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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Fitter, Happier
The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century
Dear Incomprehension
On American Speculative Fiction
University of Alabama Press
A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction
Unsettling Brazil
Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities’ responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte
Theatre History Studies 2023, Vol. 42
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press
The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference
- Copyright year: 2024
Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation
University of Alabama Press
An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century
Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 1
Prehistory through the Middle Woodland Period
University of Alabama Press
The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia
- Copyright year: 2024
Tannery Bay
A Novel
By Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A volume which explores Black Joy, Queer Joy, and the ways in which family is both biological and chosen
- Copyright year: 2024
American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three
Edited by Michael J. Altman, Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman; Preface by Michael J. Altman; Introduction by Erik Kline, Dana Lloyd, and Cody Musselman
University of Alabama Press
Fresh perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from #RadTrad to the “FeeJee Mermaid”
- Copyright year: 2024
Odyssey of a Wandering Mind
The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author
University of Alabama Press
A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own
- Copyright year: 2024
The Houseboat Veronica
A Novel
By Josh Bell
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A mythopoetic journey to the edge of the world and to the edges of reason, horror, and beauty with a witch and her young ward.
Blessed Are the Activists
Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala
University of Alabama Press
Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s
- Copyright year: 2024
Tattered Kimonos in Japan
Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II
By Robert Rand
University of Alabama Press
Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict
- Copyright year: 2024
Uncanny Fidelity
Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television
By James Newlin
University of Alabama Press
How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean
- Copyright year: 2024
Time in the Barrel
A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien
University of Alabama Press
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War
- Copyright year: 2019
Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island
Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery
University of Alabama Press
Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories
- Copyright year: 2024
Aggression and Sufferings
Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South
University of Alabama Press
A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity
- Copyright year: 2024
The Case for Single Motherhood
Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations
University of Alabama Press
Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations
- Copyright year: 2024
Gringos Get Rich
Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music
By Eunice Rojas
University of Alabama Press
Documents counter-imperialism in Chilean music since the 1960s
- Copyright year: 2024
The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination
University of Alabama Press
How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts
- Copyright year: 2024
Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context
Reformer and Social Critic, 1869–1910
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrations
- Copyright year: 2024
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