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Founded in 1945, the University Press of Florida is the official publisher of the State University System of Florida. UPF has published over 2,500 books since its inception and currently releases approximately 80 new titles each year. Its publishing strengths include archaeology, history, literature, Latin American studies, African American studies, space studies, sustainability, and Florida history and culture. UPF engages educators, students, and discerning readers by producing works of global significance, regional importance, and lasting value.

University Press of Florida also includes the imprint, University of Florida Press.

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Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency

Edited by Ben Lowe
University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Maximum Insight

Selected Columns

University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Key Lime Desserts

University Press of Florida, Seaside Publishing

Gourmets and novices alike will rave over easy-to-prepare recipes such as Key Lime Drop Cookies, Frozen Key Lime Cake Supreme, and Key Lime Rum Sherbet.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Cuba’s Digital Revolution

Citizen Innovation and State Policy

University of Florida Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Afro-Latinx Digital Connections

University of Florida Press

This volume presents examples of how digital technologies are being used by people of African descent in South America and the Caribbean as a means to achieve social justice and to challenge racist images of Afro-descendant peoples.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Archaeology of Island Colonization

Global Approaches to Initial Human Settlement

University Press of Florida

This volume details how new theories and methods have recently advanced the archaeological study of initial human colonization of islands around the world, including in the southwest Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Falls of the Ohio River

Archaeology of Native American Settlement

University of Florida Press

Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, demonstrating how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet

University Press of Florida

This book explores the lives and careers of Todd Bolender and Janet Reed, two unsung trailblazers who were pivotal to the development of ballet in America over the course of the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance

Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa

University of Florida Press

Through a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance, this book explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arará of Cuba, who were brought to the island in the Atlantic slave trade.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Florida Manatee

Biology and Conservation

University Press of Florida

The Florida Manatee is an engaging, accessible introduction to manatee biology from two scientists who have been at the forefront of manatee research for over three decades.

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Unearthing St. Mary's City

Fifty Years of Archaeology at Maryland's First Capital

University Press of Florida

This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary’s City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism

Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground

University of Florida Press

This book presents a temporally and geographically broad yet detailed history of an important form of Native American architecture, the platform mound, revealing unexpected continuities in moundbuilding over many thousands of years.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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