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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We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple
Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism
University of Alabama Press
By focusing on Roosevelt’s rhetorical constructions of national identity, as opposed to his personal exploits or his role as a policy maker, We Are All Americans offers new insights into Roosevelt’s use of public discourse to bind the nation together during one of the most polarized periods in its history.
- Copyright year: 2008
A Florida Fiddler
The Life and Times of Richard Seaman
University of Alabama Press
A musical life as glorious metaphor for Florida's cultural landscape
- Copyright year: 2007
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
University of Alabama Press
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.
- Copyright year: 2013
From Princess to Chief
Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina
University of Alabama Press
A collaborative life history of Priscilla Freeman Jacobs, From Princess to Chief tells the story of the first female chief (from 1986 to 2005) of the state-recognized Waccamaw Siouan Indian Tribe of North Carolina.
- Copyright year: 2013
An Alabama Songbook
Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals Collected by Byron Arnold
University of Alabama Press
A lavish presentation of 208 folksongs collected throughout Alabama in the 1940s
Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Rabbi Max Heller
Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
University of Alabama Press
This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.
When Colleges Sang
The Story of Singing in American College Life
University of Alabama Press
When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.
- Copyright year: 2013
Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had
The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley
University of Alabama Press
This rare correspondence between a soldier and his wife relates in poignant detail the struggle for survival on the battlefield as well as on the home front and gives voice to the underrepresented class of small farmers
- Copyright year: 2002
After Wallace
The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama
University of Alabama Press
All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangeness
- Copyright year: 2009
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