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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Word Toys

Poetry and Technics

University of Alabama Press

An engaging and thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Unity in Christ and Country

American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801

University of Alabama Press

Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Ancient Ocean Crossings

Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas

University of Alabama Press

Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another
 

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5

University of Alabama Press

Collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012

  • Copyright year: 2017
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What Democracy Looks Like

The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics

University of Alabama Press

A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art

University of Alabama Press

In both his short fiction and major works, Nathaniel Hawthorne, like many romantics, is torn between the eighteenth-century view of an orderly, balanced, static art and universe, on the one hand, and the nineteenth-century conception of a changeful, various art on the other. Hawthorne based his social and psychological values on an organic view of the world, but the world of his art tended to be mechanistic. Johnson argues that Hawthorne found in theology the myths which became vehicles for his exploration of his art.

  • Copyright year: 1981
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Sarah Orne Jewett

Reconstructing Gender

University of Alabama Press
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John Archibald Campbell

Southern Moderate, 1811–1889

University of Alabama Press

The first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states’ rights

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Alabama Afternoons

Profiles and Conversations

University of Alabama Press

A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman

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Modernism the Morning After

University of Alabama Press

Articulates a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future

  • Copyright year: 2017
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