University Of Florida Press: 327 books
by Thomas F. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
“Traces the ways that Cuban poets dealt with issues of national identity, reflected in their views of Afrocubanismo, often in response to historical changes in public and official opinions on the most visual manifestation of Afro-Cuban culture: carnival.”—Choice “Uncovers a wealth of literary...
Unlikely Dissenters
White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
"An eye-opening account of southern white women who worked to challenge racial segregation. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "Brings to life a small but important group of women who worked hard to change the South. . . . It will help to more fully explicate the motivation and experiences...
Willy Ley
Prophet of the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
"Beautifully written. Reveals the vicissitudes of an extraordinarily interesting life."--Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War "Willy Ley has been a mystery among spaceflight historians for many years. His role as science writer, advocate, and popularizer...
Links
My Family in American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a sixty-nine volume edition of...
The Rise and Fall of Dodgertown
60 Years of Baseball in Vero Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2008
Ironically, the last year of Dodgertown will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the team's relationship with Vero Beach, a sleepy beach town a couple of hours north of Miami. Since 1948, when Branch Rickey first brought his team to a former naval air station for training (the players slept in barracks),...
The Final Mission
Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
The world will always remember Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for their first steps on the moon, yet few today hold in respect the sites that made these and other astronauts' journeys possible. Across the American landscape and on the lunar surface, many facilities and landing sites linked to the...
Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold
Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
South Carolina Historical Society George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award "A solid contribution."--Journal of American History "An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina lowcountry."--Business History Review "Places the rise...
Voyages, the Age of Sail
Documents in American Maritime History, Volume I, 1492-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2009
Intended as a text for college and advanced high school students, Voyages covers the entirety of the American maritime experience, from the discovery of the continent to the present. Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, the selections chosen for this anthology of...
A New Orleans Voudou Priestess
The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2007
Against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Orleans, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau disentangles the complex threads of the legend surrounding the famous Voudou priestess. According to mysterious, oft-told tales, Laveau was an extraordinary...
Site Dance
Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In recent years, site-specific dance has grown in popularity. In the wake of groundbreaking work by choreographers who left traditional performance spaces for other venues, more and more performances are cropping up on skyscrapers, in alleyways, on trains, on the decks of aircraft carriers, and in...
Sleigh Rides, Jingle Bells, and Silent Nights
A Cultural History of American Christmas Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
When Bing Crosby’s "White Christmas" debuted in 1942, no one imagined that a holiday song would top the charts year after year. One of the best-selling singles ever released, it remains on rotation at tree lighting ceremonies across the country, in crowded shopping malls on Black Friday,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
"An extensive overview of the drug trade in the Americas and its impact on politics, economics, and society throughout the region. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "A first-rate update on the state of the long-fought hemispheric 'war on drugs.' It is particularly timely, as the perception...
Skyway
The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship’s path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge--two ribbons of concrete, steel, and asphalt that crossed fifteen miles of open bay. Suddenly, a violent weather...
by Thaddeus D. Novak
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of an enemy ship took place. For six months in 1942 and against standing orders of the time, Thaddeus Nowakowski (now Novak) kept a personal diary of his service on patrol in...