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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Immersive Words
Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893
University of Alabama Press
Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America’s evolving national identity.
- Copyright year: 2015
Wings of Gold
An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II, The Correspondence of Aviation Cadet/Ensign Robert R. Rea
Edited by Wesley Phillips Newton and Robert R. Rea
University of Alabama Press
Wings of Gold presents the personal account of the experiences and reactions of an individual cadet preparing for war in the naval aviation training program at its peak during World War II.
- Copyright year: 1987
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
University of Alabama Press
Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of the complex and violent history of Mexico’s easternmost Gulf Coast region that expands and revises perceptions of liberal as well as Second Empire politics from 1855 to 1876.
- Copyright year: 2015
Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction
University of Alabama Press
A highly innovative study in which James B. Stoltman uses petrography to reveal previously undetectable evidence of cultural interaction among Hopewell societies of the Ohio Valley region and the contemporary peoples of the Southeast
- Copyright year: 2015
Seed
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
In an age of contested values, Stanley Crawford’s wry Seed offers a sardonic exploration of the meaning of “values.” Curmudgeon Bill Starr’s end-of-life decisions illuminate the values that rule his life and his heirs’, as well as the material objects he and they perceive as having value.
- Copyright year: 2015
O'Hearn
By Greg Mulcahy
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
O’Hearn is the second novel by highly praised writer Greg Mulcahy, author of Out of Work, Constellation, and Carbine. Timely and mordantly sardonic, O’Hearn tells the story of the disintegration of a man’s life refracted through the prism of his office life.
- Copyright year: 2015
Hospice
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Hospice is the debut novel of Gregory Howard. In it, he follows Lucy, a young woman whose series of jobs opens windows into the strange lives of others and in so doing brings her back to her own secrets.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Archaeology of Events
Cultural Change and Continuity in the Pre-Columbian Southeast
Edited by Zackary I. Gilmore and Jason M. O'Donoughue
University of Alabama Press
The first work to apply an events-based approach to the analysis of pivotal developments in the pre-Columbian Southeast
- Copyright year: 2015
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Edited by Julie Carr and Jeffrey C. Robinson
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry
- Copyright year: 2015
Collards
A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table
By Edward H. Davis and John T. Morgan
University of Alabama Press
The definitive survey of collards, an iconic southern food
- Copyright year: 2015
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