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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America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945
By Stephen L. McFarland; Introduction by Richard P. Hallion
University of Alabama Press
A meticulously researched and lively account of the secret development of the renowned Norden bombsight and its relationship to American strategic bombing doctrine and practice.
- Copyright year: 2008
Pre-Columbian Jamaica
University of Alabama Press
Pre-Columbian Jamaica represents the first substantial attempt to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island in a single published account since J. E. Duerden’s invaluable 1897 article on the subject, which is also reprinted within this volume.
- Copyright year: 2008
Song of Tides
By Tom Joseph
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
The Calusa's historic repulsion of 16th-century Spanish occupiers
- Copyright year: 2008
The Old Beloved Path
Daily Life amond the Indians of the Chattahooche River Valley
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
The Old Beloved Path provides an engaging and authoritative introduction to the lives of native Americans in the Chattahoochee river region.
- Copyright year: 2008
Area and Administration
By James W. Fesler; Introduction by Donald F. Kettl
University of Alabama Press
An updated classic of public administration
- Copyright year: 2008
Looking for Lost Lore
Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography
University of Alabama Press
Folklore as a serious adjunct to history, anthropology, and religious studies
- Copyright year: 2008
In the Path of the Storms
Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast
University of Alabama Press, Pebble Hill Books
In the Path of the Storms is touching and heroic portrait of two Alabama Gulf Coast communities.
- Copyright year: 2008
Battle
The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat
Edited by Kent Gramm
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays that reveals the reality of war behind the pageantry of the American Civil War
- Copyright year: 2008
Archaeology and Geoinformatics
Case Studies from the Caribbean
Edited by Basil A. Reid
University of Alabama Press
Provides tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers
- Copyright year: 2008
Full Fathom Five
A Daughter's Search
University of Alabama Press
One woman’s quest for knowledge of her father lost at sea
- Copyright year: 2008
It's a New Day
Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
University of Alabama Press
Examines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society
- Copyright year: 2008
America's Battalion
Marines in the First Gulf War
University of Alabama Press
Tells the experiences of one unit, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, during Operation Desert Storm
- Copyright year: 2008
Unfurl Those Colors!
McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign
University of Alabama Press
Traces the engrossing story of the Union Army’s strategies, stratagems, and movements on the bloodiest day in American military history
- Copyright year: 2008
Crossing the Borders
New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques
- Copyright year: 2008
Yucatan in an Era of Globalization
University of Alabama Press
This work describes the profound changes to Yucatán’s society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexico’s economy.
- Copyright year: 2008
To the Boathouse
A Memoir
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
To the Boathouse is the memoir of a southern girl and her maturing sense of self as she grows to become one of the most prolific and accomplished writers and critics of our day. Mary Ann Caws recounts the tangled relationships of her family, and her own ties to her sister, parents, and the grandmother—a painter—who served as her role model for a life of passionate engagement.
- Copyright year: 2008
Creating Community
Life and Learning at Alabama State University
University of Alabama Press
Creating Community explores how faculty members at Alabama State University, a historically black university in Montgomery, have been inspired by the legacy of African American culture and the civil rights movement and how they seek to interpret and extend that legacy through teaching, scholarship, and service.
- Copyright year: 2008
The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville
University of Alabama Press
Defines household composition and social relationships at Moundville
Jubal Early's Raid on Washington
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
- Copyright year: 2008
The Trouble with Being Born
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A fierce portrait of memory, family, and regret
The Trouble with Being Born is a stark meditation on memory and the struggle–both necessary and impossible–to remember.
- Copyright year: 2008
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