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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Poets Beyond the Barricade
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960
University of Alabama Press
A study of how poetry and discussions of it shape public consciousness, from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror today.
- Copyright year: 2012
Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists
Photographs by Jerry Siegel
By Jerry Siegel; Foreword by Marilyn Laufer
University of Alabama Press
A stunning portrait collection of some of the finest southern artists.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Modern Age
Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence
By Kent Baxter
University of Alabama Press
The Calusa
Linguistic and Cultural Origins and Relationships
University of Alabama Press
Presents a full phonological and morphological analysis of the total corpus of surviving Calusa language data left by a literate Spanish captive held by the Calusa from his early youth to adulthood
- Copyright year: 2012
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoléon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801–1804
University of Alabama Press
A deeply researched and definitive account of the climactic battle at the end of the Haitian Revolution
- Copyright year: 2011
Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections
An Annotated Bibliography
University of Alabama Press
This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War–related manuscript collection stored in Georgia’s many repositories. With this guide in hand, researchers will no longer spend countless hours pouring through online catalogs, emailing archivists, and wondering if they have exhausted every lead in their pursuit of firsthand information about the war and the experiences of those who lived through and were impacted by it.
- Copyright year: 2011
Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie
University of Alabama Press
Thomas Jefferson Cypert (1827-1918) was a staunch Union man in one of the most Confederate areas of Tennessee, and became Captain of Company A in the 2nd Regiment, Mounted Infantry, U.S. Tennessee Volunteers. After the war, he served at least one term in the Tennessee State Senate. He wrote this manuscript for publication to defend his stance and recount his wartime experiences. It was never published, and has existed in his family in manuscript form until now.
- Copyright year: 2011
José de Bustamante and Central American Independence
Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis
University of Alabama Press
The first full-length study of a significant figure of the Spanish Enlightenment
Building a Nation
Chickasaw Museums and the Construction of History and Heritage
University of Alabama Press
Using museum and heritage sites as places to define itself as a coherent and legitimate contemporary Indian nation, the Chickasaw Nation struggles to remain accurate and yet apace with the evolving nature of museums
- Copyright year: 2011
Reborn in America
French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure, 1815-1865
By Eric Saugera; Translated by Madeleine Velguth
University of Alabama Press
The rich detail presented in this story adds a great deal to what we know of ante-bellum Alabama and the international intrigues of the decades after Napoleon’s final defeat, and sheds light as well on the other less glamorous refugees, planters fleeing from the revolution in Haiti, whose interest was much more purely agricultural, and whose lasting influence on the region was far more durable.
- Copyright year: 2011
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