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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Playing House in the American West
Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839–1987
University of Alabama Press
Examines an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life
- Copyright year: 2013
This Incurable Evil
Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687
University of Alabama Press
Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families
- Copyright year: 2023
Sowing the Forest
A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes
University of Alabama Press
Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests
- Copyright year: 2023
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
- Copyright year: 2023
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport’s Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
University of Alabama Press
A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoric
- Copyright year: 2023
Learning from Birmingham
A Journey into History and Home
University of Alabama Press
A steel town daughter’s search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama
- Copyright year: 2023
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30
Theatre and Politics
Edited by Chase Bringardner
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates how theatre’s engagement with politics changes over time
- Copyright year: 2023
Unguessed Kinships
Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
By Steven Frye
University of Alabama Press
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelists
- Copyright year: 2023
I Am Fighting for the Union
The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells
By Henry Willis Wells; Edited by Robert M. Browning Jr.
University of Alabama Press
An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy
- Copyright year: 2023
From Mammies to Militants
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
University of Alabama Press
Focuses on the issue of stereotypes of Black women
- Copyright year: 2023
Thicker Than Water
Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama
University of Alabama Press
Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe
- Copyright year: 2023
Ecosublime
Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
By Lee Rozelle
University of Alabama Press
Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America
- Copyright year: 2006
A Long Essay on the Long Poem
Modern and Contemporary Poetics and Practices
University of Alabama Press
A masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms—the long poem
- Copyright year: 2023
Clotilda
The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship
By James P. Delgado, Deborah E. Marx, Kyle Lent, Joseph Grinnan, and Alexander DeCaro; Foreword by Lisa D. Jones and Stacye Hathorn
University of Alabama Press
Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda
- Copyright year: 2023
Pulpits of the Lost Cause
The Faith and Politics of Former Confederate Chaplains during Reconstruction
University of Alabama Press
Compares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period
- Copyright year: 2023
Atomic Environments
Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age
- Copyright year: 2023
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A Novel after David Bowie
By Lance Olsen
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days
- Copyright year: 2023
Theatre History Studies 2022, Vol 41
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press
The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference
- Copyright year: 2023
Staging America
The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive history of the Provincetown Players arguing for its role as the birthplace of modern American theatre
- Copyright year: 2023
The Failure of Our Fathers
Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama
University of Alabama Press
An in-depth study of non-elite white families in Alabama—from the state’s creation through the end of the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2023
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