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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Alabama Railroads

University of Alabama Press

The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system

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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 2

The Late Woodland Period through Recent History

University of Alabama Press

Synthesizes the archaeology of the Apalachicola–lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia, from 1,300 years ago to recent times

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Too Far on a Whim

The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy

University of Alabama Press

Argues that the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion for its World War II fleet was a tactical, technological, and bureaucratic failure

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay

Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast

University of Alabama Press

Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and European contexts in the Southeast

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Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay

Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast

University of Alabama Press

Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and European contexts in the Southeast

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law

A Critical Reader

University of Alabama Press

Pairs passages from works of classical rhetoric with contemporary legal rulings to highlight and analyze their deep and abiding connections in matters of persuasion

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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

University of Alabama Press

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Disobedient Aesthetics

Surveillance, Bodies, Control

University of Alabama Press

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Southern Rivers

Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity

University of Alabama Press

Explores the Southeast’s imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinction

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Fitter, Happier

The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century

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Dear Incomprehension

On American Speculative Fiction

University of Alabama Press

A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction

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Unsettling Brazil

Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities’ responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte

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Theatre History Studies 2023, Vol. 42

University of Alabama Press

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

University of Alabama Press

An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century


 

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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 1

Prehistory through the Middle Woodland Period

University of Alabama Press

The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Tannery Bay

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A volume which explores Black Joy, Queer Joy, and the ways in which family is both biological and chosen

  • Copyright year: 2024
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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three

University of Alabama Press

Fresh perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from #RadTrad to the “FeeJee Mermaid”
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind

The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author

University of Alabama Press

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own


 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Houseboat Veronica

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2


 

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Blessed Are the Activists

Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala

University of Alabama Press

Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Tattered Kimonos in Japan

Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

University of Alabama Press

Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict

 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Uncanny Fidelity

Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television

University of Alabama Press

How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean


 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Time in the Barrel

A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien

University of Alabama Press

A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island

Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

University of Alabama Press

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Aggression and Sufferings

Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South

University of Alabama Press

A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity

 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Case for Single Motherhood

Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations

University of Alabama Press

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Gringos Get Rich

Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music

University of Alabama Press

Documents counter-imperialism in Chilean music since the 1960s
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination

University of Alabama Press

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts



 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context

Reformer and Social Critic, 1869–1910

University of Alabama Press

The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrations
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Between Two Homelands

Argentine Migration to and from Israel

University of Alabama Press

Examines the experiences of thousands of Jewish Argentines migrated to and from Israel
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Anything but Novel

Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative

University of Alabama Press

The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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There Is Only One Ghost in the World

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A rabbit hole of memory and longing
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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School

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Both a needed exorcism of academia and a comedic portrait of the artist seeking some means to survive


 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Written in the Sky

Lessons of a Southern Daughter

University of Alabama Press

Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Dixie Heretic

The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy

University of Alabama Press

A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Bowed Some, Chanted a Little

Philip Whalen's Zen Journals and the San Francisco Renaissance

University of Alabama Press

The literary journals of a key figure in both the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance movements of the New American Poetry, and an ordained Zen Buddhist priest

 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Dreamer Nation

Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials

How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945

University of Alabama Press

Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Tense Times

Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture

University of Alabama Press

How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ways to Disappear

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Winner of FC2’s Catherine Doctorow Prize in Innovative Fiction
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Sustaining Air

The Life of Larry Eigner

University of Alabama Press

The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry

 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Soloveitchik’s Children

Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America

University of Alabama Press

A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Soloveitchik's Children

Irving Greenberg, David Hartman, Jonathan Sacks, and the Future of Jewish Theology in America

University of Alabama Press

A close study of three of Soloveitchik’s most influential disciples in Jewish thought and philosophy
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice

Transformational Action for Positive Peace

University of Alabama Press

Introduces an analytic model for how archaeologists can work toward social justice

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Congress of States

Proceedings of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America

Edited by David Carlson
University of Alabama Press

A landmark publication of public reports that reveal the founding of the Confederate government

 

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The Archaeology of Protestant Landscapes

Revealing the Formation of Community Identity in the US South

University of Alabama Press

How religious institutions used landscapes and architecture to express their religious and social ideologies
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Oktoberfest in Brazil

Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity

University of Alabama Press

An ethnography that explores Brazil’s domestic tourism through sensescapes and the economy of aesthetics framework
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Plant Foods of Greece

A Culinary Journey to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages

University of Alabama Press

A synthesis of culinary practices of prehistoric Greece based on plant food ingredients
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Glancing Visions

Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

University of Alabama Press

How the “glance” rather than the “gaze” in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism
 

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Bold Conscience

Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

University of Alabama Press

How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action

  • Copyright year: 2023
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