University Press Of Florida imprint: 241 books
Rebel on Pointe
A Memoir of Ballet and Broadway
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Short, plump, pigeon-toed, and never good enough for mom, Lee Wilson dared to dream she could grow up to be a star. In this uplifting memoir, Wilson describes how she grand jetéd from the stifling suburbia of the 1950s, a world of rigid gender roles, to the only domain where women and men were equally...
by Carolyn Merritt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
The Argentine tango is one of the world’s best-known partner dances. Though tango is much admired and discussed, very little has been written on its ongoing evolution. In this innovative work, Carolyn Merritt surveys tango history while focusing on the most recent iteration of the dance, tango Nuevo,...
Slave Breeding
Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated...
Known for My Work
African American Ethics from Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
“Demonstrates that the ‘emancipation generation’ bequeathed values, ethical frameworks, and identities to multiple ensuing generations, shaping religious, educational, and cultural institutions as well as labor and political organizations.”—Peter Rachleff, editor of Starving Amidst Too Much...
In Katrina's Wake
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2010
Of all the Homeland Security agencies operating in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, no agency performed its duties with the same level of diligence and heroism as did the U.S. Coast Guard. Tirelessly, Coasties in helicopters and small boats pulled survivors from...
The Generalship of Muhammad
Battles and Campaigns of the Prophet of Allah
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
There are many biographies of the Prophet, and they tend to fall into three categories: pious works that emphasize the virtues of the early Islamic community, general works for non-Muslim or non-specialist readers, and source-critical works that grapple with historiographical problems inherent in...
Wildman of Rhythm
The Life and Music of Benny Moré
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Benny More (1919-1963) was one of the giants at the center of the golden age of Cuban music. Arguably the greatest singer ever to come from the island, his name is still spoken with reverence and nostalgia by Cubans and Cuban exiles alike.
Unable to read music, he nevertheless wrote more than...
by Thomas F. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
“Traces the ways that Cuban poets dealt with issues of national identity, reflected in their views of Afrocubanismo, often in response to historical changes in public and official opinions on the most visual manifestation of Afro-Cuban culture: carnival.”—Choice “Uncovers a wealth of literary...
Unlikely Dissenters
White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
"An eye-opening account of southern white women who worked to challenge racial segregation. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "Brings to life a small but important group of women who worked hard to change the South. . . . It will help to more fully explicate the motivation and experiences...
Willy Ley
Prophet of the Space Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
"Beautifully written. Reveals the vicissitudes of an extraordinarily interesting life."--Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War "Willy Ley has been a mystery among spaceflight historians for many years. His role as science writer, advocate, and popularizer...
Links
My Family in American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a sixty-nine volume edition of...
The Rise and Fall of Dodgertown
60 Years of Baseball in Vero Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2008
Ironically, the last year of Dodgertown will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the team's relationship with Vero Beach, a sleepy beach town a couple of hours north of Miami. Since 1948, when Branch Rickey first brought his team to a former naval air station for training (the players slept in barracks),...
The Final Mission
Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
The world will always remember Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for their first steps on the moon, yet few today hold in respect the sites that made these and other astronauts' journeys possible. Across the American landscape and on the lunar surface, many facilities and landing sites linked to the...
Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold
Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
South Carolina Historical Society George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award "A solid contribution."--Journal of American History "An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina lowcountry."--Business History Review "Places the rise...