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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Simon Baruch
Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Edited by Austin Sarat; Introduction by Austin Sarat
University of Alabama Press
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
- Copyright year: 2014
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
By Ben Railton
University of Alabama Press
Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
Beside the Troubled Waters
A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town
University of Alabama Press
A memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era
The Woman I Am
Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906–2006
University of Alabama Press
Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel
University of Alabama Press
Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief.
- Copyright year: 2014
Sacrifice and Survival
Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South
- Copyright year: 2014
Miles of Stare
Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America
University of Alabama Press
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
- Copyright year: 2014
Welcome the Hour of Conflict
William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama
By William Cowan McClellan; Edited by John C. Carter
University of Alabama Press
Vivid and lively letters from a young Confederate in Lee’s Army
- Copyright year: 2007
The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah
A Memorable Cruise
University of Alabama Press
The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe
- Copyright year: 2005
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