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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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
Polacos in Argentina
Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s
- Copyright year: 2020
Like Grass before the Scythe
The Life and Death of Sgt. William Remmel 121st New York Infantry
By William Remmel; Edited by Robert Patrick Bender
University of Alabama Press
Uncommonly articulate letters from a young German-American soldier with the Union forces
Garden Creek
The Archaeology of Interaction in Middle Woodland Appalachia
University of Alabama Press
Presents archaeological data to explore the concept of glocalization as applied in the Hopewell world
- Copyright year: 2020
Echoes of Emerson
Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather
University of Alabama Press
Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism and Realism—have come to be understood and defined
Cultures of Doing Good
Anthropologists and NGOs
University of Alabama Press
Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.
- Copyright year: 2018
Character, Community, and Politics
University of Alabama Press
A classic political philosophy text, available again
- Copyright year: 1982
Center Places and Cherokee Towns
Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
University of Alabama Press
Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
University of Alabama Press
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
- Copyright year: 2018
Henry Bradley Plant
Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South
By Canter Brown
University of Alabama Press
The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida
- Copyright year: 2020
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism
Edited by Todd M. Ahlman and Gerald F. Schroedl
University of Alabama Press
New perspectives on Caribbean historical archaeology that go beyond the colonial plantation
- Copyright year: 2019
Dog and Gun
A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting, Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents
By Johnson Jones Hooper; Introduction by Philip D. Beidler
University of Alabama Press
Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting – clearly distinct from hunting for food – in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs.
- Copyright year: 1992
Unknown Waters
A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
By Alfred Scott McLaren; Foreword by William R. Anderson
University of Alabama Press
Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War
The Perfect Lion
The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham
University of Alabama Press
Maxwell’s work provides the first complete, deeply researched biography of Pelham, perhaps Alabama’s most notable Civil War figure, and explains his enduring attraction.
Haints
American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions
University of Alabama Press
Examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction
- Copyright year: 2011
Duped
Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception
University of Alabama Press
A scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods
- Copyright year: 2020
Cosella Wayne
Or, Will and Destiny
By Cora WIlburn; Edited by Jonathan D. Sarna
University of Alabama Press
The first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman
- Copyright year: 2019
Family Matters
James Dobson and Focus on the Family’s Crusade for the Christian Home
University of Alabama Press
The first full-length study of a pivotal figure in American evangelical faith
- Copyright year: 2019
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 27
Theatre and Embodiment
Edited by Sarah McCarroll; Introduction by Sarah McCarroll
University of Alabama Press
A substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre
- Copyright year: 2019
Masses and Motets
A Francesca Fruscella Mystery
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue
- Copyright year: 2019
Drain Songs
Stories and a Novella
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A collection of related stories that deal with the anxiety, pain, and ennui of addiction and withdrawal
- Copyright year: 2019
Bay Boy
Stories of a Childhood in Point Clear, Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A charming, humorous, and colorful coming-of-age memoir
- Copyright year: 2019
Re-Creating Nature
Science, Technology, and Human Values in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies
- Copyright year: 2019
Letters to Jargon
The Correspondence between Larry Eigner and Jonathan Williams
Edited by Andrew Rippeon
University of Alabama Press
Gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by a crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters
- Copyright year: 2019
The Battle over Peleliu
Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War
University of Alabama Press
An ethnographic and historical account of the commercial, cultural, and military encroachment by Japan and the United States on the island nation of Palau
Slater Orchard
An Etymology
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization
- Copyright year: 2019
Columbus, Georgia, 1865
The Last True Battle of the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
A thoroughly researched account of a memorable Civil War battle
Unmastering the Script
Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness
- Copyright year: 2019
Archaeology below the Cliff
Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society
University of Alabama Press
First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation
- Copyright year: 2019
The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma
Archaeology from the WPA Era until Today
University of Alabama Press
Revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites
- Copyright year: 2019
George Galphin's Intimate Empire
The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America
University of Alabama Press
A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South
- Copyright year: 2019
The Old Federal Road in Alabama
An Illustrated Guide
University of Alabama Press
A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's development
- Copyright year: 2019
Octopus Crowd
Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age
University of Alabama Press
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia
- Copyright year: 2019
The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods
University of Alabama Press
Alabama’s history and culture revealed through fourteen iconic foods, dishes, and beverages
- Copyright year: 2019
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