University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books
Red Pepper and Gorgeous George
Claude Pepper's Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2011
For nearly a century in Florida and throughout the South, election to the United States Senate virtually guaranteed a lifetime position, especially if you were a Democrat. Certainly no Republican candidate stood a chance in the general election, and it was nearly unthinkable to imagine a serious challenger...
Sunshine Paradise
A History of Florida Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
For nearly two hundred years, Floridians have eagerly exploited tourism as the key to economic prosperity. As a result, the state has constantly reshaped and remodeled itself as different types of tourist heavens, and many aspects of its history have become inseparable from the fantastic images created...
Music Everywhere
The Rock and Roll Roots of a Southern Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
“A highly entertaining, well-written look at a city that played a major role in the history of rock and roll music. Kudos to Marty Jourard on a book of historical importance.”—Kudzoo Magazine “Jourard tells the story so that you feel you are there in the humid clubs watching history unfold...
Florida
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
As if Ponce de León, who happened on the peninsula in 1513, returned today to demand a quick reckoning ("Tell me what happened after I was there, but leave out the boring parts!"), Michael Gannon recounts the longest recorded history of any state in the nation in twenty-seven brisk, fully...
Conservative Hurricane
How Jeb Bush Remade Florida
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Against the backdrop of the Tea Party–dominated GOP, former Florida governor Jeb Bush may appear comparatively moderate, but his record tells a different story. In Conservative Hurricane, Matthew Corrigan probes beyond the mild veneer, the sound bites, and the photo ops to examine the real evidence...
A Pioneer Son at Sea
Fishing Tales of Old Florida
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Long before tourism dominated Florida’s coastline, the state was home to dozens of commercial fisheries and ethnically diverse communities of rugged individuals who made their living from the sea.
In A Pioneer Son at Sea, Gilbert Voss, a celebrated marine biologist, recounts his early days...
by John Bartram, William Bartram
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
“The editors skillfully interpret the geography and natural history, and provide an extensive list of the plants and animals the Bartrams encountered. This work will appeal to naturalists and those interested in early American studies in natural history.”—Choice "Bringing together descriptions...
The Purposes of the University
Selected Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Offering a rare vantage point on Florida’s most prominent public research university during a pivotal decade, The Purposes of the University challenges the reader to reexamine the roles and responsibilities of today’s state universities.
Bad Guys, Bullets, and Boat Chases
True Stories of Florida Game Wardens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
“Stories are brimming with confrontations and high-stakes action. . . . Lee’s observations radiate authenticity and he effectively conveys his sophisticated knowledge base about the law, the Everglades and the criminal mind and the skill sets of conservation professionals. Once you get into this...
George Merrick, Son of the South Wind
Visionary Creator of Coral Gables
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The story of developers selling off the Sunshine State is as old as the first railroad tracks laid across the peninsula. But seldom do we hear about the men who actually built a better Florida. In George Merrick, Son of the South Wind, South Florida historian Arva Moore Parks recounts George Merrick's...
Alligators in B-Flat
Improbable Tales from the Files of Real Florida
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
With a keen eye for detail and a lyrical style, Jeff Klinkenberg sets his sights on the contradictions that make up the Sunshine State. No one else would think to engage a professional symphony orchestra tuba player to find out whether bull gators will thunderously bellow back at a low B-flat during...
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . [and] how one generation of black women benefited from the work and sacrifices of the prior generation."--Adah L. Ward Randolph, Ohio University "Keen historical and theoretical observation...
The First Hollywood
Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2008
Jacksonville, Florida, was the king of the infant film industry. Devastated by fire in 1901, rebuilt in a wide variety of architectural styles, sharing the same geographic and meteorological DNA as southern California, the city was an ideal location for northern film production companies looking to...
Salvaging the Real Florida
Lost and Found in the State of Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2011
Modern life has a tendency to trap people in cubicles, cars, and cookie-cutter suburbs. Thankfully, someone comes along now and then to remind us of the beauty that presents itself when we turn off the information feeds and turn away from the daily grind.
Bill Belleville’s enchanting Salvaging...