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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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.
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.
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
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
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
Head Masters
Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
University of Alabama Press
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced
- Copyright year: 2005
Stubborn Poetries
Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde
University of Alabama Press
Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon.
- Copyright year: 2013
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
By Ira Wells
University of Alabama Press
An entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters
- Copyright year: 2013
The Irony of the Solid South
Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944
University of Alabama Press
The Irony of the Solid South examines how the south became the “Solid South” for the Democratic Party andhow that solidarity began to crack with the advent of American involvement in World War II.
- Copyright year: 2013
Frank Norris Remembered
Edited by Jesse S. Crisler and Joseph R. McElrath
University of Alabama Press
Frank Norris Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by Norris’s contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of America’s most popular novelists.
- Copyright year: 2013
Their Blood Runs Cold
Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
University of Alabama Press
Their Blood Runs Cold is entertaining, informative reading that not only enhances our understanding of a unique group of animals, but also provides genuine insight into the mind and character of a research scientist.
Brutes or Angels
Human Possibility in the Age of Biotechnology
University of Alabama Press
A guide to the rapidly progressing Age of Biotechnology, Brutes or Angels provides basic information on a wide array of new technologies in the life sciences, along with the ethical issues raised by each
- Copyright year: 2013
Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States
University of Alabama Press
Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States is a full-color, highly illustrated guide to the sixty-four known species of mosquitoes in eleven genera that populate the South--from the Gulf Coastal states to the Carolinas.
- Copyright year: 2013
Opening the Doors
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama Press
Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement.
- Copyright year: 2013
They Dragged Them through the Streets
A Novel
By Hilary Plum
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Hilary Plum’s grave and elegant novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets is a bold meditation on human suffering and the sorrowful challenges of men and women striving for collective change.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Pet Thief
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind’s inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world.
- Copyright year: 2013
Traces of Gold
California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West
South by Southwest
Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History
University of Alabama Press
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.
- Copyright year: 2013
Heaven's Soldiers
Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida
By Frank Marotti; Introduction by Frank Marotti
University of Alabama Press
Heaven’s Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.
- Copyright year: 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation
University of Alabama Press
Examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people in ethnography and in anthropological work
- Copyright year: 2013
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