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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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 19
Theatre and Film
Edited by J K Curry
University of Alabama Press
The essays in Theatre Symposium: Volume 19 shed light on the current state of affairs—the collaborations and the tensions—between two distinctly individual yet inextricably related artistic media: theatre and film.
- Copyright year: 2011
Theatre History Studies 2011, Vol. 31
Edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2011
The Poisoned Chalice
Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism
University of Alabama Press
Examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years
Islands at the Crossroads
Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean
Edited by L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser
University of Alabama Press
The contributors to Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and layered ways in which both distant and more intimate sociocultural, political, and economic interactions have shaped Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent times.
- Copyright year: 2011
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
University of Alabama Press
In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have waged an ethical debate regarding the development and research of embryonic stem cells. On the one hand, does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? On the other hand, do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm the patients who might otherwise benefit?
- Copyright year: 2011
Money and Modernity
Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
By Alec Marsh
University of Alabama Press
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.
Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
This volume addresses the problem of how Caribbean nations deal with the challenges of protecting their cultural heritages or patrimonies within the context of pressing economic development concerns.
- Copyright year: 2011
Imagining Legality
Where Law Meets Popular Culture
Edited by Austin Sarat
University of Alabama Press
Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image—that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Voice of the River
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The search for a missing boy and his dog illuminiates the inner lives of a multitude of individuals with charged needs and desires; a confession of faith, and a love song to the world.
- Copyright year: 2011
W. C. Handy
The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
University of Alabama Press
David Robertson charts W. C. Handy’s rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2011
As If a Bird Flew By Me
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Two women, separated by time and place, yoked by heritage and history
- Copyright year: 2011
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Edited by Kendall R. Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes
University of Alabama Press
Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.
- Copyright year: 2011
Thirteen Loops
Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
University of Alabama Press
A vivid and troubling portrait of violence, lynching, and race relations over a fifty-year period in the state of Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2011
Four for a Quarter
Fictions
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Four is the magic number in Michael Martone’s Four for a Quarter. In subject—four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four—and in structure—the book is separated into four sections, with each section further divided into four chapterettes—Four for a Quarter returns again and again to its originating number, making chaos comprehensible and mystery out of the most ordinary.
- Copyright year: 2011
Keeping the Faith
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
By Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
Wayne Flynt tells the story of his life and his courageous battles against an indifferent or hostile power structure with modesty but always with honesty. In doing so he tells us the story of how Alabama institutions really are manipulated, and why we should care.
- Copyright year: 2011
Sold Down the River
Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
By Anthony Gene Carey; Other primary creator Historic Chattahoochee Historic Chattahoochee Commission
University of Alabama Press
Examines a small part of slavery’s North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia
- Copyright year: 2011
The Kings of Casino Park
Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
University of Alabama Press
Aiello addresses long-held misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the Louisiana Monarchs black baseball team’s 1932 season. He tells the almost-unknown story of the team—its time, its fortunes, its hometown—and positions black baseball in the context of American racial discrimination. He illuminates the culture-changing power of a baseball team and the importance of sport in cultural and social history.
- Copyright year: 2011
For the Love of Alabama
Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson
University of Alabama Press
For the Love of Alabama is a compilation of the most poignant and trenchant writing—editorials, reportage, and columns—by two of Alabama’s most committed and reform-minded journalists. Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson both died young: Casey at forty-eight and Thomson at fifty-four. Nevertheless, through their work at the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register, respectively, they labored tirelessly to illuminate and confront the state’s chronic and interrelated problems of race, government, education, and poverty.
- Copyright year: 2011
Year of the Pig
University of Alabama Press
Year of the Pig is a personal journal of one avid hunter's pursuit of wild pigs in eleven American states during the Chinese calendar's "Year of the Pig" (2007).
- Copyright year: 2011
A Soldier's Story of His Regiment (61st Georgia)
And Incidentally of the Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade Army of Northern Virginia
Introduction by Keith S. Bohannon; By George Washington Nichols
University of Alabama Press
One of the classic narratives of front line infantry service in the Army of Northern Virginia
- Copyright year: 2011
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