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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Like Grass before the Scythe
The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel 121st New York Infantry
By William Remmel; Edited by Robert Patrick Bender
University of Alabama Press
Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces
Garden Creek
The Archaeology of Interaction in Middle Woodland Appalachia
University of Alabama Press
Presents archaeological data to explore the concept of glocalization as applied in the Hopewell world
- Copyright year: 2020
Echoes of Emerson
Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather
University of Alabama Press
Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism and Realism—have come to be understood and defined
Cultures of Doing Good
Anthropologists and NGOs
University of Alabama Press
Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.
- Copyright year: 2018
Character, Community, and Politics
University of Alabama Press
A classic political philosophy text, available again
- Copyright year: 1982
Center Places and Cherokee Towns
Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
University of Alabama Press
Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
- Copyright year: 2018
Henry Bradley Plant
Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South
By Canter Brown
University of Alabama Press
The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida
- Copyright year: 2020
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism
Edited by Todd M. Ahlman and Gerald F. Schroedl
University of Alabama Press
New perspectives on Caribbean historical archaeology that go beyond the colonial plantation
- Copyright year: 2019
Dog and Gun
A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting, Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents
By Johnson Jones Hooper; Introduction by Philip D. Beidler
University of Alabama Press
Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting – clearly distinct from hunting for food – in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs.
- Copyright year: 1992
Unknown Waters
A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
By Alfred Scott McLaren; Foreword by William R. Anderson
University of Alabama Press
Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War
The Perfect Lion
The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham
University of Alabama Press
Maxwell’s work provides the first complete, deeply researched biography of Pelham, perhaps Alabama’s most notable Civil War figure, and explains his enduring attraction.
Haints
American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions
University of Alabama Press
Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction
- Copyright year: 2011
Duped
Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception
University of Alabama Press
A scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods
- Copyright year: 2020
Cosella Wayne
Or, Will and Destiny
By Cora WIlburn; Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna
University of Alabama Press
The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman
- Copyright year: 2019
Family Matters
James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home
University of Alabama Press
The first full-length study of a pivotal figure in American evangelical faith
- Copyright year: 2019
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 27
Theatre and Embodiment
Edited by Sarah McCarroll; Introduction by Sarah McCarroll
University of Alabama Press
A substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre
- Copyright year: 2019
Masses and Motets
A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue
- Copyright year: 2019
Drain Songs
Stories and a Novella
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A collection of related stories that deal with the anxiety, pain, and ennui of addiction and withdrawal
- Copyright year: 2019
Bay Boy
Stories of a Childhood in Point Clear, Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A charming, humorous, and colorful coming-of-age memoir
- Copyright year: 2019
Re-Creating Nature
Science, Technology, and Human Values in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies
- Copyright year: 2019
Letters to Jargon
The Correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams
Edited by Andrew Rippeon
University of Alabama Press
Gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by a crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters
- Copyright year: 2019
The Battle over Peleliu
Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War
University of Alabama Press
An ethnographic and historical account of the commercial, cultural, and military encroachment by Japan and the United States on the island nation of Palau
Slater Orchard
An Etymology
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization
- Copyright year: 2019
Columbus, Georgia, 1865
The Last True Battle of the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
A thoroughly researched account of a memorable Civil War battle
Unmastering the Script
Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness
- Copyright year: 2019
Archaeology below the Cliff
Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society
University of Alabama Press
First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation
- Copyright year: 2019
The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma
Archaeology from the WPA Era until Today
University of Alabama Press
Revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites
- Copyright year: 2019
George Galphin's Intimate Empire
The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America
University of Alabama Press
A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South
- Copyright year: 2019
The Old Federal Road in Alabama
An Illustrated Guide
University of Alabama Press
A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's development
- Copyright year: 2019
Octopus Crowd
Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age
University of Alabama Press
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia
- Copyright year: 2019
The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods
University of Alabama Press
Alabama’s history and culture revealed through fourteen iconic foods, dishes, and beverages
- Copyright year: 2019
To My Dearest Wife, Lide
Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855
By M. Patrick Sauer and David A. Ranzan
University of Alabama Press
A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy
- Copyright year: 2019
Charles Valentine Riley
Founder of Modern Entomology
University of Alabama Press
Riley propelled entomology from a collector’s parlor hobby of the nineteenth century to the serious study of insects in the Modern Age
- Copyright year: 2019
Beautiful War
Studies in a Dreadful Fascination
University of Alabama Press
A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?
Rhetorical Machines
Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics
University of Alabama Press
A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice
- Copyright year: 2019
Alabama Creates
200 Years of Art and Artists
University of Alabama Press
A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists
- Copyright year: 2019
Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars
Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare
Edited by Steven D. Smith and Clarence R. Geier
University of Alabama Press
Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology
- Copyright year: 2019
Early Alabama
An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798–1826
By Mike Bunn
University of Alabama Press
An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state’s origins
- Copyright year: 2019
Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life
University of Alabama Press
A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment
- Copyright year: 2019
A Century of Controversy
Constitutional Reform in Alabama
Edited by H. Bailey Thomson
University of Alabama Press
A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution
- Copyright year: 2002
Send the Alabamians
World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division
By Nimrod Thompson Frazer; Introduction by Edwin C. Bridges
University of Alabama Press
Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.
Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law
Edited by Hans Vilhelm Hansen, Fred J. Kauffeld, James B. Freeman, and Lilian Bermejo-Luque; Introduction by Hans Vilhelm Hansen
University of Alabama Press
An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof
- Copyright year: 2019
Wolfhounds and Polar Bears
The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920
University of Alabama Press
Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's (AEF) deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad
- Copyright year: 2016
The Stuff of Our Forebears
Willa Cather's Southern Heritage
University of Alabama Press
Connecting Cather's work to the southern literary tradition and the South of her youth
The Mark of Criminality
Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop
- Copyright year: 2017
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene
University of Alabama Press
A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers
Educating the Sons of Sugar
Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana
University of Alabama Press
A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
By James Wynn
University of Alabama Press
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
By Mark K. Bauman; Foreword by Ronald H. Bayor
University of Alabama Press
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
- Copyright year: 2019
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