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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Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
Edited by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
University of Alabama Press
The 2015 volume of Theatre History Studies presents a collection of five critical essays examining the intersection of theatre studies and historiography as well as twenty-five book reviews highlighting recent scholarship in this thriving field.
- Copyright year: 2015
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2015
Fabricating the People
Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State
University of Alabama Press
Fabricating the People boldly proposes post-representational governance that reframes the practice of modern democracy and reinvents the role of public administration.
- Copyright year: 2012
Experience
Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
University of Alabama Press
Norman Fischer’s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Story They Told Us of Light
Poems
By Rodney Jones
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1980
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
University of Alabama Press
Offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis
- Copyright year: 2015
Modern Organization
By Victor A. Thompson; Introduction by Victor A. Thompson
University of Alabama Press
In Modern Organization, Victor A. Thompson tackles arbitrary power structures and their hold over more specialized but less appreciated workers. The book is ultimately interested in righting dynamics between power and knowledge in the modern working world.
- Copyright year: 1961
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010
University of Alabama Press
Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006–2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation’s violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system
- Copyright year: 2015
St. Elmo
Or, Saved at Last
By Augusta Jane Evans; Introduction by Diane Roberts
University of Alabama Press
The top-selling novel by prolific Southern writer Augusta J. Evans, St. Elmo was more widely read in its day than Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel traces the relationship between a charming and charismatic lothario, St. Elmo, and the beautiful and chaste Edna Earl.
- Copyright year: 1992
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry
Edited by John P. Hermann and John J. Burke Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.
- Copyright year: 1981
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