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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Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900–1975
University of Alabama Press
This well-written volume explores the relationships between politics and welfare programs for low-income residents in Birmingham during four periods in the 20th century.
- Copyright year: 1995
Intricate Thicket
Reading Late Modernist Poetries
University of Alabama Press
Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries offers a collection of nineteen essays that deftly erodes the simplistic distinction between modernism and postmodernism, showing that many attributes of postmodernist verse form not a break with, but rather a continuation of, modernist poetry.
- Copyright year: 2015
Avenues of Faith
Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929
University of Alabama Press
The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century
Captain Billy's Troopers
A Writer's Life
By William Cobb
University of Alabama Press
Opens a candid window into the life of a writer and teacher who overcame years of addiction and serious health problems as his voice, artistic vision, and sense of self evolved and matured
- Copyright year: 2015
The Great Melding
War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism
University of Alabama Press
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2015
Visions of the Black Belt
A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.
- Copyright year: 2015
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists.
- Copyright year: 2015
Among the Garifuna
Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast
University of Alabama Press
An intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twentieth-century Caribbean
- Copyright year: 2015
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Edited by Steven W. Ramey; Foreword by Theodore Louis Trost and Steven Leonard Jacobs; Introduction by Steven W. Ramey; Afterword by Russell T. McCutcheon
University of Alabama Press
Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is a collection of outstanding essays on wide-ranging aspects of religious studies by well-known scholars, delivered as part of the University of Alabama’s annual Aronov Lectures.
- Copyright year: 2015
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Edited by Andrea Stone
University of Alabama Press
Of interest to professionals as well as generalists, this collection will stand as a marker of the state of Mayan studies at the turn of the 21st century and as a tribute to the remarkable personality, Linda Schele, who guided a large part of that archaeological research for more than two decades.
- Copyright year: 2002
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