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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Thirteen Mississippi 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 Mississippi’s thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations
Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen
More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition
University of Alabama Press
A deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s home state of Alabama
- Copyright year: 2016
Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts
Commemorative Edition
University of Alabama Press
A commemorative facsimile edition of the beloved and best-selling second book in famed national folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s southern ghosts series
- Copyright year: 2015
A Strong and Steady Pulse
Stories from a Cardiologist
University of Alabama Press
A seasoned cardiologist shares his experiences, opinions, and recommendations about heart disease and other cardiac problems
- Copyright year: 2021
Tiger Beetles of the Southeastern United States
A Field Guide
University of Alabama Press
Combines current data and taxonomic classifications for tiger beetles in the Southeast with stunning close-up photographs, flight season charts, and distribution maps
- Copyright year: 2021
Messiahs
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice
- Copyright year: 2021
Meaningful Work
Stories
By JoAnna Novak
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Winner of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction
A stunning look at the labor of obsession and the industry of self-destruction
- Copyright year: 2021
By the Time You Read This
Stories
By Yannick Murphy; Foreword by Renee Gladman
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation
- Copyright year: 2021
Orphic Bend
Music and Innovative Poetics
University of Alabama Press
Restages fundamental debates about the relationship between poetry and music
- Copyright year: 2021
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
Corporal Rhetoric
Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era
University of Alabama Press
Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state’s right to regulate women’s bodies and their reproduction
- Copyright year: 2021
Rock Art in an Indigenous Landscape
From Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay
By Edward J. Lenik and Nancy L. Gibbs
University of Alabama Press
Examines a host of rock art sites from Nova Scotia to Maryland
- Copyright year: 2021
Building Back Better in India
Development, NGOs, and Artisanal Fishers after the 2004 Tsunami
By Raja Swamy
University of Alabama Press
Critically examines the role of humanitarian aid and disaster reconstruction
- Copyright year: 2021
Heritage and Hate
Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities
University of Alabama Press
How southern universities continue to wrestle with the words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions
- Copyright year: 2021
Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
University of Alabama Press
Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants
- Copyright year: 2016
Selma
A Bicentennial History
By Alston Fitts
University of Alabama Press
Selma: A Bicentennial History is a sweeping account of the history of the city of Selma from its founding to the present and is a wellspring of new information about every facet of this storied city, including a deeper understanding of the civil rights movement there and its continuing effects to this day.
Pacific Possessions
The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts
University of Alabama Press
Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing
- Copyright year: 2021
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
University of Alabama Press
Explores the practices and cultural institutions that define and sustain African American “southernness,” demonstrating that southern identity is more expansive than traditional narratives that center on white culture
- Copyright year: 2016
Decoding the Digital Church
Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump
University of Alabama Press
A nuanced look at the rhetorical narratives used by conservative Republicans and evangelicals to make both personal and political choices
- Copyright year: 2021
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Small Histories during World War II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology
University of Alabama Press
An uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors
- Copyright year: 2021
Emergency Deep
Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2021
Hiding in Plain Sight
Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
University of Alabama Press
Details how African-descended women’s societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina
The Pinochet Generation
The Chilean Military in the Twentieth Century
By John R. Bawden; Introduction by John R. Bawden
University of Alabama Press
Weaves together the dramatic history of Chile’s complex and fraught relationship to its armed services by thorough analysis of the experiences of General Augusto Pinochet’s generation of soldiers and the beliefs and traditions that motivated their actions
- Copyright year: 2016
Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households
University of Alabama Press
Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theory
- Copyright year: 2021
Real, Recent, or Replica
Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration
Edited by Joanna Ostapkowicz and Jonathan A. Hanna; Foreword by Peter E. Siegel; Epilogue by L. Antonio Curet
University of Alabama Press
Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials
- Copyright year: 2021
Alabama Politics in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
An expansive and accessible primer on Alabama state politics, past and present, which provides an in-depth appreciation and understanding of the twenty-second state’s distinctive political machinery
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
By Mordecai Lee
University of Alabama Press
A masterful account of the founding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM), and his use of LOPM to demonstrate the efficacy of a management-oriented federal civil service over a purely merit-based Civil Service Commission
- Copyright year: 2016
The Glory Road
A Gospel Gypsy Life
University of Alabama Press
Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows
- Copyright year: 2021
Life Out of Balance
Homeostasis and Adaptation in a Darwinian World
By Joel B. Hagen; Foreword by Alexandra Evonne Hui
University of Alabama Press
Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century
- Copyright year: 2021
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Edited by David H. Dye
University of Alabama Press
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee is a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era.
- Copyright year: 2016
Kennesaw
Natural History of a Southern Mountain
University of Alabama Press
The first in-depth ecological treatment of one of the most frequently visited National Battlefield parks in the country
- Copyright year: 2021
Interpreting Sacred Ground
The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields
University of Alabama Press
Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance.
Here I Stand
The Life and Legacy of John Beecher
University of Alabama Press
Biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society
Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology
Formative Cultures Reconsidered
University of Alabama Press
A reconsideration of the seminal projectile point typology
- Copyright year: 2021
Reconstruction Politics in a Deep South State
Alabama, 1865–1874
University of Alabama Press
Recounts in detail the volatile political period in Alabama following the end of the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2021
Virtuous Citizens
Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how contemporary manifestations of civic publics trace directly to the early days of nationhood
- Copyright year: 2021
The Cosmos Revealed
Precontact Mississippian Rock Art at Painted Bluff, Alabama
By Jan F. Simek, Erin E. Dunsmore, Johannes Loubser, and Sierra M. Bow; Foreword by LaDonna Brown; By (photographer) Alan Cressler
University of Alabama Press
The definitive rock art book on Painted Bluff, Alabama
- Copyright year: 2021
Impact Zone
The Battle of the DMZ in Vietnam, 1967–1968
By Jim Brown
University of Alabama Press
A Vietnam War combat memoir from the perspective of an artilleryman
Horses Dream of Money
Stories
By Angela Buck
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2021
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