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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Mammals of Alabama
By Troy L. Best and Julian L. Dusi
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
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
The English Physician
By Nicholas Culpeper; Edited by Michael A. Flannery; Introduction by Michael A. Flannery; Footnotes by Michael A. Flannery
University of Alabama Press
The first medical book published in the American colonies
- Copyright year: 2007
Patterson for Alabama
The Life and Career of John Patterson
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2013
Mule South to Tractor South
Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South
University of Alabama Press
The adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor
- Copyright year: 2013
Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
University of Alabama Press
A fresh perspective on the interaction of religious ideals and social change in rural settlements of the Moravian colony of Wachovia.
- Copyright year: 2013
Debt, Investment, Slaves
Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885
By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne; Foreword by Gavin Wright
University of Alabama Press
Richard Kilbourne has produced a comprehensive study of the credit system in one Louisiana parish in the antebellum and postbellum periods of the Civil War. East Feliciana Parish was important in terms of both population and the large number of slaves. This book’s primary concern is the role of slave property in collateralizing credit relationships and planter perceptions regarding slaves as financial assets.
- Copyright year: 2013
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry within Alabama from colonial times to the present within the broader contexts of southern and American agricultural history
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
University of Alabama Press
Examines the qualitative nature of capitalism’s processes through the lens of social networks
- Copyright year: 2013
A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida
By Bernard Romans; Edited by Kathryn H. Braund
University of Alabama Press
Braund presents the only annotated edition of Bernard Romans's rare and valuable 18th-century account of his observations in the southeastern United States.
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