University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books

by George F. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Presenting a stunning array of beauty and biodiversity, the coral reefs of Florida and the Caribbean are part playground, part research lab for the thousands of tourists, divers, and marine scientists who visit them every year. Documenting the wide array of corals at home in the warm waters of the...

Drying Up

The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida

by John M. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019

America’s wettest state is running out of water. Florida—with its swamps, lakes, extensive coastlines, and legions of life-giving springs—faces a drinking water crisis. Drying Up is a wake-up call and a hard look at what the future holds for those who call Florida home. Journalist and educator...
by Daniel L. Schafer
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

by Bill Belleville
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

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

by Lynn Waddell
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

by Gary R Mormino
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

by Martin A. Dyckman
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

by Daniel L Schafer
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

by Stacy Braukman
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

by Andrew Furman
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

“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

by Leslie Kemp Poole
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

by Martin A. Dyckman
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...
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