University Of Florida Press: 327 books
Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Thomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, "the most valuable of my possessions." For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyday pressures of his iconic estate, Monticello.
Jefferson's Poplar Forest uses the...
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
He walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs--more than any other human. He served with NASA for more than four decades. His peers called him the "astronaut's astronaut."
Enthusiasts of space exploration have long waited for John Young to tell the...
Cuban Revelations
Behind the Scenes in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in...
Mission Control
Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on years--if not decades--of work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of...
The Southern Mind Under Union Rule
The Diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862-1865
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
James Rumley was nearly fifty years old when the Civil War reached the remote outer banks community of Beaufort, North Carolina. Comfortably employed as clerk of the Superior Court of Carteret County, he could only watch as a Union fleet commanded by General Ambrose Burnside snaked its way up the...
Kennedy v. Nixon
The Presidential Election of 1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2010
Kennedy v. Nixon is a book for everyone who thinks they know what happened in the pivotal election year of 1960. For fifty years we've accepted Theodore White's premise (from The Making of the President, 1960) that Kennedy ran a brilliant campaign while Nixon committed blunder after blunder.
But...
Souvenirs of the Old South
Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
"Written in a clear, accessible, and lively style, Souvenirs of the Old South will be the foundational work for subsequent scholars and readers interested in tourism in the New South."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory "This study of southern...
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...