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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Contradiction and Conflict
The Popular Church in Nicaragua
By Debra Sabia
University of Alabama Press
Sabia examines the complex interaction of religious belief and political inspiration among internal divisions of Nicaragua's popular church.
- Copyright year: 2013
Contemporaries and Snobs
University of Alabama Press
This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash
J. Edgar Hoover and Florida's Lindbergh Case
University of Alabama Press
Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades.
- Copyright year: 2014
Artistic Liberties
American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905
University of Alabama Press
A landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism
- Copyright year: 2013
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers
- Copyright year: 2013
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories
Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable
By James Nagel
University of Alabama Press
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories posits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America.
- Copyright year: 2013
This Bright Light of Ours
Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
By Maria Gitin; Foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin
University of Alabama Press
Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965
- Copyright year: 2014
Secrecy and Insurgency
Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala
University of Alabama Press
Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents.
- Copyright year: 2014
Language Variety in the South Revisited
University of Alabama Press
Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South.
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 21
Ritual, Religion, and Theatre
Edited by Edward Bert Wallace
University of Alabama Press
Volume 21 of Theatre Symposium presents essays that explore the intricate and vital relationships between theatre, religion, and ritual.
- Copyright year: 2013
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