University Of Florida Press: 327 books
The Cubalogues
Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting...
The Bottlenose Dolphin
Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years.
After reviewing historical myths and legends of the dolphin back to the ancient Greeks and discussing current human...
Lucky 73
USS Pampanito's Unlikely Rescue of Allied POWs in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2010
Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the submarine earned six battle stars, sank six Japanese ships, damaged four others, and rescued seventy-three British and Australian POWs from the South China Sea. Astonishingly, this rescue happened three days after she sank one of the transport...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
From French intervention in Mexico to British interests in the Caribbean, the impact of the Civil War extended far beyond military campaigns in Virginia, diffusing widely into the Atlantic world. Revised to take into account the outpouring of scholarship on Civil War diplomacy that has appeared since...
Velvet Jihad
Muslim Women's Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational...
Selling Guantánamo
Exploding the Propaganda Surrounding America's Most Notorious Military Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In the aftermath of 9/11, few questioned the political narrative provided by the White House about Guantánamo and the steady stream of prisoners delivered there from half a world away. The Bush administration gave various rationales for the detention of the prisoners captured in the War on Terror:...
Distilling the Influence of Alcohol
Aguardiente in Guatemalan History
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Sugar, coffee, corn, and chocolate have long dominated the study of Central American commerce, and researchers tend to overlook one other equally significant commodity: alcohol. Often illicitly produced and consumed, aguardiente (distilled sugar cane spirits or rum) was central to Guatemalan daily...
by Theresa Willingham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Florida Allergy Handbook combines scientific explanations for what causes allergic reactions with practical advice on how to minimize symptoms along with cautionary tales from some of the most dramatic sufferers. With a direct, accessible style and a systematic approach, Theresa Willingham begins...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.
The Reluctant Republican
My Fight for the Moderate Majority
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Barbara Olschner believes in her party’s founding principles: lower taxes, less regulation, limited government, and individual accountability. But she also believes in governing through compromise, in respectfully listening to opponents’ viewpoints, and in the possibility that a Republican can...
The Spirit and the Shotgun
Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2007
The Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Confronted with violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist terrorists, southern blacks adopted Martin Luther King's philosophy...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Most research into humans' impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature. The contributors to this volume challenge this notion, revealing how such communities shaped their environment—and...
Holding On to the Air
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Suzanne Farrell, world-renowned ballerina, was one of George Balanchine's most celebrated muses and remains a legendary figure in the ballet world. This memoir, first published in 1990 and reissued with a new preface by the author, recounts Farrell's transformation from a young girl in Ohio dreaming...
by James Dempsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The influential literary magazine The Dial is regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement for having published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and editor of The Dial from 1920 to 1926, Scofield Thayer was gatekeeper and guide for the...