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.
The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology
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
James Monroe
A Republican Champion
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
Illustrated Plants of Florida and the Coastal Plain
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
The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida
Volume I: Assimilation
- Copyright year: 2020
The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida
Volume II: Resistance and Destruction
- Copyright year: 2020
The Valkyries’ Loom
The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
- Copyright year: 2020
Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets
Exploring the Early Choreography of a Master
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
Tampa
Impressions of an Emigrant
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
Ordinary Masochisms
Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction
- Copyright year: 2020
Leprosy
Past and Present
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
A History of the Kennedy Space Center
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