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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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Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold

Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina

University Press of Florida
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Creole Clay

Heritage Ceramics in the Contemporary Caribbean

University Press of Florida
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War Owl Falling

Innovation, Creativity, and Culture Change in Ancient Maya Society

University Press of Florida

Drawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, this book shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies

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Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space

The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery

University of Florida Press

Established by a Black community in the eighteenth century during British colonization of the Bahamas, the Northern Burial Ground of St. Matthew’s Parish was an important expression of the group’s African cultural identity. Analyzing the landscape and artifacts found at the site, Grace Turner shows how the community used this separate space to maintain a sense of social belonging despite the power of white planters and the colonial government. 

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Who Owns Haiti?

People, Power, and Sovereignty

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Machaut's Legacy

The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond

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In Defiance of Boundaries

Anarchism in Latin American History

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Reading the Bones

Activity, Biology, and Culture

University Press of Florida
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