University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books
The Allure of Immortality
An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books About Cults
For five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers, the Koreshans, waited for signs that he was coming back to life. They watched hieroglyphics emerge on...
The Black Seminoles
History of a Freedom-Seeking People
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John Horse, chronicles their heroic struggle for freedom.
Beginning with the early 1800s, small groups of fugitive slaves living in Florida joined the Seminole Indians (an association that thrived for...
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting...
by Tom Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last true frontiers in the nation--the Florida Everglades.
In Everglades Patrol, Shirley shares the stories from his beat--an ecosystem larger than the...
Category 5
The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In the midst of the Great Depression, a furious storm struck the Florida Keys with devastating force. With winds estimated at over 225 miles per hour, it was the first recorded Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States.
Striking at a time before storms were named, the catastrophic...
Long Key
Flaglers Island Getaway for the Rich and Famous
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
With a modest two-story hotel and various small cottages, Long Key Fishing Camp offered a dramatic departure from the usual opulence of Henry Flagler’s hotels that dotted the east coast of Florida. The final resort opened during his lifetime, Long Key lacked palatial structures with manicured grounds,...
Manatee Insanity
Inside the War over Florida's Most Famous Endangered Species
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2010
Loveable or loathed? Poster child for conservation efforts or impediment to development? Nuisance or in need of protection? For the past two decades, the quiet manatee has been a flash point of frequent environmental debates.
Included on the very first endangered species list issued in 1967,...
Center of Dreams
Building a World-Class Performing Arts Complex in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Discover how one spectacular building project revolutionized Miami, how one man's moxie helped turn a fractious tropical city into a cultural capital of the Americas. In Center of Dreams, New York Times bestselling author Les Standiford tells the inspiring story of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the...
Shaw and Feminisms
On Stage and Off
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
“A worthy successor to Fabian Feminist. Shaw’s influence on the self-image and public standing of women has been immense, both in his time and in our own, yet Shaw has also been widely and sometimes appallingly misunderstood. This book should help clarify the complexities of the issue and provoke...
Gladesmen
Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
Few people today can claim a living memory of Florida's frontier Everglades. Glen Simmons, who has hunted alligators, camped on hammock-covered islands, and poled his skiff through the mangrove swamps of the glades since the 1920s, is one who can. Together with Laura Ogden, he tells the story of backcountry...
by Thomas Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Arguably no man did more to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America’s elite.
Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest...
The Peace of Blue
Water Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The Earth’s surface is mostly oceans, the human body is approximately 60% water, and the human imagination has been captivated by this life-giving, life-sustaining liquid from time immemorial.
According to Carl Hiaasen, Bill Belleville “writes gorgeously and straight from the heart. In...
Sandspurs
Notes from a Coastal Columnist
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2008
Far from the myth of surf, sand, and orange juice, Mark Lane's snapshots of life in the Sunshine State are more likely to feature gargantuan insects than bikini-clad coeds.
Lane has spent nearly thirty years as a reporter and writer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Often compared to Carl...
Fifty Years of Justice
A History of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The verdicts have made headlines, but little is known about the inner workings of the court in which they were delivered. In Fifty Years of Justice, James Denham presents the fascinating history of the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida from its founding in 1962 to the present. Readers will discover...