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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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
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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
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Ecosublime

Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld

University of Alabama Press

Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America

  • Copyright year: 2006
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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
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Clotilda

The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship

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
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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
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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
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Always Crashing in the Same Car

A Novel after David Bowie

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Theatre History Studies 2022, Vol 41

University of Alabama Press

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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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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The Failure of Our Fathers

Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama

University of Alabama Press

An in-depth study of non-elite white families in Alabama—from the state’s creation through the end of the Civil War
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Smothered and Covered

Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary

University of Alabama Press

A critical meditation of the iconic 24-7 roadside chain and its place in the southern imaginary
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis

A Geologic Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

A rhetorical exploration of an underexamined side of climate change—the ongoing research into and development of geoengineering strategies
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Two

University of Alabama Press

Fresh new perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from SoulCycle to Mark Twain
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Becoming Catawba

Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840

University of Alabama Press

The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs that helped them create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Practice of Rhetoric

Poetics, Performance, Philosophy

University of Alabama Press

Essays that show what a broad conception of rhetoric means and does in relation to practice
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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No One to Meet

Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan

University of Alabama Press

A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitioner
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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My Haunted Home

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Meditations on the ways grief is felt and harvested—the funny, the sorrowful, the surreal, and the unmentionable
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Life in a Mississippian Warscape

Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes Mississippian daily life at Cahokia’s environs during wartime
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Writing into the Future

New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital

University of Alabama Press

A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Sounds of Tohi

Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia

University of Alabama Press

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Dear Denise

Letters to the Sister I Never Knew

University of Alabama Press

Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Shame

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A kaleidoscopic sequence of autofictional narratives about identity, grief, and narrative itself
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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To Do Justice

The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes

University of Alabama Press

Biography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutions
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Jack London and the Sea

University of Alabama Press

The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer

 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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We Shall Build Anew

Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism

University of Alabama Press

How Rabbi Stephen S. Wise changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first

 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

University of Alabama Press

The definitive book on what is known about the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological record in the Southeast
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle

Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England

University of Alabama Press

A study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Rhetoric of Fascism

Edited by Nathan Crick
University of Alabama Press

Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Benefit Street

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
 
A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Maurice Samuel

Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian

University of Alabama Press

An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Ascension

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed relationship with nature
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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An Archaeologist's Guide to Organic Residues in Pottery

University of Alabama Press

A guide for mastering the technical specialty of organic residue analysis of pottery
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Indians Playing Indian

Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America

University of Alabama Press

Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Haunting Realities

Naturalist Gothic and American Realism

Edited by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden; Introduction by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden
University of Alabama Press

An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Faithful Deliberation

Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings

University of Alabama Press

Investigates the rhetorical practices used by contemporary evangelical Christian women to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Attention of a Traveller

Essays on William Bartram's "Travels" and Legacy

University of Alabama Press

New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartram’s journey through what would become the southeastern United States
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Surviving Spanish Conquest

Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

University of Alabama Press

Reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550

  • Copyright year: 2017
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When the Wolf Camped at Our Door

My Childhood in the Great Depression

University of Alabama Press

Recounts the hardships and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors experienced in a close-knit southern rural community during the Great Depression
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Evangelical News

Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and how it navigated and sustained religious convictions in a time of dramatic social change
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Reframing Rhetorical History

Cases, Theories, and Methodologies

University of Alabama Press

A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical history
 

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Illusion Is More Precise than Precision

The Poetry of Marianne Moore

University of Alabama Press

Erickson examines the work of Marianne Moore in order to provide some consistently successful strategies for understanding her poetry

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Getting Out of the Mud

The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928

University of Alabama Press

Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobiles

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Great Beyond

Art in the Age of Annihilation

University of Alabama Press

Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality—forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador

University of Alabama Press

The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience

 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Crayfishes of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive assessment of the 99 known species of crayfishes inhabiting the state of Alabama

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones

Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"

University of Alabama Press

A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Distracted by Alabama

Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore

University of Alabama Press

 Bestselling reflections on fifty years of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama by an Alabama writers and scholar
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Their Determination to Remain

A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina

University of Alabama Press

The remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 29

Theatre and Race

Edited by Andrew Gibb
University of Alabama Press

Essays whose composition and editing were undertaken almost entirely within the transformed cultural and professional landscape of 2020
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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