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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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
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5
Edited by Ericha Shelton-Nix
University of Alabama Press
Collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012
- Copyright year: 2017
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Edited by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness; Introduction by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness
University of Alabama Press
A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies
- Copyright year: 2017
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
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
Alabama Afternoons
Profiles and Conversations
By Roy Hoffman
University of Alabama Press
A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman
Modernism the Morning After
By Bob Perelman
University of Alabama Press
Articulates a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future
- Copyright year: 2017
Earline's Pink Party
The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman
By Elizabeth Findley Shores; Introduction by Elizabeth Findley Shores
University of Alabama Press
In Earline’s Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family’s scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother’s life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast
University of Alabama Press
Explores the evolution of houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (ca. 200 BC to 1800 AD)
- Copyright year: 2017