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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The Victory Album
Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War
University of Alabama Press
Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815
Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans
By Tom Kanon
University of Alabama Press
Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815 by Tom Kanon tells the often forgotten story of the central role citizens and soldiers from Tennessee played in the Creek War in Alabama and War of 1812.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hunt the Devil
A Demonology of US War Culture
By Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner
University of Alabama Press
Hunt the Devil explains the origins and processes of the repetitive American reflex to demonize and then wage war against perceived opponents as well as ways to break the cycle.
- Copyright year: 2015
For Decades I Was Silent
A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating memoir about a Holocaust survivor's loss of and journey back to faith.
- Copyright year: 2008
Colonizing Paradise
Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
University of Alabama Press
Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean
- Copyright year: 2015
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Preface by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Introduction by C. S. Giscombe
University of Alabama Press
What I Say is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Edited by Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
University of Alabama Press
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World is a collection of original essays that offer insights into how the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 shaped and influenced the political culture of Iberian America.
- Copyright year: 2015
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
University of Alabama Press
Inside the Teaching Machine argues that the U.S. public research university has always been a vital component of the capitalist political economy. Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments often ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy.
- Copyright year: 2008
If It Takes All Summer
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
By Dan R. Warren; Foreword by Morris Dees
University of Alabama Press
An insider’s record of the St. Augustine Civil Rights drama.
- Copyright year: 2008
Edith Wharton in Context
Essays on Intertextuality
University of Alabama Press
These new and classic essays, researched and written over a 25-year period, are driven and enriched by the enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion of a scholar still making discoveries about a subject of lifelong fascination. Essays at the center of the collection explore Wharton’s textual relationships with authors whom she knew well—especially Henry James but also Paul Bourget, F. Marion Crawford, and Vivienne de Watteville.
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