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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Between the Sword and the Wall
The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
University of Alabama Press
Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- Copyright year: 2020
A War State All Over
Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause
University of Alabama Press
An in-depth political study of Alabama’s government during the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2020
The Spaces of Violence
By James Giles
University of Alabama Press
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels
The Blues Muse
Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry
University of Alabama Press
A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists
- Copyright year: 2018
American Poetry as Transactional Art
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art
- Copyright year: 2020
Architects of Memory
Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
University of Alabama Press
Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency
- Copyright year: 2020
Mark Twain
The Complete Interviews
Edited by Gary Scharnhorst
University of Alabama Press
The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection
- Copyright year: 2006
Engineering Security
The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861
University of Alabama Press
Thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.S. military defense during the National Period
Chesnutt and Realism
A Study of the Novels
By Ryan Simmons
University of Alabama Press
Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism
Portraits of Remembrance
Painting, Memory, and the First World War
University of Alabama Press
Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict
- Copyright year: 2020
Cookery
Food Rhetorics and Social Production
University of Alabama Press
The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries
- Copyright year: 2020
Goodbye, My Tribe
An Evangelical Exodus
By Vic Sizemore
University of Alabama Press
Memoir of a writer’s growing disenchantment with his evangelical upbringing
- Copyright year: 2020
Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions
By Ian Barnard
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender
- Copyright year: 2020
Home without Walls
Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era
University of Alabama Press
A critical examination of the Woman’s Missionary Union and how it shaped the views of Southern Baptist women
- Copyright year: 2020
Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights
A Brief History with Documents
University of Alabama Press
An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas
- Copyright year: 2020
A Final Reckoning
A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah
By Ruth Gutmann; Foreword by Kenneth Waltzer
University of Alabama Press
A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research
Feeding Cahokia
Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland
University of Alabama Press
An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia
- Copyright year: 2019
André Michaux in North America
Journals and Letters, 1785–1797
By André Michaux; Edited by Charlie Williams, Eliane M. Norman, and Walter K. Taylor; Translated by Eliane M. Norman; Foreword by James E. McClellan
University of Alabama Press
Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists
- Copyright year: 2020
Fictions of Certitude
Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920
University of Alabama Press
The search for belief and meaning among nineteenth-century intellectuals
- Copyright year: 2020
Between Dixie and Zion
Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel
University of Alabama Press
Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention
- Copyright year: 2020
Mark Twain, the World, and Me
"Following the Equator," Then and Now
University of Alabama Press
WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
A scholar accompanies Twain on his journey around the world
A scholar accompanies Twain on his journey around the world
- Copyright year: 2020
The Town of Whispering Dolls
Stories
By Susan Neville; Foreword by Shelley Jackson
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
WINNER OF FC2’S CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war
- Copyright year: 2020
The Green Revolution in the Global South
Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences
By R. Douglas Hurt; Foreword by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution
- Copyright year: 2020
The Book of Kane and Margaret
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
WINNER OF FC2’S RONALD SUKENICK INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona
- Copyright year: 2020
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Freemasonry in the American Civil War
University of Alabama Press
The first in-depth study of the Freemasons during the Civil War
Uprooted
Race, Public Housing, and the Archaeology of Four Lost New Orleans Neighborhoods
By D. Ryan Gray
University of Alabama Press
The archaeology of four New Orleans neighborhoods that were replaced by public housing projects
- Copyright year: 2020
Theatre History Studies 2019, Vol. 38
Edited by Sara Freeman; Introduction by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press
Peer-reviewed journal of theater history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC)
- Copyright year: 2019
Trees of Alabama
By Lisa J. Samuelson; By (photographer) Michael E. Hogan
University of Alabama Press
An easy-to-use guide to the most common trees in the state
- Copyright year: 2020
Mighty by Sacrifice
The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944
University of Alabama Press
Megadrought in the Carolinas
The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence
University of Alabama Press
Considers the Native American abandonment of the South Carolina coast
- Copyright year: 2020
War and Public Memory
Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Europe
University of Alabama Press
An introduction to key issues in the study of war and memory that examines significant conflicts in twentieth-century Europe
- Copyright year: 2020
The Founding of Alabama
Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County
By Frances Cabaniss Roberts; Edited by Thomas Reidy
University of Alabama Press
The most thorough history of Alabama’s Madison County region, widely available for the first time
- Copyright year: 2020
Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief
Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America
Edited by Stephen B. Carmody and Casey R. Barrier
University of Alabama Press
Archaeological case studies consider material evidence of religion and ritual in the pre-Columbian Eastern Woodlands
- Copyright year: 2020
Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail
Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands
- Copyright year: 2020
Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail
Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands
- Copyright year: 2020
Sweet Mystery
A Book of Remembering
University of Alabama Press
An exquisitely written memoir—combining sorrow and joy, anger and forgiveness, suffering and healing—that affirms the resilience and strength that imbue the human spirit
- Copyright year: 2020
Lives, Letters, and Quilts
Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance
University of Alabama Press
How writers, activists, and artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials
- Copyright year: 2020
Treatise On Laughter
By Laurent Joubert; Translated by Gregory David de Rocher
University of Alabama Press
Translation from French of an essay on the nature and character of human laughter
- Copyright year: 1980
The Yellowhammer War
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Edited by Kenneth W. Noe
University of Alabama Press
Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath.
- Copyright year: 2014
Sissy!
The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture
By Harry Thomas
University of Alabama Press
An innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys.
- Copyright year: 2017
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