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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Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration
Edited by Joanna Ostapkowicz and Jonathan A. Hanna; Foreword by Peter E. Siegel; Epilogue by L. Antonio Curet
University of Alabama Press
Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials
- Copyright year: 2021
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
An expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state’s distinctive political machinery
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
By Mordecai Lee
University of Alabama Press
A masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission
- Copyright year: 2016
The Glory Road
A Gospel Gypsy Life
University of Alabama Press
Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows
- Copyright year: 2021
Life Out of Balance
Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World
By Joel B. Hagen; Foreword by Alexandra Evonne Hui
University of Alabama Press
Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century
- Copyright year: 2021
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Edited by David H. Dye
University of Alabama Press
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee is a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era.
- Copyright year: 2016
Kennesaw
Natural History of a Southern Mountain
University of Alabama Press
The first in-depth ecological treatment of one of the most frequently visited National Battlefield parks in the country
- Copyright year: 2021
Interpreting Sacred Ground
The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields
University of Alabama Press
Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance.
Here I Stand
The Life and Legacy of John Beecher
University of Alabama Press
Biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society
Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology
Formative Cultures Reconsidered
University of Alabama Press
A reconsideration of the seminal projectile point typology
- Copyright year: 2021
Reconstruction Politics in a Deep South State
Alabama, 1865–1874
University of Alabama Press
Recounts in detail the volatile political period in Alabama following the end of the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2021
Virtuous Citizens
Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how contemporary manifestations of civic publics trace directly to the early days of nationhood
- Copyright year: 2021
The Cosmos Revealed
Precontact Mississippian Rock Art at Painted Bluff, Alabama
By Jan F. Simek, Erin E. Dunsmore, Johannes Loubser, and Sierra M. Bow; Foreword by LaDonna Brown; By (photographer) Alan Cressler
University of Alabama Press
The definitive rock art book on Painted Bluff, Alabama
- Copyright year: 2021
Impact Zone
The Battle of the DMZ in Vietnam, 1967–1968
By Jim Brown
University of Alabama Press
A Vietnam War combat memoir from the perspective of an artilleryman
Horses Dream of Money
Stories
By Angela Buck
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2021
Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic
Edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit
University of Alabama Press
New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic
- Copyright year: 2017
After the Whale
Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick
By Clark Davis
University of Alabama Press
Contextualizes Herman Melville’s short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s era
A Road Course in Early American Literature
Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst
University of Alabama Press
Essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity
- Copyright year: 2021
The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar
University of Alabama Press
These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals
- Copyright year: 2021
Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean
History and Archaeology
Edited by Ashley A. Dumas and Paul N. Eubanks
University of Alabama Press
Case studies examining the archaeological record of an overlooked mineral
- Copyright year: 2021
The Story of Food in the Human Past
How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are
University of Alabama Press
A sweeping overview of how and what humans have eaten in their long history as a species
- Copyright year: 2021
The Power of Their Will
Slaveholding Women in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
University of Alabama Press
A valuable narrative of the often paradoxical and conflicting human bonds between female owners and the enslaved in nineteenth-century Cuba
- Copyright year: 2021
Revolution as Reformation
Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688–1832
Edited by Peter C. Messer and William Harrison Taylor
University of Alabama Press
Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age
- Copyright year: 2021
Korean Showdown
National Policy and Military Strategy in a Limited War, 1951–1952
University of Alabama Press
A historical analysis of the policies and military strategies applied during the Korean War stalemate period
- Copyright year: 2021
Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite
By José Galindo
University of Alabama Press
A groundbreaking historical narrative of corruption and economic success in Mexico
- Copyright year: 2021
Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
- Copyright year: 2020
The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology by B. M. W. Schrapnel, Ph.D.
University of Alabama Press
This potpourri of satire on language use in Western culture will trigger chuckles and guffaws from an eclectic readership
- Copyright year: 1997
Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited
University of Alabama Press
Hill’s landmark work in southern religious history returns to print updated and expanded – and compellingly relevant
Dixie's Great War
World War I and the American South
University of Alabama Press
Examining the First World War through the lens of the American South
- Copyright year: 2021
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