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.
Conquistador in Chains
Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas
A life-changing adventure led Cabeza de Vaca to seek a different kind of conquest, one that would be just and humane, true to Spanish religion and law, but one that safeguarded liberty and justice for the Indians of the New World. His use of the skills learned from his experiences with the Indians of North America did not always help him in understanding and managing the Indians of South America, and too many of the Spanish settlers in the Rio de la Plata Province found that his policies threatened their own interests and relations with the Indians. Eventually many of those Spaniards joined a conspiracy that removed him from power and returned him to Spain in chains.
- Copyright year: 1996
Chick Lit 2
No Chick Vics
- Copyright year: 1996
The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data
- Copyright year: 1996
The Moundville Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Clarence Bloomfield Moore
The two works reprinted in this volume represent the pinnacle of the career of one of the most remarkable American archaeologists of the early 20th century, Clarence Bloomfield Moore.
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Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition
This book reconsiders realism on the American stage by addressing the great variety and richness of the plays that form the American theatre canon.
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The Quality of Mercy
Southern Baptists and Social Christianity, 1890-1920
Contrary to popular perception, turn-of-the-century Southern Baptists had an identifiable social ethic that compelled them to minister to society's dispossessed
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The Face in the Mirror
Hemingway's Writers
Fleming breaks new critical ground in charting Hemingway's
preoccupation with writers and their roles as artists.
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Looking for Clark Gable and Other 20th-Century Pursuits
Collected Writings
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Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States, 1930-1990
This book discusses words used in the Southeast and how they have changed
during the 20th century.
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Ernest Hemingway
The Oak Park Legacy
Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy is the first extensive examination of the relationship of Hemingway to his hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, and the influence its people, places, and underlying values had on his early work.
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Seeing Historic Alabama
Fifteen Guided Tours
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Defining Jamaican Fiction
Marronage and the Discourse of Survival
Defining Jamaican Fiction focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature, on its essential themes, and on the strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
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Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
The Central Mississippi Valley, defined as the region along the Mississippi River from where the Ohio River joins in the north to its confluence with the Arkansas River in the south, lies between the two most important archaeological areas of the Southeast: American Bottom/Cahokia and the Lower Yazoo Basin.
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The Divided Skies
Establishing Segregated Flight Training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942
In the Persian Gulf War, Americans of all races fought in integrated units under the leadership of the first African-American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The United States armed forces were not always the most integrated institution in American society.
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Technical Knowledge in American Culture
Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1800s
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Of Caves and Shell Mounds
Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate the vigor and complexity of prehistoric peoples in the North American Midwest and Midsouth.
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Island No. 10
Struggle for the Mississippi Valley
Confederate Major General John P. McCown was sent to plug the breach by fortifying Island No. 10, a one-mile-long island positioned in a bend in the Mississippi River that straddled the boundaries of Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky. Pope's army had to be held in check long enough for the main Confederate force, under generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, to concentrate and launch a counterattack against Grant's advancing army.
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The Fifth Season
These text are territories, dark forests, places to dwell. Sheets of language superimpose and recurrent words and images begin to fall upon one another like the bricks or sticks of an imagined palace waiting to be explored
Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore
Abundantly illustrated and written in a crisp, witty, and occasionally irreverent style, Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore will stimulate debate and rankle interpretive conventions about those social formations that archaeologists gloss as 'chiefdoms.'
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A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology
Winner of a Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, this comprehensive study provides a history of New Deal archaeology in the Southeast in the 1930s and early 1940s and focuses on the projects of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, the Works Progress Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the National Park Service, and the Smithsonian Institution.
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Aviary Slag
Stories
Art Does (Not!) Exist
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Walking on Water and Other Stories
collection of short stories by 24 of the many talented writers to have
graduated from The University of Alabama's Program in Creative Writing
over the past 20 years.
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The New Crusades, the New Holy Land
Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention, 1969-1991
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The Home on Gorham Street and the Voices of Its Children
The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care
for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of elders once
wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940s tell us in sometimes poetic,
often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really
like to grow up in an orphanage.
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Pioneer Family
Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier
Pioneer Family is based on the recollections of Hugie and Oleta Oesterreicher, who lived in rural northeast Florida in the early decades of the twentieth century. Their daughter, Michel Oesterreicher, retells their story from vivid accounts they gave of their childhood, courtship, early years of marriage, and struggles during the Great Depression.
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The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican
Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United States and Mexico from 1920 to 1935.
- Copyright year: 1995
Mississippian Communities and Households
This volume is able to move the scale of investigation down to the level of community and household, and it contributes to major revisions of settlement hierarchy concepts.
- Copyright year: 1995
The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828
The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828 is a beautifully crafted history of the evolution of the state written by Thomas Perkins Abernethy in 1922. The work shows how Alabama grew out of the Mississippi Territory and discusses the economic and political development during the years just before and just after Alabama became a state.
- Copyright year: 1995