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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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The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology

University of Florida Press

This volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America’s deep past, representing a profound shift in thinking about precolonial and colonial history and helping to erase the false divide between ancient and contemporary America.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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James Monroe

A Republican Champion

University Press of Florida

Despite serving his country for 50 years and being among the most qualified men to hold the office of president, James Monroe is an oft-forgotten Founding Father. In this book, Brook Poston reveals how Monroe attempted to craft a legacy for himself as a champion of American republicanism.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Illustrated Plants of Florida and the Coastal Plain

University Press of Florida

Updated with over 200 new illustrations as well as current plant names and taxonomies, this volume is an indispensable identification guide to nearly 1,400 species of plants, both common and rare, found in Florida and neighboring coastal states.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida

Volume I: Assimilation

University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida

Volume II: Resistance and Destruction

University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Bay of Pigs

An Oral History of Brigade 2506

University Press of Florida
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The Valkyries’ Loom

The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic

University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets

Exploring the Early Choreography of a Master

University Press of Florida

In the first book to focus exclusively on George Balanchine’s early Russian ballets, most of which have been lost to history, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group ballet, Funeral March.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Tampa

Impressions of an Emigrant

By Wenceslao Gálvez y Delmonte; Translated by Noel M. Smith; Introduction and notes by Noel M. Smith and Andrew T. Huse
University Press of Florida

Translated into English with extensive notes and a wealth of supplementary material, this narrative of a nineteenth-century Cuban émigré brings to life the early Cuban exile communities in Tampa.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Ordinary Masochisms

Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction

University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Leprosy

Past and Present

University of Florida Press

Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic 7,000-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many longstanding myths about the disease.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A History of the Kennedy Space Center

University Press of Florida

This inspirational history of KSC explores man’s attempts to conquer the final frontier from Von Braun to the Space Station. With 97 b/w illustrations.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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