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 History Studies 2016, Vol. 35

Edited by Sara Freeman; Introduction by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press

Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The World as Presence/El mundo como ser

By Marcelo Morales; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press

 "Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry" (https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/announcing-the-2017-national-translation-award-longlists-for-poetry-and-prose/).

Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms

Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast

University of Alabama Press

Rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans
 

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Eleventh House

Memoirs

By Hudson Strode; Introduction by Don Noble
University of Alabama Press

The Eleventh House is a remarkable memoir by an influential critic, teacher, world traveler, and raconteur whose sheer exuberance helped to form a network of literary friendships unparalleled in twentieth-century arts and letters. Hudson Strode—writer, gardener, gourmet, and world traveler—proceeds from his childhood home in Alabama to the international literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, recounting meetings with Eugene O'Neill, H. L. Mencken, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, the Prince of Wales, and the King of Sweden.

  • Copyright year: 1975
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The Domesticated Penis

How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood

University of Alabama Press

Demonstrates that not only natural selection but also female choice has played a key role in shaping male anatomy
 

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Public Administration's Final Exam

A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline

University of Alabama Press

Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance

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Imperfect Fit

Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950

By Allen Fisher; Foreword by Pierre Joris
University of Alabama Press

Imperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher’s remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Bonapartists in the Borderlands

French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835

University of Alabama Press

Discusses the ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America's westward expansion and the French Revolution
 

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism

University of Alabama Press

Examines the origin, elements, and evolving significance of the “tides” in his discourse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both American music and literature from 1920 to 1929

  • Copyright year: 2015
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