University Of Florida Press: 327 books
Winning While Losing
Civil Rights, The Conservative Movement and the Presidency from Nixon to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
"Explor[es] the paradoxical nature of racial politics in the post–civil rights period. . . . Does us the service of detailing how different presidential administrations handled civil rights, complicating our understanding of the major themes that defined the era."--American Historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
"A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity "Gives us an entirely different picture of Muslims in the Americas than can be found in the established literature....
The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid
Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape...
Slavery behind the Wall
An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
"A significant contribution in Caribbean archaeology. Singleton weaves archaeological and documentary evidence into a compelling narrative of the lives of the enslaved at Santa Ana de Biajacas."--Patricia Samford, author of Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia...
by Steven C Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.
As a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and wife of an Anglican clergyman, Mary was one of a small number of "mixed blood" Indians to achieve a position...
by H.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"Superb. Vetter's incisive introduction offers one of the first approaches to theorizing women’s late modernist literary production as advancing specifically hybrid works located at the juncture of personal, national, and nationalist concerns."--Cynthia Hogue, coeditor of The Sword Went...
The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane
The Robert Porter Allen Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Millions of people know a little bit about efforts to save the whooping crane, thanks to the movie Fly Away Home and annual news stories about ultralight planes leading migratory flocks. But few realize that in the spring of 1941, the population of these magnificent birds--pure white with black wingtips,...
Charleston
An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most storied cities of the American South. Well known for its historic buildings and landscape, its thriving maritime culture, and its role in the beginning of the American Civil War, many consider it the birthplace of historic preservation. In Charleston,...
Merchant Mariners at War
An Oral History of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2008
Thousands of cargo ships sailed in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of World War II manned by young men who braved blockades, torpedoes, and bombings to deliver vital supplies to the Allied forces and make victory possible. These mariners have received little if any credit; they are the forgotten...
by M. Barron Stofik
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
In Saving South Beach, historic preservation clashes with development as each side vies for control of South Beach. A spectrum of characters are present, from Barbara Baer Capitman, the ailing middle-aged widow who became an evangelist for the Miami Beach Art Deco district, to Abe Resnick, the millionaire...
Entanglements
The Intertwined Fates of Whales and Fishermen
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2007
Entanglements explores the clash of cultures and personalities among fishermen, scientists, and whale advocates struggling to save both the endangered North Atlantic right whale and the livelihoods of thousands of Atlantic coastal families. By most counts, about 300 of these whales remain in the North...
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis
Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
“Compelling new evidence, careful documentation, and an artfully woven narrative make The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis a path-breaking book for sociocultural scholars as well as for general readers interested in the politics of identity, ethnicity, gender, and the colonial and U.S. Western history.”—Transforming...
Who Owns Haiti?
People, Power, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
"A timely collection of articles by some of the leading and emerging scholars and specialists on Haiti, offering a wide range of critical perspectives on the question and meaning of sovereignty in Haiti."--Alex Dupuy, coauthor of The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International...
Girls of the Factory
A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In Morocco today, the idea of female laborers is generally frowned upon. Yet despite this, many women are beginning to find work in factories.
Laetitia Cairoli spent a year in the ancient city of Fes; Girls of the Factory tells the story of what life is like for working women. Forced to find...