Motion Picture Paradise
A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry
This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state’s importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the peninsula.
Florida Trail Hikes
Top Scenic Destinations on Florida's National Scenic Trail
A guide to the best scenic day hikes and overnight trips along the state-spanning Florida Trail, this book helps readers of all backgrounds and experience levels plan an adventure exploring natural Florida.
Sherds of History
Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe
This book examines ceramic artifacts from the island of Guadeloupe to reveal information about daily life in the French colonial Caribbean.
An Introduction to Jean Bodel
In this book, Lynn Ramey explores the life and works of Jean Bodel, a twelfth-century French poet, playwright, and epic writer, providing translations and summaries of works never published before in English while delving into Bodel’s historical and cultural context.
Selling Vero Beach
Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole
This book explores how settlers from northern states created myths about the Indian River area on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, importing ideas about the region’s Indigenous peoples and rewriting its history to market the land to investors and tourists.
Decoding the Codex Borgia
Visual Symbols of Time and Space in Ancient Mexico
This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manuscript’s intricate and colorful imagery conveys complex ideas related to Mesoamerican myths and religion.
Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies
An Archaeology of Human Resilience
This volume explores the impacts humans have made on island and coastal ecosystems and the ways these environments have adapted to anthropogenic changes over the course of millennia.
From Saloons to Steak Houses
A History of Tampa
This book takes readers on a journey into Tampa’s historic bars, theaters, gambling halls, soup kitchens, clubs, and restaurants, telling the story of the city’s past through these fascinating social spaces—many of which can’t be found in official histories.
Indigenizing Archaeology
Putting Theory into Practice
This book highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm of archaeological study done with, by, and for members of Native-descendant communities.
El Perú-Waka’
New Archaeological Perspectives on the Kingdom of the Centipede
Presenting the most current research on the Maya rainforest city El Perú-Waka’, this volume discusses occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE and offers researchers an unmatched view of ancient life in a tropical urban environment.
The Florida Vegetarian Cookbook
With delicious recipes that showcase Florida’s bounty of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and grains, this book celebrates the seasonal harvests of the Sunshine State.
The Enduring Seminoles
From Alligator Wrestling to Casino Gaming
Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas
A Zooarchaeological Historical Study
In this book, Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeological and material evidence from sites across Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to show how the introduction of cattle, beginning with imports by Spanish colonizers in the 1500s, shaped colonial American society.
Dream State
Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife
Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State tells the grand and sometimes crazy story of Florida through the eyes of author and journalist Diane Roberts.
Tracing Florida Journeys
Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now
In this book, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of explorers and travelers who came to Florida during the past five centuries, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective of today.
The Archaeology of Contemporary America
This book provides a survey of contemporary archaeology in the United States, demonstrating the plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches that make this discipline in the US unique.
Sunshine State Mafia
A History of Florida’s Mobsters, Hit Men, and Wise Guys
A wild ride through a century of Mafia lore, this book offers inside accounts and little-known stories of organized crime across Florida, from the Keys to Pensacola and Jacksonville.
Florida's Peace River Frontier
In this book, Canter Brown, Jr. records the economic, social, political, and racial history of the Peace River Valley in southwest Florida in an account of violence, passion, struggle, sacrifice, and determination.
Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce
A Critical Edition
This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called “epiphanies.” Presenting the texts with background information and thorough annotations, this edition provides a vivid insight into Joyce’s art.
Memory and Power at L’Hermitage Plantation
Heritage of a Nervous Landscape
Memory and Power at L’Hermitage Plantation
Heritage of a Nervous Landscape
Just Call Me Rae
The Story of Rae O. Weimer, Founder of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
An Introduction to Literary Debate in Late Medieval France
From Le Roman de la Rose to La Belle Dame sans Mercy
This volume immerses readers in a debate tradition that flourished in France during the late Middle Ages, focusing on two works that were both popular and controversial in their time and the discussions they sparked surrounding questions of women’s agency, love, marriage, and honor.
Dancing the Afrofuture
Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy
In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on how her career as a dancer and activist influenced her growth as a scholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black culture.
The Essential Writings of Robert A. Hill
Bringing together Robert A. Hill’s most important writings for the first time, this collection serves as a testament to Hill’s legacy as a pioneering scholar, activist, archive builder, and editor who shaped the study of Garveyism and pan-Africanism.
Southern History Remixed
On Rock ’n’ Roll and the Dilemma of Race
This book spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock ‘n’ roll, showing how the region’s musical activities reveal deep histories of racial tensions in southern culture.
The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World
Mythic History and Ritual Order
This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices.
The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean
Bringing together specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, this volume uses a historical archaeological approach to explore the importance of the region to the emergence of modernity and globalization.