University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books
Journeys Through Paradise
Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
"This book is for those inhabited by the same desires that drove the early naturalists afield, who yearn to know wilder territory. We read it voraciously, as if in the understanding of how they loved we might also begin to do so, as if in the reliving of their lives we might recapture some vanishing...
by Charley Wells
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Hanging chads. Butterfly ballots. Unruly demonstrations across the country. A state capital occupied by the national press corps. For thirty-six excruciating days in late 2000, a nation held its breath while seven men held in their hands the fate of the presidential election in Florida. The events...
Backcountry Lawman
True Stories from a Florida Game Warden
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With thirty years of backcountry patrol experience in Florida, Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend, including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens.
Going Ape
Florida's Battles over Evolution in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Before William Jennings Bryan successfully prosecuted John Scopes in the infamous “Scopes Monkey Trial,” he was a prominent antievolution agitator in Florida.
In Going Ape, Brandon Haught tells the riveting story of how the war over teaching evolution began and unfolded in Florida, one...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
“This is a remarkable collection of essays. Citizenship clearly forms the backbone for these investigations but the range of the contributors’ backgrounds (in terms of disciplinary training) and the approaches they take to the question makes this collection both broad and deep. As it turns out,...
High Seas Wranglers
The Lives of Atlantic Fishing Captains
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Raw, gritty, rich, and captivating, the stories in this book will astonish you. High Seas Wranglers presents real scenes from the lives of some of Florida's best-known commercial and charter fishing captains.
Through Terry Howard's interviews, Captains Tristram Colket, A. J. Brown, Ray Perez,...
Tabloid Valley
Supermarket News and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2009
With sensational headlines and scandalous photos, supermarket tabloids dish out the dirt on everyone and everything from space aliens and Bat Boy to Elvis and Britney. Although they were once the pariah of traditional journalism, tabloids have gained credibility in recent years and today their lurid...
by Frank Laumer
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 1995
Dade's Battle in December 1835 precipitated the Second Seminole War. It was the first American war fought over the issue of slavery, Frank Laumer writes, and it occurred principally because of white determination to protect the institution.
In their search for runaway slaves, white citizens...
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award
In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer draws on new discoveries to prove true the longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in...
From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans
Florida and Its Politics since 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Likely to raise hackles among Democrats and Republicans alike, this dynamic history of modern Florida argues that the Sunshine State has become the political and demographic future of the nation. David Colburn reveals how Florida gradually abandoned the traditions of race and personality that linked...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
“Excellent.”—Studies: An Irish Quarterly “A handy anthology of key articles, twelve in all, excavated from the trove of Joyce interpretation, analysis and scholarship. . . . Each piece marks a moment of departure subsequent studies have built on, extended, or reacted against, but which nonetheless...
State of Defiance
Challenging the Johns Committee's Assault on Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The Johns Committee, a product of the red scare in Florida, grabbed headlines and destroyed lives. Its goal was to halt integration by destroying the NAACP in Florida and smearing integrationists. Citizens were subpoenaed under charges of communist tendencies, and later for homosexual or subversive behavior.
Before the Pioneers
Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“In this riveting account, Frank moves beyond stories of recent development to uncover the deep history of a place profoundly shaped by mound-builders, slaves, raiders, and traders. This book will change the way you think about Florida history.”—Christina Snyder, author of Slavery in Indian...
Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor. Unfortunately, his many musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by a morbid fascination with his drug overdose in the Joshua...