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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Practice of Rhetoric
Poetics, Performance, Philosophy
Edited by Debra Hawhee and Vessela Valiavitcharska
University of Alabama Press
Essays that show what a broad conception of rhetoric means and does in relation to practice
- Copyright year: 2022
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
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
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
Writing into the Future
New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital
By Alan Golding
University of Alabama Press
A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry
- Copyright year: 2022
Sounds of Tohi
Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia
By Lisa J. Lefler and Thomas N. Belt; Foreword by T. J. Holland and Pamela Duncan; Afterword by Tom Hatley
University of Alabama Press
Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issues
- Copyright year: 2022
Dear Denise
Letters to the Sister I Never Knew
By Lisa McNair
University of Alabama Press
Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
- Copyright year: 2022
Shame
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A kaleidoscopic sequence of autofictional narratives about identity, grief, and narrative itself
- Copyright year: 2022
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
Jack London and the Sea
By Anita Duneer
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer
- Copyright year: 2022
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
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
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
The Rhetoric of Fascism
Edited by Nathan Crick
University of Alabama Press
Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals
- Copyright year: 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
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
Faithful Deliberation
Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings
By T J Geiger
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
The Attention of a Traveller
Essays on William Bartram's "Travels" and Legacy
Edited by Kathryn H. Braund
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
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
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
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
Reframing Rhetorical History
Cases, Theories, and Methodologies
Edited by Kathleen J. Turner and Jason Edward Black; Preface by Kathleen J. Turner; Introduction by Jason Edward Black
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical history
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
Getting Out of the Mud
The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928
By Martin T. Olliff; Foreword by David O. Whitten
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
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
Tell Mother I'm in Paradise
Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador
Edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson; By Ana Margarita Gasteazoro; Introduction by Erik Ching
University of Alabama Press
The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience
- Copyright year: 2022
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
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
By Lee Rozelle
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
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
Their Determination to Remain
A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina
By Lance Greene
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
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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