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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Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley

12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago

University of Alabama Press

In Foraging the Tennessee River Valley, 12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago, Hollenbach analyzes and compares botanical remains from archaeological excavations in four rockshelters in the Middle Tennessee River Valley.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Fair to Middlin'

The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley

University of Alabama Press

Explores the livelihood of the regional antebellum economy surrounding the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River valley and the resulting global impact of this industry
 

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Headwaters

A Journey on Alabama Rivers

University of Alabama Press

A breathtaking portrait of Alabama rivers

  • Copyright year: 2009
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A Family Home

A History of the President's Mansion at Auburn University

University of Alabama Press

A peek into the lives of the families that called Auburn University’s President’s home.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Emperor's Last Campaign

A Napoleonic Empire in America

University of Alabama Press

The fascinating story of the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Archaeology of Institutional Life

University of Alabama Press

A landmark work that will instigate vigorous and wide-ranging discussions on institutions in Western life, and the power of material culture to both enforce and negate cultural norms
 

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TOC

A New Media Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

TOC is a multimedia epic about time—the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Rhetorical Education In America

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Language in Exile

Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole

University of Alabama Press

"An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features."
--SECOL Review

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Ad Hominem Arguments

University of Alabama Press

A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Mainly the Truth

Interviews with Mark Twain

University of Alabama Press
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Impotent

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

M— is married with children and working a dead end job solely for the insurance and meager income. He’s in a financial and emotional trough, and thus asks his doctor for Paxil because he's worried he'll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L— is a college dropout and construction worker. He self-medicates, starting with Ambien. After he accidentally cuts off some fingers he switches to Darvocet. Later his doctor leads him to Zoloft, once the cocktail of pharmaceuticals. The medicine is meant to wake him up, but instead puts him to sleep.     
 

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Forms at War

FC2 1999-2009

Edited by Ralph M. Berry
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Crossing the River

By Shalom Eilati; Translated by Vern Lenz
University of Alabama Press

Crossing the River is a personal memoir reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Clear-Cutting Eden

Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature

University of Alabama Press

Examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order

The English Churches in the Delaware Valley

By Jon Butler; Foreword by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press

This new edition and update of the seminal study, Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order, questions the assumption that colonial American churches were seedbeds of democratic sentiment merely awaiting the American Revolution to cast off the shackles of both political and religious domination.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights

The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist

University of Alabama Press

This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Essays in Jewish Thought

University of Alabama Press

Examines and explores diverse topics of Jewish thought and history

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Very Worst Road

Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847

University of Alabama Press

The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the “Old Federal Road,” more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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