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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Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South

Edited by James X. Corgan
University of Alabama Press

Nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States

  • Copyright year: 1982
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The Good Men Who Won the War

Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory

University of Alabama Press

Examines how Union veterans of the Army of the Cumberland employed the extinction of slavery in the trans-Appalachian South in their memory of the Civil War
 

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In Defense of Politics in Public Administration

A Value Pluralist Perspective

University of Alabama Press

A spirited declaration of principles and a timely contribution to a dialogue that is redefining public administration, both in theory and in practice

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Reclaiming Queer

Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

University of Alabama Press

An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Rhetorical Secrets

Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America

University of Alabama Press

Gay male identity as a product of rhetoric and public discourse in modern America.

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Abductive Reasoning

University of Alabama Press

A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Voices in the Wilderness

Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

A work of composition theory, rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately provides not only new approaches to argumentation and the teaching of rhetoric, composition, and communication but also an original perspective on the current debate over public discourse.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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From Conciliation to Conquest

The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin

University of Alabama Press

In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for "outrages" committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama

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Mammals of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

Beautifully designed and sturdily bound for rugged field use, Mammals of Alabama is the first and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama’s diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women

Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783

University of Alabama Press

In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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