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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Bulgaria's Synagogue Poets

The Kastoreans

Edited by Leon J. Weinberger; Introduction by Leon J. Weinberger
University of Alabama Press

Critical Edition with introduction and commentary by Leon J. Weinberger

  • Copyright year: 1109
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Theatre History Studies 1983, Vol. 3

Edited by Ron Engle
University of Alabama Press
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Music for a Broken Piano

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

The impact and interplay within a group of 40 people, imbued with revolutionary spirit

  • Copyright year: 1983
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With a Southern Accent

University of Alabama Press

“Liddell’s autobiography has a sunlit quality and gives a picture of a happy childhood in a little town in Alabama. Her recollections of family life are humorous, nostalgic, vivid and full of the bright, clear air of youth.” – Book of the Month Club News

  • Copyright year: 1982
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Up Before Daylight

Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939

University of Alabama Press

These compelling accounts of hard times and hard work reveal human courage, dignity, and resilience from a generation that endured the Great Depression.

  • Copyright year: 1982
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Theatre History Studies 1982, Vol. 2

Edited by Ron Engle
University of Alabama Press
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Hugo Black

The Alabama Years

University of Alabama Press

A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to the Court

  • Copyright year: 1982
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Literature at the Barricades

The American Writer in the 1930s

University of Alabama Press

 This collection captures the sense—at times the ordeal—of the 1930s literary experience in America. Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems and pressures that characterized the experience of American writers and influenced their works.

  • Copyright year: 1982
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My Father More or Less

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Deals with the confrontation between an aggrieved 18 year old boy and his estranged novelist-turned-screenwriter father

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Winnebago Mysteries and Other Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Fresh writings about women, love, and strength

  • Copyright year: 1982
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History of Metals in Colonial America

University of Alabama Press

In the struggle to create an indigenous industry, in the efforts to encourage and support the work of metals craftsmen, in the defiance of British attempts to regulate manufacturing of metals, the colonial society developed a metals technology that became the basis for future industrial growth.

  • Copyright year: 1981
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Four Roses in Three Acts

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

It is Paris and the Twenties again and Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway are much alive.

  • Copyright year: 1981
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New Public Administration

University of Alabama Press

This book is generally about public administration and particularly about new public administration, a product of the turbulent late 1960s and the 1970s.

  • Copyright year: 1980
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The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

The only comprehensive book about the state's 182 species and subspecies of snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, and salamanders

  • Copyright year: 1980
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Romaniote Penitential Poetry

University of Alabama Press

A collection of Penitential poems for the Days of Awe that bears eloquent witness to a once-flourishing Romaniote presence in the Balkan states during early Byzantine times

  • Copyright year: 1980
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Chez Charlotte and Emily

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
  • Copyright year: 1979
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Rope Dances

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Many strangenesses may be found in this rare and rarefied collection, rendered in a powerful and careful prose

  • Copyright year: 1979
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Holy Smoke

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
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Emergency Exit

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

People in a town in Connecticut that have just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times

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Meningitis

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

An extraordinary collection from the Ukrainian émigré writer Tarnawsky.

  • Copyright year: 1978
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The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1977
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1777

The Year of the Hangman

University of Alabama Press

A detailed study of the British invasion from Canada during the War of Independence

  • Copyright year: 1977
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Statements 2

New Fiction

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Brings together fiction of wide-ranging visions and styles

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Moving Parts

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Explore the four Moving Parts through which obsession exfoliates identity

  • Copyright year: 1977
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Amateur People

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A book capable of making us change the ways we like to think of ourselves

  • Copyright year: 1977
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Temporary Sanity

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Explores a fictional county where the desperation of dirt farming produces a mind that questions not just the limits of sanity, but indeed its rightful continent
 

  • Copyright year: 1976
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Comatose Kids

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A 93-year old European Doktor kidnaps two hopeless cases from their hospitals and attempts to cure them by convincing them that they are long-lost lovers

  • Copyright year: 1976
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Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present

University of Alabama Press

Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics

  • Copyright year: 1975
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American Public Administration

Past, Present, Future

University of Alabama Press

A seminal collection of essays, addressing such questions as the evolving roles of civil servants, the education and training of civil servants, and the ways to balance civil servants’ expertise with respect for democratic governance
 

  • Copyright year: 1975
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The Secret Table

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Two novellas of young men embracing a mystical past

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