Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince
An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti
Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege
White Southern Women Activists in the Civil Rights Era
The Aesthetics of Chaos
Nonlinear Thinking and Contemporary Literary Criticism
Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years
A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow
South Carolina's George Washington Murray
Caribbean Rum
A Social and Economic History
Christopher Columbus brought sugarcane to the New World on his second voyage. By 1520 commercial sugar production was underway in the Caribbean, along with the perfection of methods to ferment and distill alcohol from sugarcane to produce a new beverage that would have dramatic impact on the region. Caribbean Rum presents the fascinating cultural, economic, and ethnographic history of rum in the Caribbean from the colonial period to the present.
The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking
Frederick Smith identifies key themes associated with alcohol production, distribution, and consumption. He discusses industrial and home production of alcoholic beverages and both public and clandestine drinking. He defines the contexts in which drinking takes place and the motivations—social and antisocial—for alcohol consumption.
Selling the Sunshine State
A Celebration of Florida Tourism Advertising
For more than a century, Florida has thrived on its image as an exotic playground. Selling the Sunshine State offers a scrapbook of bygone brochures, postcards, souvenirs, and photos, all designed to lure northerners (and fellow southerners) into the peninsula.
Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 with an Atlas
Faysal
Saudi Arabia's King for All Seasons
In Faysal, Joseph Kechichian offers the first biography of the ruler in decades, and the first to make use of interviews and key archival and declassified documents. Utilizing the same writing style that has earned accolades from The Economist and other publications, Kechichian offers a balanced assessment of Faysal and his impact. Any understanding of the ties between Saudi Arabia and the West is incomplete without this book.
The Florida Life of Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was America’s most famous and, arguably, most prolific inventor. But few realize the extent to which he called Florida, not New Jersey, home.
Balanchine the Teacher
Fundamentals That Shaped the First Generation of New York City Ballet Dancers
The Circus Kings
Our Ringling Family Story
Originally published in 1960, and told with remarkable honesty by the nephew of the original Ringling brothers, The Circus Kings remains a clear and unexaggerated telling of what the circus was like for those who lived it.
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
A Social History of Modern Florida
From New Spain, to Old South, to New South, to Sunbelt, the story of how and why millions have come to Florida and influenced the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. 52 b&w and 6 color photos, 4 maps.
Chaucer from Prentice to Poet
The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde
This book corrects the traditional interpretations of Geoffrey Chaucer’s early poems, providing new readings of the three "dream visions" and Troilus and Criseyde.
T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928
Lincoln's Lost Legacy
The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928-1952
Packaged Vacations
Tourism Development in the Spanish Caribbean
The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis
A Global View on a Reemerging Disease
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954
An Intellectual History
U.S. Space Launch-Vehicle Technology
Viking to Space Shuttle
Preludes to U.S. Space-Launch Vehicle Technology
Goddard Rockets to Minuteman III
Nino Pernetti's Caffè Abbracci Cookbook
His Life Story and Travels around the World
The Sunshine Economy
An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War
African American Atheists and Political Liberation
A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith
The Rescue of the Gale Runner
Death, Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard
Slavery and the Peculiar Solution
A History of the American Colonization Society
Interacting with the Dead
Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium
