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.
Populism to Progressivism In Alabama
“In this excellent study of Alabama politics, Hackney deftly analyzes the leadership, following, and essential character of Populism and Progressivism during the period from 1890 to 1910.” – Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- Copyright year: 2010
Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society
Pyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having "functions"? What elements and processes of human personality are universal, and why? What is the relationship between religion and personality? Why? What are the pyschological underpinnings of social manipulation?
- Copyright year: 1990
Air Power in War
The architect of the successful air strategy which led to Allied victory
- Copyright year: 2010
To Come to the Land
Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel
To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research,
previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now
known as Israel.
From Quarry to Cornfield
The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production
From Quarry to Cornfield provides an innovative model for examining the technology of hoe production and its contribution to the
agriculture of Mississippian communities.
- Copyright year: 2001
Katherine Anne Porter Remembered
Katherine Anne Porter Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Porter offering a revealing and intimate portrait of the elusive and complex American writer.
- Copyright year: 2010
From the Modernist Annex
American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
- Copyright year: 2010
Archaeological Salvage in the Walter F. George Basin of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama
Feasts
Archaeological and Ethnographic Pespectives on Food, Politics, and Power
In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.
- Copyright year: 2010
A Morning in June
Defending Outpost Harry
A first-hand account of the defense of Outpost Harry, a strategic position in Korea’s Chorwon Valley brutally contested by the US and Chinese armies as they jockeyed for advantageous positions in anticipation of peace negotiations in Panmunjom. Evans recounts these last days of the war and savage battles for control of important local terrain features against a determined Chinese assault.
- Copyright year: 2010