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On a Rising Swell

Surf Stories from Florida's Space Coast

University Press of Florida
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Of Slash Pines and Manatees

A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness

University Press of Florida

Through stories of nature near at hand, a South Florida writer offers a unique view of humans and the environment amid development and change.

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Welcome to Florida

True Tales from America's Most Interesting State

University Press of Florida

A much-loved Florida writer chronicles the quirky, touching, and thought-provoking stories of the Sunshine State today.

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Moving through Life

Essential Lessons of Dance

University Press of Florida
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Futures of Black Power

Reimagining the Black Past

University Press of Florida

This book uncovers and centers unexpected sites of Black Power activism within the Black freedom struggle. In essays interspersed with oral history interviews, leading scholars look at how we study the past and suggest new ways historians can recognize Black Power and Black radicalism in the future.

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Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century

The Articulate Body

University Press of Florida

This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other’s development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion.

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Guilt and Finnegans Wake

From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body

University Press of Florida

Approaching James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce’s craft.

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The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare

University Press of Florida

In this book, Meredith Reifschneider synthesizes archaeological research on healthcare and medicine to show how practices in the United States have evolved since the nineteenth century, demonstrating that historical archaeology can provide important insights into healthcare and modes of self-care in the past.

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Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Volume 2

University Press of Florida

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 2 discusses military figures, artists, modern civil rights activists, and scholars, and celebrates the rise of recent scholarship on Black Greek-letter organizations.

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Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Volume 1

University Press of Florida

In two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together essays on 21 accomplished and influential members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., demonstrating the enormous impact of the fraternity. Volume 1 tells the story of the organization’s founding and spotlights scientists, civil rights lawyers, athletes, and musicians.

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Black Prison Intellectuals

Writings from the Long Nineteenth Century

University Press of Florida

Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black prison writing from 1795 to 1901.

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The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila

A Hybrid City in Global History

University Press of Florida

This book uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world.

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The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest

University Press of Florida

In this book, Douglas Wilson uses historical documents, Indigenous oral traditions, and the material record to provide a comprehensive overview of the historical archaeology of the Pacific Northwest region from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries.

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More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers

Continuing the Struggle

University Press of Florida

In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United States South, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia to Florida.

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Monuments and Memory

Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration

University Press of Florida

This volume examines many different public monuments, exploring the cultural factors behind their creation, their messages and evolving meanings, and the role of such markers in conveying the memory of history to future generations.

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