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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Second Front Now--1943

An Opportunity Delayed

University of Alabama Press

Addresses head-on the central issue of invasion timing in the Allied European strategy of World War II

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Christian Reconstruction

The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890

University of Alabama Press

Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Great War in the Air

Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921

University of Alabama Press

"A comprehensive study of the totality of the air war in its military, political, industrial, and cultural aspects distinguish this book from other treatments of military aviation during this period. . . . Morrow's efforts have yielded new insights into the evolution of military aviation and corrected previous oversights. The author's attention to developments in production and logistics, as well as events at the front, provide the most complete understanding of the development of air power and its role in the Great War."--American Historical Review

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Public Indians, Private Cherokees

Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground

University of Alabama Press

Explores the major economic industry among American Indian tribes—public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues

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Heritage or Heresy

Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera

University of Alabama Press

Through analysis of seven archaeological sites on the Yucatan peninsula that are open to heritage touring, Walker reveals the planned growth of the Maya Riviera since the early 1970s and examines the impact of international tourism on both ancient structures and the contemporary Maya people and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Speaking with the Ancestors

Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region

University of Alabama Press

During the last twenty years the authors have researched over 88 possible examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago, and discovered along the river valleys of the interior Southeast. Independently and in conjunction, they have measured, analyzed, photographed, and traced the known history of the 42 that appear in this volume.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Digital Poetics

Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media

University of Alabama Press

Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry
 

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land

Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism

Edited by Edith L. Blumhofer and Mark A. Noll; Introduction by Stephen Marini
University of Alabama Press

The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Making Pictures in Stone

American Indian Rock Art of the Northeast

University of Alabama Press

A full range of rock art appearances, including dendroglyphs, pictographs, and a selection of portable rock objects

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain on the Move

A Travel Reader

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Poetics & Polemics

1980-2005

By Jerome Rothenberg; Edited by Steven Clay; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press

Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American and international poetry today.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Inconstant Companions

Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions

University of Alabama Press

One of the most significant theoretical issues in contemporary American archaeology—the role of oral tradition in scientific research.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Assault on Progress

Technology and Time in American Literature

University of Alabama Press

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for Best Manuscript in American Literature

  • Copyright year: 2008
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King Cotton Diplomacy

Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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First Freedom

The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction

University of Alabama Press

Classic study of the history of post-slave societies

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Talking Taino

Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Transformation of the Christian Right in the 1980s

University of Alabama Press

The Transformation of the Christian Right chronicles and analyzes the remarkable changes that have occurred in the Christian Right from its emergence in the late 1970s to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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There's Hope for the World

The Memoir of Birmingham, Alabama's First African American Mayor

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Great War in the Heart of Dixie

Alabama During World War I

University of Alabama Press

There has been much scholarship on how the U.S. as a nation reacted to World War I, but few have explored how Alabama responded. Did the state follow the federal government’s lead in organizing its resources or did Alabamians devise their own solutions to unique problems they faced?

  • Copyright year: 2008
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