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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Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza
By Ángel Escobar; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The best-known work by acclaimed Cuban poet Ángel Escobar
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
By Brett Ommen
University of Alabama Press
The Politics of the Superficial argues that the increasing volume of visually communicative surfaces in public life contributes to a very particular form of public imagination and political activity.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
By Ronald Berman; Introduction by Ronald Berman
University of Alabama Press
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz."
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders
University of Alabama Press
Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
- Copyright year: 2010
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work
- Copyright year: 2016
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
University of Alabama Press
How Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
By Alexander Z. Gurwitz; Edited by Bryan Edward Stone; Translated by Amram Prero; Introduction by Bryan Edward Stone; Preface by Alexander Z. Gurwitz
University of Alabama Press
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
- Copyright year: 2016
A Universal Theory of Pottery Production
Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography
University of Alabama Press
By an analysis of ceramic production, appendage, and decorative techniques at the Paso del Indio archaeological site in Puerto Rico, Richard A. Krause’s A Universal Theory of Pottery Production offers new insight into a classic theory of pottery manufacture by production steps and stages.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets—long a fixture of Western poetic tradition—is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more “real” entities of physical sex and desire.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fanning the Spark
A Memoir
University of Alabama Press
Fanning the Spark is the story of Mary Ward Brown's life as a writer—her upbringing in rural Alabama; the joys of college, marriage, and motherhood; the sorrows of becoming a widow; and a lifelong devotion to writing, writers, and literature, and the company of those who shared those loves, nurturing and feeding her interior life in the face of many challenges, losses, and obstacles, both emotional and material.
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