University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books
In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"Set in the Caribbean, Panama, the U.S., and England, [Walrond’s] fiction captures the experiences of working-class peoples, often migrants, as they confront the depredations of colonialism, racial prejudice, and economic exploitation. . . . A significant and fascinating collection."--African...
The Challenge of Blackness
The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedom Struggle organizations to emerge in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A think tank based in Atlanta, the IBW sought to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
"This groundbreaking study examines the connection between what are arguably the two most distinguishing phenomena of the modern world: the unprecedented surges in global mobility and in the creation of politically bounded spaces and identities."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers...
by Jennifer C. Kronenberg, Carlos M. Guerra
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
"An insightful read from one of the ballet world’s most beloved married couples!"--Melinda Roy, former principal dancer, New York City Ballet "Wonderfully complete and instructive, written by two artists who have lived what they write about and are sharing their life experience from...
by Gail Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"Saunders resoundingly affirms the relevance of island history. Scholars will appreciate the detail and insights."--Choice "Deftly unravels the complex historical interrelationships of race, color, class, economics, and environment in the Colonial Bahamas. An invaluable study for scholars...
Uncommonly Savage
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
“Truly impressive. Travels uncharted terrain, moving deftly through a vast scholarship in two languages. The research is sound, the prose crisp and accessible, and the subject unquestionably important.”—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
“Illuminates...
Voyages, the Age of Engines
Documents in American Maritime History, Volume II, 1865-Present
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...
by Ted Spitzmiller
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
“A very competent, complete history of manned spacecraft. . . . A strongly recommended resource.”—Choice "A fascinating human saga of dedication, competition, sacrifice, and achievement."--Dave Finley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory "An ambitious and thorough history, extending...
Serials to Graphic Novels
The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century. While existing scholarship on Victorian illustrators largely centers on the realist artists of the "Sixties," this volume examines the entire lifetime of the Victorian illustrated...
Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy
From American Slave to Arctic Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden
"This is a book of adventure that tells how one man shaped the Alaskan frontier at a crucial time in American history."--Vincent William Patton, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard,...
by Josefa Gonzalez-Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Culinary wizard and cafe owner Josefa Gonzalez-Hastings offers this extravagance of Cuban cooking as a celebration of her heritage. Many of the recipes were passed down to her from her mother and aunts; others are "nuevo Latino cuisine"--a fusion of traditional Cuban foods with modern dishes....
by Cóilín Owens
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
"An eminently insightful and informative study of a single story, as well as a profound exploration of Joyce's position within his own historical moment and its most urgent philosophical and religious questions."--James Joyce Quarterly "One of the more intellectually capacious, wide-ranging...
Irish Cosmopolitanism
Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Donald J. Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book "Pearson is convincing in arguing that Irish writers often straddle the space between national identity and a sense of belonging to a larger, more cosmopolitan environment."--Choice "Demonstrat[es]. . .just what it is that makes...
In Defiance of Boundaries
Anarchism in Latin American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Choice Outstanding Academic Title "State-of-the-art yet accessible analyses that significantly expand understanding of the role of anarchism in Latin America. . . . Will long be a standard text that provides [an] important reference for scholars and students of labor and social movement history."--Choice...