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 Secret Table
By Mark Mirsky
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Two novellas of young men embracing a mystical past
American Public Administration
Past, Present, Future
Edited by Frederick C. Mosher
University of Alabama Press
A seminal collection of essays, addressing such questions as the evolving roles of civil servants, the education and training of civil servants, and the ways to balance civil servants’ expertise with respect for democratic governance
- Copyright year: 1975
Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present
University of Alabama Press
Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics
- Copyright year: 1975
Comatose Kids
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A 93-year old European Doktor kidnaps two hopeless cases from their hospitals and attempts to cure them by convincing them that they are long-lost lovers
- Copyright year: 1976
Temporary Sanity
By Thomas Glynn
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Explores a fictional county where the desperation of dirt farming produces a mind that questions not just the limits of sanity, but indeed its rightful continent
- Copyright year: 1976
Amateur People
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A book capable of making us change the ways we like to think of ourselves
- Copyright year: 1977
Moving Parts
By Steve Katz
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Explore the four Moving Parts through which obsession exfoliates identity
- Copyright year: 1977
Statements 2
New Fiction
Edited by Jonathan Baumbach and Peter Spielberg
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Brings together fiction of wide-ranging visions and styles
1777
The Year of the Hangman
University of Alabama Press
A detailed study of the British invasion from Canada during the War of Independence
- Copyright year: 1977
The Scalawag In Alabama Politics, 1865–1881
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1977
Meningitis
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An extraordinary collection from the Ukrainian émigré writer Tarnawsky.
- Copyright year: 1978
Emergency Exit
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
People in a town in Connecticut that have just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times
Rope Dances
By David Porush
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Many strangenesses may be found in this rare and rarefied collection, rendered in a powerful and careful prose
- Copyright year: 1979
Chez Charlotte and Emily
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
- Copyright year: 1979
Romaniote Penitential Poetry
Edited by Leon J. Weinberger
University of Alabama Press
A collection of Penitential poems for the Days of Awe that bears eloquent witness to a once-flourishing Romaniote presence in the Balkan states during early Byzantine times
- Copyright year: 1980
The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
The only comprehensive book about the state's 182 species and subspecies of snakes, lizards, turtles, frogs, and salamanders
- Copyright year: 1980
New Public Administration
University of Alabama Press
This book is generally about public administration and particularly about new public administration, a product of the turbulent late 1960s and the 1970s.
- Copyright year: 1980
Four Roses in Three Acts
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
It is Paris and the Twenties again and Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway are much alive.
- Copyright year: 1981
History of Metals in Colonial America
University of Alabama Press
In the struggle to create an indigenous industry, in the efforts to encourage and support the work of metals craftsmen, in the defiance of British attempts to regulate manufacturing of metals, the colonial society developed a metals technology that became the basis for future industrial growth.
- Copyright year: 1981
Winnebago Mysteries and Other Stories
By Moira Crone
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Fresh writings about women, love, and strength
- Copyright year: 1982
My Father More or Less
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Deals with the confrontation between an aggrieved 18 year old boy and his estranged novelist-turned-screenwriter father
Literature at the Barricades
The American Writer in the 1930s
Edited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson
University of Alabama Press
This collection captures the sense—at times the ordeal—of the 1930s literary experience in America. Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems and pressures that characterized the experience of American writers and influenced their works.
- Copyright year: 1982
Hugo Black
The Alabama Years
University of Alabama Press
A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to the Court
- Copyright year: 1982
Up Before Daylight
Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939
By James Seay Brown; Foreword by Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
These compelling accounts of hard times and hard work reveal human courage, dignity, and resilience from a generation that endured the Great Depression.
- Copyright year: 1982
With a Southern Accent
University of Alabama Press
“Liddell’s autobiography has a sunlit quality and gives a picture of a happy childhood in a little town in Alabama. Her recollections of family life are humorous, nostalgic, vivid and full of the bright, clear air of youth.” – Book of the Month Club News
- Copyright year: 1982
Music for a Broken Piano
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The impact and interplay within a group of 40 people, imbued with revolutionary spirit
- Copyright year: 1983
Bulgaria's Synagogue Poets
The Kastoreans
Edited by Leon J. Weinberger; Introduction by Leon J. Weinberger
University of Alabama Press
Critical Edition with introduction and commentary by Leon J. Weinberger
- Copyright year: 1109
Agnes and Sally
By Lewis Warsh
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A meticulously schemed novel of those arid pastures where men and women are trapped between desire and reality
- Copyright year: 1984
Acts of Mind
Conversations with Contemporary Poets
University of Alabama Press
A good poem is, to borrow from Wallace Stevens, a “poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice” (“Of Modern Poetry”), a poem of the mind that both thinks and feels
- Copyright year: 1984
Lower Piedmont Country
The Uplands of the Deep South
By Herman Clarence Nixon; Introduction by Sarah Newman Shouse
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1980
The Central Intelligence Agency
History and Documents
Edited by William M. Leary
University of Alabama Press
Provides for the first time a complete and dispassionate history of the most discussed and least known agency in the history of the American Republic
- Copyright year: 1984
Attack and Die
Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
By Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson
University of Alabama Press
Describes tactical theory in the 1850s and suggests how each related to Civil War tactics
- Copyright year: 1984
Stolen Stories
By Steve Katz
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Stories of conviction, written with passion and clarity
Indian Place Names in Alabama
By William A. Read; Edited by James B. McMillan
University of Alabama Press
"What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama.—from the Foreword
Originally published by Professor Read in 1937, this volume was revised, updated, and annotated in 1984 by James B. McMillan and remains the single best compedium on the topic.
- Copyright year: 1984
The Mythologizing of Mark Twain
Edited by Sara Davis and Philip D. Beidler
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1984
Dixiecrats and Democrats
Alabama Politics
University of Alabama Press
A pivotal in the study of history and politics, not only in Alabama but in the other states of the South
- Copyright year: 1984
This Destructive War
The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation.
- Copyright year: 1985
The Forge
By Thomas S. Stribling; Introduction by Randy K. Cross
University of Alabama Press
The first book in T. S. Stribling's award-winning Vaiden Trilogy about life in north Alabama at the onset, during, and after the Civil War
- Copyright year: 1985
The Store
By Thomas S. Stribling; Introduction by Randy K. Cross
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1985
Heroes and Villains
By Jerry Bumpus
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A collection of nine short stories from the shadows
Modern Romances
By Judy Lopatin
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
These seventeen "romances" invent modern versions of Adventure, Obsession, Perversion—and even Love—with a cool hand and a spiky wit
Spectator
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Traces the course of disaffection, conveying its inexorability in a hallucinatory narrative about the precarious nature of love
Jewish Poets in Crete
Edited by Leon J. Weinberger
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1986
Foundation Stone
By Lella Warren; Introduction by Nancy Grisham Anderson
University of Alabama Press
Using the history of Alabama and the stories of her pioneering ancestors, Lella Warren created the Whetstone clan who settled Alabama in the 1820s, helped lead it into the prosperity of the 1850s, and fought for it in the War Between the States.
- Copyright year: 1986
Unfinished Cathedral
By Thomas S. Stribling; Introduction by Randy K. Cross
University of Alabama Press
The third volume of T.S. Stribling’s Southern trilogy and was originally published in 1934
- Copyright year: 1986
Ante-Bellum Alabama
Town and Country
By Weymouth T. Jordan; Introduction by Kenneth R. Johnson
University of Alabama Press
Offers insights into important facets of Alabama’s ante-bellum history
- Copyright year: 1986
Alabama Canoe Rides and Float Trips
By John Foshee
University of Alabama Press
A detailed guide to 102 canoe trips on the Cahaba River and 40 other creeks and rivers within the state
- Copyright year: 1986
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