University Of Florida Press: 327 books
by Daniel L. Schafer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In his famous and influential book Travels, the naturalist William Bartram described the St. Johns riverfront in east Florida as an idyllic, untouched paradise. Bartram’s account was based on a journey he took down the river in 1774. Or was it?
Historians have relied upon the integrity of...
Losing It All to Sprawl
How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Losing It All to Sprawl is the poignant chronicle of award-winning nature writer Bill Belleville and how he came to understand and love his historic Cracker farmhouse and "relic" neighborhood in central Florida, even as it was all wiped out from under him. Belleville's narrative is eloquent,...
by Martin A. Dyckman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Reubin Askew was swept into the governor’s office in 1970 as part of a remarkable wave of progressive politics and legislative reform in Florida. A man of uncompromising principle and independence, he was elected primarily on a platform of tax reform.
In the years that followed, Askew led...
Fringe Florida
Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Most people visit the Sunshine State for its theme parks and beaches, but there is another side to Florida, an underbelly few tourists ever see, a periphery most residents know about but--out of decorum or discomfort--prefer not to discuss. In Fringe Florida, Lynn Waddell explores the frequently exotic,...
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
A Social History of Modern Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Florida is a story of astonishing growth, a state swelling from 500,000 residents at the outset of the 20th century to some 16 million at the end. As recently as mid-century, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Florida was the smallest state in the South. At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest...
Floridian of His Century
The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Six years after his election as a segregationist, Florida governor LeRoy Collins denounced racial discrimination as contrary to “moral, simple justice.” In 1991, the Florida House of Representatives eulogized Collins as the “Floridian of the Twentieth Century,” and today Collins is remembered...
Thunder on the River
The Civil War in Northeast Florida
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, it...
Communists and Perverts under the Palms
The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In 1956, state Senator Charley Johns was appointed the chairman of the newly formed Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, now remembered as the Johns Committee. This group was charged with the task of unearthing communist tendencies, homosexual persuasions, and anything they saw as subversive...
Bitten
My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When Andrew Furman left the rolling hills of Pennsylvania behind for a new job in Florida, he feared the worst. While he’d heard much of the fabled “southern charm,” he wondered what could possibly be charming about fist-sized mosquitoes, oppressive humidity, and ever-lurking alligators.
It...
by Thomas Graham
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“This absorbing tale, documenting the forgotten history of early moviemaking in St. Augustine, is a must-read for film enthusiasts.”—Janelle Blankenship , coeditor of European Visions: Small Cinemas in Transition “Very few people have any idea that St. Augustine played any role in early film...
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In Saving Florida, Leslie Kemp Poole casts new light on the women at the forefront of Florida’s environmental movement. From creating parks to protesting air pollution, fighting dredge-and-fill operations, and exposing the health dangers of pesticides, these women caused unprecedented changes in...
A Most Disorderly Court
Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
In the 1970s, justices on the Florida Supreme Court were popularly elected. But a number of scandals threatened to topple the court until public outrage led to profound reforms and fundamental changes in the way justices were seated.
One justice abruptly retired after being filmed on a high-roller...
Red Pepper and Gorgeous George
Claude Pepper's Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
For nearly a century in Florida and throughout the South, election to the United States Senate virtually guaranteed a lifetime position, especially if you were a Democrat. Certainly no Republican candidate stood a chance in the general election, and it was nearly unthinkable to imagine a serious challenger...
Sunshine Paradise
A History of Florida Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For nearly two hundred years, Floridians have eagerly exploited tourism as the key to economic prosperity. As a result, the state has constantly reshaped and remodeled itself as different types of tourist heavens, and many aspects of its history have become inseparable from the fantastic images created...