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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An Agenda for Antiquity

Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1935

University of Alabama Press

How and why vertebrate paleontology flourished at New York’s American Museum of Natural History in the early 20th century

  • Copyright year: 1991
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The Wavering Knife

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Crossing the Deadly Ground

United States Army Tactics, 1865–1899

University of Alabama Press

Attempts to answer difficult questions about battle tactics employed by the United States Army
 

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The Eagle's Nest

Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842

University of Alabama Press

Contains a useful panoramic account of the fresh perspectives that early American practitioners brought to the natural sciences

  • Copyright year: 1986
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James Barbour, a Jeffersonian Repulican

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1984
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Florida Territory in 1844

The Diary of Master Edward Clifford Anderson, USN

University of Alabama Press

Edward Anderson's diary covers his service in Florida Territory from March 16 to December 31, 1844 during the Navy mission in Florida to protect live oak and pine forests on government land from poachers. 

  • Copyright year: 1977
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Everyday Psychokillers

A History for Girls, A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Interweaving history, myth, rumor, and news, this first novel explores what it means to grow up as a girl in a culture of girl-killers

  • Copyright year: 2004
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The Southern Frontier 1670-1732

By Verner Crane; Introduction by Steven C. Hahn
University of Alabama Press

A classic resource on the struggle for dominance in southern North America during the colonial period

 

  • Copyright year: 2004
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A History of the Osage People

University of Alabama Press

Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.

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The Mound-Builders

University of Alabama Press

A classic resource on early knowledge of prehistoric mounds and the peoples who constructed them in the eastern United States

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Secessionist Impulse

Alabama and Mississippi in 1860

University of Alabama Press

The classic study of the cultural and economic politics that allowed "fire-eaters" to triumph over Unionists in the Deep South

  • Copyright year: 2003
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Inside Alabama

A Personal History of My State

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie"
 

  • Copyright year: 2003
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The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole

Postmodernist Long Poems

University of Alabama Press

A smart, eclectic analysis of nine long poems written by postmodernist poets
 

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The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

University of Alabama Press

The ninth and final volume in the C.B. Moore reprint series that covers archaeological discoveries along North American Waterways.

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Catawba Indian Pottery

The Survival of a Folk Tradition

University of Alabama Press

Traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Florida Place-Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A compendium of Indian-derived names from the three languages of the Muskhogean family—Seminole, Hitchiti, and Choctaw

  • Copyright year: 2003
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Splendid Land, Splendid People

The Chickasaw Indians to Removal

University of Alabama Press

A thorough examination of the Chickasaw Indians, tracing their history as far back as the documentation and archeological record will allow
 

  • Copyright year: 2003
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The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux

Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France

University of Alabama Press

Sephardim of Bordeaux—the first in Europe to be recognized as a Jewish community

  • Copyright year: 1978
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U.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office

A 19th-Century Rivalry in Science and Politics

University of Alabama Press

Examines a crucial phase of the relations of science and politics in the post-Civil War period
 

  • Copyright year: 1988
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Nahum Goldman

His Missions to the Gentile

University of Alabama Press

The first exploration of Nahum Goldmann and his extraordinary life

  • Copyright year: 1980
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