlson
University of Alabama Press
A landmark publication of public reports that reveal the founding of the Confederate government
The Archaeology of Protestant Landscapes
Revealing the Formation of Community Identity in the US South
University of Alabama Press
How religious institutions used landscapes and architecture to express their religious and social ideologies
- Copyright year: 2023
Oktoberfest in Brazil
Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity
By Audrey Ricke
University of Alabama Press
An ethnography that explores Brazil’s domestic tourism through sensescapes and the economy of aesthetics framework
- Copyright year: 2023
Plant Foods of Greece
A Culinary Journey to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages
University of Alabama Press
A synthesis of culinary practices of prehistoric Greece based on plant food ingredients
- Copyright year: 2023
Glancing Visions
Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
University of Alabama Press
How the “glance” rather than the “gaze” in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism
Bold Conscience
Luther to Shakespeare to Milton
University of Alabama Press
How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action
- Copyright year: 2023
Playing House in the American West
Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839–1987
University of Alabama Press
Examines an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life
- Copyright year: 2013
This Incurable Evil
Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687
University of Alabama Press
Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families
- Copyright year: 2023
Sowing the Forest
A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes
University of Alabama Press
Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests
- Copyright year: 2023
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
- Copyright year: 2023
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport’s Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
- Copyright year: 2023
Learning from Birmingham
A Journey into History and Home
University of Alabama Press
A steel town daughter’s search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama
- Copyright year: 2023
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30
Theatre and Politics
Edited by Chase Bringardner
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates how theatre’s engagement with politics changes over time
- Copyright year: 2023
Unguessed Kinships
Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
By Steven Frye
University of Alabama Press
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists
- Copyright year: 2023
I Am Fighting for the Union
The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells
By Henry Willis Wells; Edited by Robert M. Browning Jr.
University of Alabama Press
An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy
- Copyright year: 2023
From Mammies to Militants
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
University of Alabama Press
Focuses on the issue of stereotypes of Black women
- Copyright year: 2023
Thicker Than Water
Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama
University of Alabama Press
Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe
- Copyright year: 2023
Ecosublime
Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
By Lee Rozelle
University of Alabama Press
Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America
- Copyright year: 2006
A Long Essay on the Long Poem
Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices
University of Alabama Press
A masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms—the long poem
- Copyright year: 2023
Clotilda
The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship
By James P. Delgado, Deborah E. Marx, Kyle Lent, Joseph Grinnan, and Alexander DeCaro; Foreword by Lisa D. Jones and Stacye Hathorn
University of Alabama Press
Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda
- Copyright year: 2023
Pulpits of the Lost Cause
The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction
University of Alabama Press
Compares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period
- Copyright year: 2023
Atomic Environments
Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age
- Copyright year: 2023
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A Novel after David Bowie
By Lance Olsen
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days
- Copyright year: 2023
Theatre History Studies 2022, Vol 41
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press
The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference
- Copyright year: 2023
Staging America
The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive history of the Provincetown Players arguing for its role as the birthplace of modern American theatre
- Copyright year: 2023
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