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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As If a Bird Flew By Me
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Two women, separated by time and place, yoked by heritage and history
- Copyright year: 2011
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Edited by Kendall R. Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes
University of Alabama Press
Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.
- Copyright year: 2011
Thirteen Loops
Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
University of Alabama Press
A vivid and troubling portrait of violence, lynching, and race relations over a fifty-year period in the state of Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2011
Four for a Quarter
Fictions
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Four is the magic number in Michael Martone’s Four for a Quarter. In subject—four fifth Beatles, four tie knots, four retellings of the first Xerox, even the sex lives of the Fantastic Four—and in structure—the book is separated into four sections, with each section further divided into four chapterettes—Four for a Quarter returns again and again to its originating number, making chaos comprehensible and mystery out of the most ordinary.
- Copyright year: 2011
Keeping the Faith
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
By Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
Wayne Flynt tells the story of his life and his courageous battles against an indifferent or hostile power structure with modesty but always with honesty. In doing so he tells us the story of how Alabama institutions really are manipulated, and why we should care.
- Copyright year: 2011
Sold Down the River
Slavery in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia
By Anthony Gene Carey; Other primary creator Historic Chattahoochee Historic Chattahoochee Commission
University of Alabama Press
Examines a small part of slavery’s North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia
- Copyright year: 2011
The Kings of Casino Park
Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
University of Alabama Press
Aiello addresses long-held misunderstandings and misinterpretations of the Louisiana Monarchs black baseball team’s 1932 season. He tells the almost-unknown story of the team—its time, its fortunes, its hometown—and positions black baseball in the context of American racial discrimination. He illuminates the culture-changing power of a baseball team and the importance of sport in cultural and social history.
- Copyright year: 2011
For the Love of Alabama
Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson
University of Alabama Press
For the Love of Alabama is a compilation of the most poignant and trenchant writing—editorials, reportage, and columns—by two of Alabama’s most committed and reform-minded journalists. Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson both died young: Casey at forty-eight and Thomson at fifty-four. Nevertheless, through their work at the Birmingham News and the Mobile Press-Register, respectively, they labored tirelessly to illuminate and confront the state’s chronic and interrelated problems of race, government, education, and poverty.
- Copyright year: 2011
Year of the Pig
University of Alabama Press
Year of the Pig is a personal journal of one avid hunter's pursuit of wild pigs in eleven American states during the Chinese calendar's "Year of the Pig" (2007).
- Copyright year: 2011
A Soldier's Story of His Regiment (61st Georgia)
And Incidentally of the Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade Army of Northern Virginia
Introduction by Keith S. Bohannon; By George Washington Nichols
University of Alabama Press
One of the classic narratives of front line infantry service in the Army of Northern Virginia
- Copyright year: 2011
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