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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San Jacinto 1

A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia

University of Alabama Press

A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who produced fiber-tempered ceramics.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Rhetorical Women

Roles and Representations

University of Alabama Press

A collection representing a surprisingly varied range of roles or personas women have adopted to be able to speak or write publicly

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Making Medical Doctors

Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner

University of Alabama Press

A study of the union of science and medicine in a particularly illustrative institutional setting

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Advancing American Art

Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A representative collection of avant-garde American painting from the 1930s and ’40s
 

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Caribbean Paleodemography

Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico

University of Alabama Press

A high significant discussion of Caribbean archaeology and a fascinating introduction to paleodemography

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Cannoneers in Gray

The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A highly regarded resource on a critical aspect of the Civil War

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Standing the Gaff

The Life and Hard Times of a Minor League Umpire

By Harry Johnson; Introduction by Larry Gerlach
University of Alabama Press

The rowdy adolescence of baseball, told by the game’s first autobiographical umpire

  • Copyright year: 2005
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A Blockaded Family

Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

University of Alabama Press

Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Westo Indians

Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive study that rescues the Westo from obscurity.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Making of Saints

Contesting Sacred Ground

Edited by James F Hopgood
University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary study of the commonalities between heroes, icons, saints, and their institutions, across several cultures.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia

By Carol I. Mason; Introduction by Marvin T. Smith; Foreword by Marvin T. Smith
University of Alabama Press

A 17th-century trading post and Indian town in central Georgia reveal evidence of culture contact and change
 

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Freedom Quilting Bee

Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Public Libraries in Nazi Germany

University of Alabama Press

National Socialist state control of a public institution.

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Plains Earthlodges

Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives

University of Alabama Press

 

A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains. This collection explores current research in the ethnography and archaeology of Plains earthlodges, and considers a variety of Plains tribes, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, and their late prehistoric period predecessors.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Colonial Search For A Southern Eden

University of Alabama Press

Colonial Search for a Southern Eden details how European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World.

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The Americas That Might Have Been

Native American Social Systems through Time

University of Alabama Press

Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization
 

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Forgetfulness

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

The first part of Forgetfulness is a fictional monograph on the life of the Austrian modernist composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945).

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Juarez Myth In Mexico

University of Alabama Press

The embodiment of a myth—Benito Juarez

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Old Mobile Archaeology

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Archaeological excavations since 1989 have uncovered exciting evidence of the original townsite of Mobile, first capital of the Louisiana colony, and remnants of the colony's port on Dauphin Island.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Transmitting the Past

Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting

University of Alabama Press

Original essays exploring important developments in radio and television broadcasting
 

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Satchel Paige's America

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Captures the sometimes outrageous, often humorous, and always bigger-than-life spirit of the World's Greatest Pitcher, Leroy Satchel Paige

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Ethnographers In The Field

The Psychology of Research

University of Alabama Press

A study of how doing field research submerged in a different culture impacts one's sense of identity.


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Distant Reading

Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry

University of Alabama Press

Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance—recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen—rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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A Rogue's Paradise

Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1861

University of Alabama Press

A revealing portrait of law-breaking and law enforcement on the Florida frontier

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Border Diplomacy

The Caroline and McLeod Affairs in Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1837-1842

University of Alabama Press

How the United States began to mature and establish itself as a nation contributing to international law

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When Good Men Do Nothing

The Assassination Of Albert Patterson

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story."

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Music Education in the United States

Contemporary Issues

Edited by J. Terry Gates
University of Alabama Press

Reflects the current issues in music education and the ongoing attempt to overcome obstacles to excellence in teaching music

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Billions for Defense

Government Finance by the Defense Plant Corporation During World War II

University of Alabama Press

A full-dress study of the Defense Plant Corporation
 

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The Southern States Since The War

University of Alabama Press

An extraordinarily valuable contribution to the history of the South during Reconstruction

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