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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Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship
University of Alabama Press
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society.
- Copyright year: 2013
F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.
- Copyright year: 2003
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross
Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South
University of Alabama Press
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt
Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax
By Molly Guptill Manning; Foreword by John Train
University of Alabama Press
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Darkness of the Present
Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly
University of Alabama Press
The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.
- Copyright year: 2012
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
University of Alabama Press
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
By Mark Newman
University of Alabama Press
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed
Frances Newman
Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel
University of Alabama Press
This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance
Germany in Central America
Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes the German role in Central American domestic and international relations
- Copyright year: 1999
Roosevelt the Reformer
Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895
University of Alabama Press
Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington
Party Organization and Activism in the American South
University of Alabama Press
Maps the ways political parties remain vital components in the American political system, especially in the eleven states in the South
The Presidency and Public Policy
The Four Arenas of Presidential Power
University of Alabama Press
Southern Parties and Elections
Studies in Regional Political Change
University of Alabama Press
Clarifies the recent and dramatic development of party competition in the South
Red Eagle's Children
Weatherford vs. Weatherford et al.
University of Alabama Press
Red Eagle’s Children presents the legal proceedings in an inheritance dispute that serves as an unexpected window on the intersection of two cultural and legal systems: Creek Indian and Euro-American.
- Copyright year: 2012
An Uncompromising Secessionist
The Civil War of George Knox Miller, Eighth (Wade's) Confederate Cavalry
By George Knox Miller; Edited by Richard M. McMurry
University of Alabama Press
Offers significant insight into the life, heart, mind, and attitudes of an intelligent, educated, young mid-19th-century white Southerner
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
University of Alabama Press
Provides a penetrating analysis of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley
- Copyright year: 2012
Founding Fictions
University of Alabama Press
An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
Ferns of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A much-needed field guide to the more than 120 species of ferns and fern allies occurring naturally in the state
- Copyright year: 2012
The Disappearing South?
Studies in Regional Change and Continuity
University of Alabama Press
There is widespread agreement that the South has changed dramatically since the end of World War II—the essays in The Disappearing South address the ongoing debate
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