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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Black Eagle

General Daniel "Chappie" James Jr.

University of Alabama Press

The success story of a much-decorated fighter pilot who overcame poverty and racism to become America's first African-American four-star general.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Another South

Experimental Writing in the South

Edited by Bill Lavender; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poets
 

  • Copyright year: 2002
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W. C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

University of Alabama Press

Explores W. C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system

  • Copyright year: 2002
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This Happy Land

The Jews of Colonial and Antebellum Charleston

University of Alabama Press

 This Happy Land charts the history of the Jewish community in Charleston, South Carolina, from the arrival of the first Jewish settlers in the 1690s until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Language Variety in the South

Perspectives in Black and White

University of Alabama Press

This volume evolved from a research conference on the English Language in the Southern United States sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and held at Columbia, South Carolina.

  • Copyright year: 1986
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Land, Labor, and Capital in Modern Yucatan

Essays in Regional History and Political Economy

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1991
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John Williams Walker

A Study in the Political, Social, and Cultural Life of the Old Southwest

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1964
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John Steinbeck

The Years of Greatness, 1936-1939

Edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi; Introduction by John H. Timmerman
University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1993
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Hinton Rowan Helper

Abolitionist and Racist

University of Alabama Press

Statistical fanatic, abolitionist, militant racist

  • Copyright year: 1965
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The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain

Father John B. Bannon

University of Alabama Press

The Confederacy’s Fighting Chaplain is the remarkable story of the Irishman who brought the Bible and his own resourcefulness and daring to both the battlefield and the diplomatic field—a story that has been largely ignored for more than 130 years. The biography of John B. Bannon also chronicles the forgotten Southerners—the Irish immigrants of the Confederacy—whose colorful and crucial role in the Civil War has been seriously neglected.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Churches of Christ in the 20th Century

Homer Hailey's Personal Journey of Faith

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2002
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Old Alabama Town

An Illustrated Guide

University of Alabama Press

This book is the first comprehensive guide to a premier Alabama historical and architectural landmark, lavishly illustrated and affordably priced.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Lay Down with Dogs

Hugh Otis Bynum and the Scottsboro First Monday Bombing

University of Alabama Press

Lay Down with Dogs is the story of a small southern town as it makes the transition from an agrarian hamlet to progressive New South suburbia.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties

University of Alabama Press

A noted scholar offers fresh ways of looking at two legendary American authors within the context of the decade's popular culture, philosophy, and intellectual history.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Catawba Valley Mississippian

Ceramics, Chronology, and Catawba Indians

University of Alabama Press

An excellent example of ethnohistory and archaeology working together, this model study reveals the origins of the Catawba Indians of North Carolina

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Between Contacts and Colonies

Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast

University of Alabama Press

This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period

  • Copyright year: 2002
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The New Electoral Politics of Race

University of Alabama Press

Examines the disappearance of extreme prejudice and racial rhetoric in modern political campaigns and the alternate ways that race continues to be an abiding issue in the electoral process

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Women in a Man's World, Crying

Essays

University of Alabama Press

This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Slavery's End In Tennessee

University of Alabama Press

This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Governor Andrew Johnson’s role in emancipation.

  • Copyright year: 1985
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Girl Imagined by Chance

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
  • Copyright year: 2002
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