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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G Company's War

Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945

University of Alabama Press

A unique account of combat in World War II provides parallel day-to-day records of the same events as seen by two men in the same company, one an enlisted man, one an officer
 

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Lower Mississippi Valley Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

University of Alabama Press

Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852-1917) is chiefly remembered for the twenty-five years he spent investigating and documenting archaeological sites along every navigable waterway in the southeastern United States. This volume includes works that describe data from Moore's expeditions that were key to the early recognition and preservation of major archaeological sites —Toltec, Parkin, Mound City, and Wicklife, among them—in the Lower Mississippi Valley, all collected together in a one-volume facsimile edition.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Mothers, Sisters, Resisters

Oral Histories of Women Who Survived the Holocaust

University of Alabama Press

Provides an important historical record of women’s experiences during the Holocaust

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces

Searching for an Architectural Grammar

University of Alabama Press

In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippian towns and mound centers of the eastern United States.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge

University of Alabama Press

Provides a provocative and advanced introduction to the thought and writing of Louis Zukofsky, aptly described as one of the “first postmodernists”

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A World Engraved

Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture

University of Alabama Press


This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Georgia and South Carolina Coastal Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

University of Alabama Press

This compilation of Clarence Bloomfield Moore's investigations along the rich coastal and river drainages of Georgia and South Carolina makes
available in a single volume valuable works published a century ago. In some cases his publications are the only documentation extant for sites that have since been destroyed.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924

University of Alabama Press

This ground-breaking study reveals the magnitude and impact of African American leadership in Florida during the post-Civil War era.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Aztec Love God

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A dark comedy about Tiofilio Duarte's climb to obscurity
 

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Confederados

Old South Immigrants in Brazil

University of Alabama Press

This collection of essays--which also includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settler-- examines the fascinating experiences of southern Confederate exiles in Brazil and their continuing legacy.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Hardaway Revisited

Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast

University of Alabama Press

A provocative reanalysis of one of the most famous Early Archaic archaeological sites in the southeastern United States

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Making of Sacagawea

A Euro-American Legend

University of Alabama Press

Kessler supplies both the biography of a legend and an explanation of why that legend has endured.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley

University of Alabama Press

Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Ecoviews

Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales

University of Alabama Press

This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and their habitats and promotes awareness of pressing environmental issues. The eight informative chapters deliver effective environmental messages and supply compelling insight into the natural world and the ecologists who investigate its many mysteries.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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McIntosh and Weatherford

Creek Indian Leaders

University of Alabama Press

Explores the personal meaning of US Indian removal policy

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore

University of Alabama Press

The first scholarly collection of ghostlore from throughout the state of Alabama

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Lift Every Voice

African American Oratory, 1787-1901

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1997
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Many Voices, Many Rooms

A New Anthology of Alabama Writers

University of Alabama Press
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Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power

University of Alabama Press

Examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious symbolism

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Seductions of Emily Dickinson

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1997
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Take It or Leave It

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Moving freely from past to present and place to place leap-frogging from digression to digression, Take It or Leave It recounts the hilarious and amourous adventures of Frenchy, a young man who survives the German occupation of France and moves to America where he travels crosscountry en route to Korea as a member of the 82nd Airbourne Division. The ultimate postmodern novel, Take It or Leave makes a shambles of traditional fiction and storytelling and does so with effrontery and laughter.

  • Copyright year: 1976
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The Confederate Navy in Europe

University of Alabama Press

Originally published in 1984, The Confederate Navy in Europe is the first full account of the European activities of the Confederate navy during the American Civil War, including information on the Southerners who procured naval vessels in Great Britain and France, the construction of the ships, and the legal and political impact on the European governments that assisted in the Confederate cause.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Selma, Lord, Selma

Girlhood Memories of the Civil Rights Days

University of Alabama Press

This moving firsthand account puts the 1965 struggle for Civil Rights in Selma, Alabama, in very human terms.


  • Copyright year: 1997
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The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

By Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli; Introduction by Mary Gordon
University of Alabama Press

The definitive collection of Jazz Age icon Zelda Fitzgerald's work

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Sparrow and the Hawk

Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of Jose Figueres

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1997
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People, Plants, and Landscapes

Studies in Paleoethnobotany

University of Alabama Press

People, Plants, and Landscapes showcases the potential of modern paleoethnobotany, an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological evidence.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Mythical Trickster Figures

Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms

University of Alabama Press

The first substantial collection of essays about the trickster since 1955

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Mimetic Disillusion

Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism

University of Alabama Press

Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama, showing that at mid-century it turned in the direction of a poststructuralist "disillusionment with mimesis" or mimicry.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Dreams of Development

Colombia's National School of Mines and Its Engineers, 1887-1970

University of Alabama Press

Murray's analysis of a single institution makes this book valuable both to Colombianists and to other scholars interested in the development of modern Latin American higher education. It also provides unique insight into the positivistic ideals and values that have shaped Colombian and other Latin American elites and dictated the destiny of their countries.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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The Viola

Complete Guide for Teachers and Students

University of Alabama Press

The second edition is extensively expanded in its graded lists of studies and solos

  • Copyright year: 1996
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