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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Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America

An Interpretive Guide

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom

University of Alabama Press

Alabama’s great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama’s preserved civil rights sites and monuments

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Transforming the Dead

Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest

University of Alabama Press

The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968

University of Alabama Press

A major figure in southern black restorationist church history

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Searching for Freedom after the Civil War

Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman

University of Alabama Press

Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Raphael Semmes

The Philosophical Mariner

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1997
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Between the Eagle and the Sun

Traces of Japan

University of Alabama Press
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Rhetorical Exposures

Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography

University of Alabama Press

In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present in order to illuminate the political dimensions and consequences of photographs taken and selected to highlight social injustice.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Loving God's Wildness

The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature

University of Alabama Press

Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Lincoln's Trident

The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War

University of Alabama Press

Lincoln’s Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron’s quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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