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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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
Bishops, Bourbons, and Big Mules
A History of the Episcopal Church in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Tells the story of how the Episcopal Church gained influence over Alabama’s cultural, political, and economic arenas despite being a denominational minority in the state
- Copyright year: 2013
Playing House in the American West
Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839-1987
University of Alabama Press
Examines an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life
- Copyright year: 2013
Southern Wonder
Alabama's Surprising Biodiversity
By R. Scot Duncan; Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
University of Alabama Press
Southern Wonder explores Alabama’s amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of their preservation.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835
A Substitute for Social Intercourse
University of Alabama Press
The remarkable journal of the young wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle and a primary source of our knowledge about early Alabama and the antebellum American South
- Copyright year: 2013
A Small but Spartan Band
The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
University of Alabama Press
A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War’s eastern theater.
- Copyright year: 2013
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