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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Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Edited by Brigitta R. Brunner; Introduction by Brigitta R. Brunner
University of Alabama Press
Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities. They demonstrate the surprising and robust ways such programs bolster and enhance the mission of land-grant institutions.
- Copyright year: 2016
Canons by Consensus
Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies
By Joseph Csicsila; Foreword by Tom Quirk
University of Alabama Press
The first systematic analysis of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last century
Archaeopoetics
Word, Image, History
University of Alabama Press
Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge
- Copyright year: 2016
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America
An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court
University of Alabama Press
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America is the definitive biography of a Virginia legislator and jurist whose life and career mirror the transformational decades of US history between the War of 1812 and the end of the Mexican American War in 1848.
- Copyright year: 2016
Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam
The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America's Bloodiest Day
University of Alabama Press
Offers a definitive guide to the Confederate army’s primary engagements at the epic Battle of Antietam
- Copyright year: 2016
Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
By Candice Rai
University of Alabama Press
Traces the communication strategies of various constituencies in a Chicago neighborhood, offering insights into the challenges that beset diverse urban populations and demonstrating persuasively rhetoric’s power to illuminate and resolve charged conflicts
- Copyright year: 2016
The Village on the Plain
Auburn University, 1856–2006
By Dwayne Cox
University of Alabama Press
The Village on the Plain: Auburn University, 1856–2006 tells the story of the founding of Auburn University as a small private college and the tumultuous history of its growth and transformation into the complex institution it is today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Natural Wonders
A Novel
By Angela Woodward; Foreword by Stacey Levine
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Natural Wonders is a novel in the form of a series of lectures about the earth and its prehistory. In it, a grieving widow assembles an idiosyncratic history of the earth’s history based on her understanding and impressions of her deceased husband’s papers.
- Copyright year: 2016
Intimacy
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Intimacy is the story of an unnamed narrator ruminating on suicide. He reflects on the origins and significance of his material possessions, and on the seemingly inconsequential moments in his life, while he prepares to carry out his plans.
- Copyright year: 2016
Hex
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The debut novel by Sarah Blackman (award-winning author of Mother Box and Other Tales) Hex explores the ways one woman uses language and stories to rebuild her own shattered sense of self.
- Copyright year: 2016
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