University Press Of Florida imprint: 241 books
Bootstrap Geologist
My Life in Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In Bootstrap Geologist Shinn enthusiastically shares the highs and lows of his remarkable life. Taking readers around the globe as well as below the ocean, he recounts the painstaking process of data gathering that can lead to paradigm-breaking discoveries. He emphasizes the importance of field science...
Dixie's Daughters
The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South--all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate...
Destination Dixie
Tourism and Southern History
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to “See Rock City” or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors—and defines itself—yet...
Spies and Shuttles
NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
In this real life spy saga, James E. David reveals the extensive and largely hidden interactions between NASA and U.S. defense and intelligence departments. The story begins with the establishment of NASA in 1958 and follows the agency through its growth, not only in scope but also in complexity.
In...
by Jay A. Gertzman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary "pirate" for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not...
Derek Walcott
Politics and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
?An important contribution to the study of Walcott?s poetry and plays.??Modernism/modernity ?Walcott, [Burnett] says, has assimilated western tradition to his own project, using it to create a new plural world of open-ended possibilities. . . . A book that should be of interest to any student of Walcott?s...
Posting It
The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2009
Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today.
Until Queen Victoria instituted the...
Fishing for Spotted Seatrout
From the Carolinas to Texas
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Known as “everyman’s fish,” the spotted seatrout is one of the top ten species for recreational fishing in the United States.
In Fishing for Spotted Seatrout, Jan Maizler, a world-renowned light tackle expert, shares more than 30 years’ experience and innovative tactics for catching...
The Cubalogues
Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting...
The Bottlenose Dolphin
Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years.
After reviewing historical myths and legends of the dolphin back to the ancient Greeks and discussing current human...
Lucky 73
USS Pampanito's Unlikely Rescue of Allied POWs in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2010
Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the submarine earned six battle stars, sank six Japanese ships, damaged four others, and rescued seventy-three British and Australian POWs from the South China Sea. Astonishingly, this rescue happened three days after she sank one of the transport...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
From French intervention in Mexico to British interests in the Caribbean, the impact of the Civil War extended far beyond military campaigns in Virginia, diffusing widely into the Atlantic world. Revised to take into account the outpouring of scholarship on Civil War diplomacy that has appeared since...
Velvet Jihad
Muslim Women's Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational...
Selling Guantánamo
Exploding the Propaganda Surrounding America's Most Notorious Military Prison
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In the aftermath of 9/11, few questioned the political narrative provided by the White House about Guantánamo and the steady stream of prisoners delivered there from half a world away. The Bush administration gave various rationales for the detention of the prisoners captured in the War on Terror:...