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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The Cahokia Mounds

University of Alabama Press

Provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Somebody Told Me

The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg

University of Alabama Press

One of the South’s most loved authors

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Battle-Ground

By Ellen Glasgow; Introduction by Susan Goodman
University of Alabama Press

Captures the war's human toll and explores its social consequences


 

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Manassas

A Novel of the War

By Upton Sinclair; Edited by Kent Gramm; Introduction by Kent Gramm
University of Alabama Press

Centers on the moral dimension of the conflict as it traces a young Mississippi boy’s conversion from pro-slavery Southerner to abolitionist Union soldier

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The WPA Guide to 1930s Alabama

University of Alabama Press

A fascinating time capsule, this classic guide captures Alabama at a critical moment in its history between the Great Depression and World War II and its aftermath.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Chick Lit Postfeminist Fiction

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Original fiction of newly discovered writers and award winning work of notable writers

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri

University of Alabama Press

This comprehensive guide to the rock art of Missouri presents major design motifs and links those images to Native American beliefs.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Mythography

The Study of Myths and Rituals

University of Alabama Press

This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Discrepant Engagement

Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing

University of Alabama Press

This highly regarded and frequently referenced work of literary criticism is essential to any study of avant garde poetics.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture

A View from the Southeast

University of Alabama Press

Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the Southeast

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Rabbit Tales

Poetry Politic John Updike

University of Alabama Press

These essays show the Rabbit novels to be a carefully crafted fabric of changing hues and textures, of social realism and something of grandeur, worthy of Dickens, Thackeray, and Joyce.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Wrestlin' Jacob

A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country

University of Alabama Press

An important introduction to the efforts of whites to evangelize African Americans in the antebellum South
 

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Translating the Unspeakable

Poetry and the Innovative Necessity

University of Alabama Press

A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths.

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Re.La.Vir

By Jan Ramjerdi; By (photographer) Jean Vong
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Juxtaposing savvy technical language and graphic scenes of sexual violence, the novel creates an alternative techno fictive space for representing lived experience.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Measuring the Flow of Time

The Works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941

University of Alabama Press

This collection of Ford's works focuses on the development of ceramic chronology—a key tool in Americanist archaeology.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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In The Box Called Pleasure

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

The unique product of a poet with a gift for a kind of fiction that is full of formal bravado, strange incident, and a stranger but very human pathos

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Northwest Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

University of Alabama Press

This comprehensive compilation of Moore's archaeological reports on northwest Florida and southern Alabama and Georgia presents the earliest documented investigations of this region.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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It is Union and Liberty

Alabama Coal Miners, 1898-1998

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1999
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Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949

University of Alabama Press

This first book-length examination of the Klan in Alabama represents exhaustive research that challenges traditional interpretations.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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