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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Heritage and Hate
Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities
University of Alabama Press
How southern universities continue to wrestle with the words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions
- Copyright year: 2021
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants
- Copyright year: 2016
Selma
A Bicentennial History
By Alston Fitts
University of Alabama Press
Selma: A Bicentennial History is a sweeping account of the history of the city of Selma from its founding to the present and is a wellspring of new information about every facet of this storied city, including a deeper understanding of the civil rights movement there and its continuing effects to this day.
Pacific Possessions
The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts
University of Alabama Press
Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing
- Copyright year: 2021
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
University of Alabama Press
Explores the practices and cultural institutions that define and sustain African American “southernness,” demonstrating that southern identity is more expansive than traditional narratives that center on white culture
- Copyright year: 2016
Decoding the Digital Church
Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump
University of Alabama Press
A nuanced look at the rhetorical narratives used by conservative Republicans and evangelicals to make both personal and political choices
- Copyright year: 2021
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Small Histories during World War II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology
University of Alabama Press
An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors
- Copyright year: 2021
Emergency Deep
Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2021
Hiding in Plain Sight
Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
University of Alabama Press
Details how African-descended women’s societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina
The Pinochet Generation
The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century
By John R. Bawden; Introduction by John R. Bawden
University of Alabama Press
Weaves together the dramatic history of Chile’s complex and fraught relationship to its armed services by thorough analysis of the experiences of General Augusto Pinochet’s generation of soldiers and the beliefs and traditions that motivated their actions
- Copyright year: 2016
Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households
University of Alabama Press
Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theory
- Copyright year: 2021
Real, Recent, or Replica
Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration
Edited by Joanna Ostapkowicz and Jonathan A. Hanna; Foreword by Peter E. Siegel; Epilogue by L. Antonio Curet
University of Alabama Press
Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials
- Copyright year: 2021
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
An expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state’s distinctive political machinery
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
By Mordecai Lee
University of Alabama Press
A masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission
- Copyright year: 2016
The Glory Road
A Gospel Gypsy Life
University of Alabama Press
Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows
- Copyright year: 2021
Life Out of Balance
Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World
By Joel B. Hagen; Foreword by Alexandra Evonne Hui
University of Alabama Press
Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century
- Copyright year: 2021
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Edited by David H. Dye
University of Alabama Press
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee is a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era.
- Copyright year: 2016
Kennesaw
Natural History of a Southern Mountain
University of Alabama Press
The first in-depth ecological treatment of one of the most frequently visited National Battlefield parks in the country
- Copyright year: 2021
Interpreting Sacred Ground
The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields
University of Alabama Press
Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance.
Here I Stand
The Life and Legacy of John Beecher
University of Alabama Press
Biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society
Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology
Formative Cultures Reconsidered
University of Alabama Press
A reconsideration of the seminal projectile point typology
- Copyright year: 2021
Reconstruction Politics in a Deep South State
Alabama, 1865–1874
University of Alabama Press
Recounts in detail the volatile political period in Alabama following the end of the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2021
Virtuous Citizens
Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how contemporary manifestations of civic publics trace directly to the early days of nationhood
- Copyright year: 2021
The Cosmos Revealed
Precontact Mississippian Rock Art at Painted Bluff, Alabama
By Jan F. Simek, Erin E. Dunsmore, Johannes Loubser, and Sierra M. Bow; Foreword by LaDonna Brown; By (photographer) Alan Cressler
University of Alabama Press
The definitive rock art book on Painted Bluff, Alabama
- Copyright year: 2021
Impact Zone
The Battle of the DMZ in Vietnam, 1967–1968
By Jim Brown
University of Alabama Press
A Vietnam War combat memoir from the perspective of an artilleryman
Horses Dream of Money
Stories
By Angela Buck
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2021
Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic
Edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit
University of Alabama Press
New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic
- Copyright year: 2017
After the Whale
Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick
By Clark Davis
University of Alabama Press
Contextualizes Herman Melville’s short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s era
A Road Course in Early American Literature
Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst
University of Alabama Press
Essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity
- Copyright year: 2021
The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar
University of Alabama Press
These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals
- Copyright year: 2021
Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean
History and Archaeology
Edited by Ashley A. Dumas and Paul N. Eubanks
University of Alabama Press
Case studies examining the archaeological record of an overlooked mineral
- Copyright year: 2021
The Story of Food in the Human Past
How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are
University of Alabama Press
A sweeping overview of how and what humans have eaten in their long history as a species
- Copyright year: 2021
The Power of Their Will
Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
University of Alabama Press
A valuable narrative of the often paradoxical and conflicting human bonds between female owners and the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba
- Copyright year: 2021
Revolution as Reformation
Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832
Edited by Peter C. Messer and William Harrison Taylor
University of Alabama Press
Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age
- Copyright year: 2021
Korean Showdown
National Policy and Military Strategy in a Limited War, 1951–1952
University of Alabama Press
A historical analysis of the policies and military strategies applied during the Korean War stalemate period
- Copyright year: 2021
Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite
By José Galindo
University of Alabama Press
A groundbreaking historical narrative of corruption and economic success in Mexico
- Copyright year: 2021
Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
- Copyright year: 2020
The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology by B. M. W. Schrapnel, Ph.D.
University of Alabama Press
This potpourri of satire on language use in Western culture will trigger chuckles and guffaws from an eclectic readership
- Copyright year: 1997
Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited
University of Alabama Press
Hill’s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded – and compellingly relevant
Dixie's Great War
World War I and the American South
University of Alabama Press
Examining the First World War through the lens of the American South
- Copyright year: 2021
Antisubmarine Warrior in the Pacific
Six Subs Sunk in Twelve Days
University of Alabama Press
A first-hand account of the USS England's accomplishments, written by its commanding officer
Historic Watermills of North America
A Visual Preservation
University of Alabama Press
112 full-color artistic photographs of watermills still standing on the North American landscape
- Copyright year: 2021
Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century
Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing
Edited by Robin Behn; Introduction by Robin Behn
University of Alabama Press
Fun and innovative exercises and prompts for creative writing students
- Copyright year: 2020
Mastering the Law
Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire
University of Alabama Press
Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America
- Copyright year: 2020
Through the Window, Out the Door
Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion
University of Alabama Press
This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists.
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 28
Theatre and Citizenship
Edited by Andrew Gibb
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays whose authors reach beyond simple definitions of citizenship as determined by documents and legal rights
- Copyright year: 2020
The Conscience of a Lawyer
Clifford J. Durr and American Civil Liberties, 1899–1975
University of Alabama Press
An Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and other accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras
The Sephardim in the Holocaust
A Forgotten People
University of Alabama Press
Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes
- Copyright year: 2020
The New Woman in Alabama
Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890–1920
University of Alabama Press
Between 1890 and 1920, middle-class white and black Alabama women created many clubs and organizations that took them out of the home and provided them with roles in the public sphere and spearheaded the drive to eliminate child labor, worked to improve the educational system, upgraded the jails and prisons, and created reform schools for both boys and girls. Thomas’s book is the first of its kind to focus on the reform activities of women during the Progressive Era, and the first to consider the southern woman and all the organizations of middle-class black and white women in the South and particularly in Alabama
- Copyright year: 1992
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