University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books
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...
by Agata Szczeszak-Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
"Original and significant. This book shows us how Conrad and Joyce manipulate representations of imperialist belief in the sacred to indict Western culture for its racist colonization. This striking reading of modernism emphasizes Conrad's and Joyce's use of chaos in general and pilgrimage in...
Impossible Returns
Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical...
Masculinity after Trujillo
The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature."--Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo "The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship...
Contrary Destinies
A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and political scientists interested in international relations between the United States and other countries in the region."--Leslie G. Desmangles, author of...
From Douglass to Duvalier
U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 18701964
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2010
Haiti has long been both a source of immense pride--because of the Haitian Revolution--and of profound disappointment--because of the unshakable realities of poverty, political instability, and violence--to the black diasporic imagination. Charting the long history of these multiple meanings is the...