Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington’s Army
Andean Ontologies
New Archaeological Perspectives
The Letters of George Long Brown
A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier
This book collects previously unpublished letters written by a merchant in north Florida before the Civil War, offering a view of the region’s transformation to a market economy due in part to its increased reliance on slavery.
The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom
Excavations at cities including New York and Philadelphia reveal that slavery was a crucial part of the expansion of urban life as late as the 1840s. The case studies in this book also show that enslaved African-descended people frequently staffed suburban manor houses and agricultural plantations. Moreover, for free blacks, racist laws such as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 limited the experience of freedom in the region. Delle explains how members of the African diaspora created rural communities of their own and worked in active resistance against the institution of slavery.
United States Reconstruction across the Americas
Historians have examined the American Civil War and its aftermath for more than a century, yet little work has situated this important era in a global context. Contributors to this volume open up ways of viewing Reconstruction not as an insular process but as an international phenomenon.
Maya Salt Works
In Maya Salt Works, Heather McKillop details her archaeological team’s groundbreaking discovery of a unique and massive salt production complex submerged in a lagoon in southern Belize. Exploring the organization of production and trade at the Paynes Creek Salt Works, McKillop offers a fascinating new look at the role of salt in the ancient Maya economy.
The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World
Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937–1955
Borderland Narratives
Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850
Seams of Empire
Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States
How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism
The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks
Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Archaeologies of Listening
Reassessing the Heroine in Medieval French Literature
Made in Florida
Artists, Celebrities, Activists, Educators, and Other Icons in the Sunshine State
The Nature of Plants
An Introduction to How Plants Work
Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides readers with an elucidating journey into their inner and outer workings.
Disease and Discrimination
Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America
Uncommonly Savage
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
Distilling the Influence of Alcohol
Aguardiente in Guatemalan History
Picturing Apollo 11
Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments
Through a wealth of unpublished and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely seen views of the people, places, and events involved in planning, accomplishing, and commemorating the first Moon landing.
Affective Materialities
Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature
The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies
Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political Struggle
Beyond the Walls
New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households
Florida and the 2016 Election of Donald J. Trump
Showing how “chaos candidate” Donald Trump scored critical victories in Florida in an election cycle that defied conventional political wisdom, this volume offers surprising insights into the 2016 Republican primary and presidential election. Using historical and current election results, campaign spending numbers, United States Census data, and individual surveys, contributors examine how Trump handily won the primary over state favorites Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. They find that Trump won the small but crucial rural and suburban counties ignored by the Clinton campaign; that early voting was less decisive than had been assumed; that immigration was not the driving issue for the majority of Hispanic voters as analysts originally believed; and that African American voter turnout was down significantly from 2012 despite the racially divisive nature of Trump’s campaign. Essays also include a breakdown of how the unpredictable voting patterns in Central Florida’s I-4 corridor often determine which candidate takes the state. Florida’s clout should not be dismissed. The state awards more electoral votes than most, and its victor has gone on to claim the presidency in the last six elections. This volume forecasts the future of the most politically volatile state in the union and reveals emerging trends in the national political landscape.
Dancing in Blackness
A Memoir
Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond
A Memoir
Geologic History of Florida
Major Events that Formed the Sunshine State
Virginia Woolf's Modernist Path
Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read
Dixie's Daughters
The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
The Archaeology of American Childhood and Adolescence
This is the first book to focus on archaeological evidence from the recent past related to children, childhood, and adolescence. Jane Baxter, a foremost authority on the archaeology of historic American childhood, synthesizes the growing variety of ways researchers have been approaching the topic, guiding readers through an abundance of current data on the experiences of children in American history.
An Archaeology of Abundance
Reevaluating the Marginality of California’s Islands
The islands of Alta and Baja California changed dramatically in the centuries after Spanish colonists arrived. Native populations were decimated by disease, and their lives were altered through forced assimilation and the cessation of traditional foraging practices. Overgrazing, overfishing, and the introduction of nonnative species depleted natural resources severely. Most scientists have assumed the islands were also relatively marginal for human habitation before European contact, but An Archaeology of Abundance reassesses this long-held belief, analyzing new lines of evidence suggesting that the California islands were rich in resources important to human populations.
Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida
Florida is home to a more diverse variety of amphibians and reptiles than any other state due to its wide array of ecosystems—from pine forests to the subtropical Everglades to the tropical Keys—and its large number of established nonnative species. This volume is a comprehensive account of the 219 species known to exist in the state.
Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies
Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies presents teaching strategies for helping students think critically about the meanings of the past today. In these pragmatic case studies, experienced teachers discuss ways to integrate the values of heritage studies into archaeology curricula, illustrating how the two fields enrich each other and how perspectives drawn from teaching public archaeology invite such engagement.
History and Approaches to Heritage Studies
History and Approaches to Heritage Studies explores the historical development of cultural heritage theory and practice, as well as current issues in the field. It brings together archaeologists who are deeply engaged with a range of stakeholders in heritage management and training.
Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance
Contexts for a Brave New World
This volume demonstrates how humans adapt to new and challenging environments by building and adjusting their identities. By gathering a diverse set of case studies that draw on popular themes in contemporary historical archaeology and current trends in archaeological method and theory, it shows the many ways identity formation can be seen in the material world that humans create.
Modernist Communities across Cultures and Media
Marked by a rejection of traditional affiliations such as nation, family, and religion, modernism is often thought to privilege the individual over the community. The contributors to this volume question this assumption, uncovering the communal impulses of the modernist period across genres, cultures, and media.
Modernism and Food Studies
Politics, Aesthetics, and the Avant-Garde
The diverse topics and methodologies assembled here illustrate how food studies can enrich research in the literary and visual arts. A milestone volume, this collection introduces possibilities for understanding the connection between modernist aesthetics and the emerging food cultures of a globalizing world.
Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England
Exploring museums and cultural centers in New England that hold important meanings for Native American communities today, this illuminating book offers a much-needed critique of the collaborative work being done to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of the region.
Grasses of Florida
Grasses are the fourth largest family of flowering plants worldwide. In Florida, grasses occur in every habitat and are the dominant ground cover across many regions. Grasses of Florida is the first complete systematic account of the grasses that occur in the wild throughout the state.
Flora of Florida, Volume VI
Dicotyledons, Convolvulaceae through Paulowniaceae
This sixth volume of the Flora of Florida collection continues the definitive and comprehensive identification manual to the Sunshine State’s 4,000 kinds of native and non-native ferns and fern allies, nonflowering seed plants, and flowering seed plants. Volume VI contains the taxonomic treatments of 19 families of Florida’s dicotyledons.
Modernist Soundscapes
Auditory Technology and the Novel
At the turn of the twentieth century, new technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, and radio changed how sound was transmitted and perceived. In Modernist Soundscapes, Angela Frattarola analyzes the influence of “the age of noise” on writers of the time, showing how modernist novelists used sound to bridge the distance between characters and to connect with the reader on a more intimate level.