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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Benjamin Lloyd's Hymn Book

University of Alabama Press

Primitive Baptist singing traditions in the South

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Clays of Alabama

A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family

University of Alabama Press

The story of a 19th-century aristocratic Alabama family

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Ancient Borinquen

Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico

Edited by Peter E. Siegel
University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive overview of recent thinking, new data, syntheses, and insights into current Puerto Rican archaeology
 

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Picture Taker

Photographs by Ken Elkins

By Ken Elkins; Foreword by Rick Bragg
University of Alabama Press

This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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John Dooley, Confederate Soldier

His War Journal

University of Alabama Press
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Our Sisters' Keepers

Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women

University of Alabama Press

Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief

  • Copyright year: 2005
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President Johnson's War On Poverty

Rhetoric and History

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy

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Dissonance (if you are interested)

University of Alabama Press

Dissonance (if you are interested) consists of Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic.

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Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology

University of Alabama Press

Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology provides a politically and historically informed review of Cuban archaeology, from both American and Cuban perspectives.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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To the Far Side of Hell

The Battle for Peleliu, 1944

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

 poignant account and analysis of the bloody battle in the Pacific.

To the Far Side of Hell
is the story of the World War II battle for the Pacific island of Peleliu in the autumn of 1944.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Juan Pardo Expeditions

Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568

University of Alabama Press

An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Public Administration and the State

A Postmodern Perspective

University of Alabama Press

A critical examination of public administration's pervasive vision of a powerful state

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Confederate Navy Chief

Stephen R. Mallory

University of Alabama Press

The book tells of Stephen R. Mallory's support of naval inventions, strategy, and ideas. It also sheds light on the the successes and failures of Jefferson Davis. Durkin gives a well-balanced biography of Mallory and his life in the Confederate navy.

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Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff, Stephen S. Renfroe

University of Alabama Press

A vignette of local Southern history

  • Copyright year: 2005
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This Is Called Moving

A Critical Poetics of Film

By Abigail Child; Foreword by Tom Gunning
University of Alabama Press

Explores how two language systems inform and cross-fertilize the author’s work
 

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Solfege, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation, and Music Theory

A Comprehensive Course

University of Alabama Press

One of the most highly acclaimed resources for the study of ear training in music education today

  • Copyright year: 1993
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San Jacinto 1

A Historical Ecological Approach to an Archaic Site in Colombia

University of Alabama Press

A significant work of neotropical archaeology presenting evidence of early hunter-gatherers who produced fiber-tempered ceramics.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Rhetorical Women

Roles and Representations

University of Alabama Press

A collection representing a surprisingly varied range of roles or personas women have adopted to be able to speak or write publicly

  • Copyright year: 2005
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