University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books

by David E Long, Sebastian Maisel
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2010

This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new chapters on tradition and modernity and on Islam and society. It features extensive analysis of the substantial political, economic, and social changes that have taken place in the past ten years, including 9/11, the U.S. war on terror, the Saudi war on terror, oil pricing, and technological advancements.

Yo Soy Negro

Blackness in Peru

by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Yo Soy Negro is the first book in English--in fact, the first book in any language in more than two decades--to address what it means to be black in Peru. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than eighty interviews with Peruvians of African descent, this groundbreaking...

Bootstrap Geologist

My Life in Science

by Gene Shinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

In Bootstrap Geologist Shinn enthusiastically shares the highs and lows of his remarkable life. Taking readers around the globe as well as below the ocean, he recounts the painstaking process of data gathering that can lead to paradigm-breaking discoveries. He emphasizes the importance of field science...

Dixie's Daughters

The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture

by Karen L. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019

Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South--all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate...

Destination Dixie

Tourism and Southern History

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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018

Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to “See Rock City” or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors—and defines itself—yet...

Spies and Shuttles

NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA

by James E. David
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

In this real life spy saga, James E. David reveals the extensive and largely hidden interactions between NASA and U.S. defense and intelligence departments. The story begins with the establishment of NASA in 1958 and follows the agency through its growth, not only in scope but also in complexity. In...
by Jay A. Gertzman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary "pirate" for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not...

Derek Walcott

Politics and Poetics

by Paula Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017

?An important contribution to the study of Walcott?s poetry and plays.??Modernism/modernity ?Walcott, [Burnett] says, has assimilated western tradition to his own project, using it to create a new plural world of open-ended possibilities. . . . A book that should be of interest to any student of Walcott?s...

Posting It

The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

by Catherine J Golden
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2009

Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today. Until Queen Victoria instituted the...

Fishing for Spotted Seatrout

From the Carolinas to Texas

by Jan S. Maizler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

Known as “everyman’s fish,” the spotted seatrout is one of the top ten species for recreational fishing in the United States. In Fishing for Spotted Seatrout, Jan Maizler, a world-renowned light tackle expert, shares more than 30 years’ experience and innovative tactics for catching...

The Cubalogues

Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana

by Todd Tietchen
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

by John E. Reynolds, III, Randall S. Wells
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

by Aldona Sendzikas
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

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...
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