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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Surviving Spanish Conquest
Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
University of Alabama Press
Reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550
- Copyright year: 2017
When the Wolf Camped at Our Door
My Childhood in the Great Depression
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the hardships and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors experienced in a close-knit southern rural community during the Great Depression
- Copyright year: 2022
Evangelical News
Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and how it navigated and sustained religious convictions in a time of dramatic social change
- Copyright year: 2022
Reframing Rhetorical History
Cases, Theories, and Methodologies
Edited by Kathleen J. Turner and Jason Edward Black; Preface by Kathleen J. Turner; Introduction by Jason Edward Black
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical history
Illusion Is More Precise than Precision
The Poetry of Marianne Moore
University of Alabama Press
Erickson examines the work of Marianne Moore in order to provide some consistently successful strategies for understanding her poetry
- Copyright year: 1992
Getting Out of the Mud
The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928
By Martin T. Olliff; Foreword by David O. Whitten
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobiles
- Copyright year: 2017
The Great Beyond
Art in the Age of Annihilation
University of Alabama Press
Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality—forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more
- Copyright year: 2022
Tell Mother I'm in Paradise
Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador
Edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson; By Ana Margarita Gasteazoro; Introduction by Erik Ching
University of Alabama Press
The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience
- Copyright year: 2022
Crayfishes of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive assessment of the 99 known species of crayfishes inhabiting the state of Alabama
- Copyright year: 2022
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
By Lee Rozelle
University of Alabama Press
A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster
- Copyright year: 2016
Distracted by Alabama
Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore
University of Alabama Press
Bestselling reflections on fifty years of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama by an Alabama writers and scholar
- Copyright year: 2022
Their Determination to Remain
A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina
By Lance Greene
University of Alabama Press
The remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears
- Copyright year: 2022
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 29
Theatre and Race
Edited by Andrew Gibb
University of Alabama Press
Essays whose composition and editing were undertaken almost entirely within the transformed cultural and professional landscape of 2020
- Copyright year: 2022
Wreading
A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?
By Jed Rasula
University of Alabama Press
A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
- Copyright year: 2022
Of Mules and Mud
The Story of Alabama Folk Potter Jerry Brown
University of Alabama Press
The life and times of Alabama folk potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words
- Copyright year: 2022
Whenever Two or More Are Gathered
Relationship as the Heart of Ethical Discourse
By Michael M. Harmon and O. C. McSwite
University of Alabama Press
Makes the case for human relationship as the proper foundation of administrative ethics
- Copyright year: 2011
Richmond's Priests and Prophets
Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways in which white Christian leaders in Richmond, Virginia navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a segregated society
- Copyright year: 2017
Climate Politics on the Border
Environmental Justice Rhetorics
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community
- Copyright year: 2022
Beyond the Boomerang
From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics
Edited by Christopher L. Pallas and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood; Afterword by Jan Aart Scholte; Foreword by Marisa von Bülow
University of Alabama Press
Essays that generate a new, empirically grounded theory of transnational advocacy
- Copyright year: 2022
Valor and Courage
The Story of the USS Block Island Escort Carriers in World War II
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres
- Copyright year: 2021
White Wedding
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An enigmatic woman wanders from a pleasure mansion to a backyard wedding, upending the lives of everyone present
- Copyright year: 2022
The Fabric of Resistance
Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru
By Di Hu
University of Alabama Press
Examines the long-term social conditions that enabled large-scale rebellions in late Spanish colonial Peru
- Copyright year: 2022
Swimming with Dead Stars
By Vi Khi Nao
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation
- Copyright year: 2022
Finding the Weight of Things
Larry Eigner's Ecrippoetics
By George Hart
University of Alabama Press
An innovative study of how a prescient poet imagined ecology and embodiment
- Copyright year: 2022
Archipelagoes of My South
Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays representing forty-five years of reflection on the central problems of southern history bound together by a common concern with defining the crucial interaction of race and class in the formation of southern politics and life
- Copyright year: 2016
A New Day in the Delta
Inventing School Desegregation As You Go
University of Alabama Press
Explores Mississippi’s school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacher
- Copyright year: 2008
Good Maya Women
Migration and Revitalization of Clothing and Language in Highland Guatemala
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes the forced migration of Maya women from highland Guatemala and their turn toward language and Indigenous clothing in their homeland
- Copyright year: 2022
Fairhope, 1894–1954
The Story of a Single Tax Colony
University of Alabama Press
The remarkable and improbable story of the utopian single-tax social experiment that gave rise to one of the most unique and colorful communities along the Gulf Coast
- Copyright year: 2022
Conceptualisms
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art
Edited by Steve Tomasula
University of Alabama Press
A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators
- Copyright year: 2022
A Time to Speak
The Story of a Young American Lawyer's Struggle for His City—and Himself
By Charles Morgan; Foreword by Doug Jones
University of Alabama Press
Brings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march toward racial justice in the South, and the nation
- Copyright year: 2022
I the People
The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
University of Alabama Press
A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism
- Copyright year: 2022
Theatre History Studies 2021, Vol 40
Edited by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
University of Alabama Press
A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference
- Copyright year: 2021
The Defoliation of America
Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests
By Amy Marie Hay; Foreword by Mark D. Hersey
University of Alabama Press
Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century
- Copyright year: 2022
The Child before the Court
Judgment, Citizenship, and the Constitution
University of Alabama Press
A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of children in historical and contemporary legal discourse
- Copyright year: 2021
On Wide Seas
The US Navy in the Jacksonian Era
University of Alabama Press
A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2022
Eugene O'Neill Remembered
Edited by Brenda Murphy and George Monteiro
University of Alabama Press
Eugene O'Neill Remembered is a collection of reminiscences by O'Neill's contemporaries, friends, and family that illuminate the life of one of America's most significant playwrights.
- Copyright year: 2017
Desert Rose
The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
By Edythe Scott Bagley; Afterword by Bernice King
University of Alabama Press
Details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education
- Copyright year: 2012
Deep South Dynasty
The Bankheads of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
The sweeping story of an ambitious and once-powerful southern family
- Copyright year: 2022
Detroit Remains
Archaeology and Community Histories of Six Legendary Places
University of Alabama Press
An archaeologically grounded history of six legendary places in Detroit
- Copyright year: 2022
American Examples
New Conversations about Religion, Volume One
Edited by Michael J. Altman
University of Alabama Press
Fresh new perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from a church-architecture mecca of Southeast Indiana to what an atheist parent believes
- Copyright year: 2022
The Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
University of Alabama Press
Explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independence
Suburban Dreams
Imagining and Building the Good Life
University of Alabama Press
Explores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the “good life”
Genius Belabored
Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis
University of Alabama Press
The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to prevent childbed fever
The Species Maker
A Novel
University of Alabama Press
A historical novel about the role of science in modern life, set against the backdrop of the 1925 Scopes Trial
- Copyright year: 2021
In the Blood of Our Brothers
Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870
University of Alabama Press
Details the abolition of the slave trade in the Atlantic World to the 1860s
- Copyright year: 2021
Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him
Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South
University of Alabama Press
Examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 1915 in ways that continue to manifest today
The Rebel Yell
A Cultural History
University of Alabama Press
The first comprehensive history of the fabled Confederate battle cry from its origins and myths through its use in American popular culture
Far East, Down South
Asians in the American South
Edited by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki; Introduction by David M Reimers; Preface by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki
University of Alabama Press
Offers a collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in the American southeast
- Copyright year: 2016
Writing Habits
Historicism, Philosophy, and English Benedictine Convents, 1600–1800
University of Alabama Press
The first in-depth examination of the texts produced in English Benedictine convents between 1600 and 1800
- Copyright year: 2021
Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
University of Alabama Press
A deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s introduction to the Volunteer State’s most enduring ghost stories
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