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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Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
University of Alabama Press
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
- Copyright year: 2013
Jazz in the Time of the Novel
The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Jazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture’s understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices.
- Copyright year: 2013
Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Edited by Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman; Introduction by Araceli Tinajero and J. Brian Freeman
University of Alabama Press
Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico offers a novel approach to Mexican studies by considering the complex relationship between technology, politics, society, and culture.
- Copyright year: 2013
Mother Box and Other Tales
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The eleven stories and one novella of Mother Box, and Other Tales bring together everyday reality and something that is dramatically not in compelling narratives of new possibilities.
- Copyright year: 2013
Eclipse of Empires
World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another.
- Copyright year: 2013
Walt Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Women Reformers
University of Alabama Press
Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture.
Rhetoric and the Republic
Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America
University of Alabama Press
Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.
- Copyright year: 2007
Race and Displacement
Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Maha Marouan and Merinda Simmons; Foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr.; Introduction by Philip D. Beidler; Afterword by Trudier Harris
University of Alabama Press
Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.
- Copyright year: 2013
Expectation
A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
On the surface a murder mystery—a detective’s search for the killer of five people in Denver—Expectation is also, among other things, a meditation on the relationship between language and music.
- Copyright year: 2013
From a Love of History
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama
By Stephen M. Rowe; Foreword by Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces one of the most important archives of southern history and literature ever gathered in one place.
- Copyright year: 2013
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