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La Meri and Her Life in Dance

Performing the World

University Press of Florida
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Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast

University Press of Florida

Fourteen in-depth case studies incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North American native life in the Southeast.

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The Rosewood Massacre

An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence

University Press of Florida
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The Insistence of Harm

University Press of Florida
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Roaring Reptiles, Bountiful Citrus, and Neon Pies

An Unofficial Guide to Florida’s Official Symbols

University Press of Florida

With an eye for the illogical and a flair for the irreverent, journalist Mark Lane aims his sharp wit at one of the most intriguing duties of the Florida legislature—signing state symbols into law. In Roaring Reptiles, Bountiful Citrus, and Neon Pies, he spotlights nineteen things that have been proposed and/or appointed to officially define Florida.

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Bravura!

Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre

University Press of Florida
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Sallie Ann Robinson's Kitchen

Food and Family Lore from the Lowcountry

University Press of Florida
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Creole Clay

Heritage Ceramics in the Contemporary Caribbean

University Press of Florida
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Shaping Identity in Medieval French Literature

The Other Within

University Press of Florida

Contributors to this collection consider the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in many different ways. Inherently unstable, identity is created, re-created, adopted, refused, imposed, and self-imposed. Additionally, taken together the essays posit that an individual may identify with a group, existing within it, and yet remain foreign to it.

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Captain Kidd's Lost Ship

The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant

University Press of Florida

The troubled chain of events involving Captain Kidd’s capture of Quedagh Merchant and his eventual execution for piracy in 1701 are well known, but the exact location of the much sought-after ship remained a mystery for more than 300 years. In 2010, a team of underwater archaeologists confirmed that the sunken remains of Quedagh Merchant had finally been found off the coast of the Dominican Republic.

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Jacksonville

The Consolidation Story, from Civil Rights to the Jaguars

University Press of Florida

The decision to consolidate with surrounding Duval County began the transformation of this conservative, Deep South, backwater city into a prosperous, mainstream metropolis.

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Fort St. Joseph Revealed

The Historical Archaeology of a Fur Trading Post

University Press of Florida
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The Market for Mesoamerica

Reflections on the Sale of Pre-Columbian Antiquities

University Press of Florida

This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales of antiquities from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, which are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market

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The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits

University Press of Florida

The Archaeology of Prostitution and Clandestine Pursuits synthesizes case studies from various nineteenth-century sites where material culture reveals evidence of prostitution, including a brothel in Five Points, New York City’s most notorious neighborhood, and parlor houses a few blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill.

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Andean Ontologies

New Archaeological Perspectives

University Press of Florida
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The Letters of George Long Brown

A Yankee Merchant on Florida's Antebellum Frontier

University Press of Florida

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.

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The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom

University Press of Florida

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.

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United States Reconstruction across the Americas

Edited by William A. Link
University Press of Florida

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.

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Maya Salt Works

University Press of Florida

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.

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Brazilian Propaganda

Legitimizing an Authoritarian Regime

University Press of Florida
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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World

Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937–1955

University Press of Florida
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Borderland Narratives

Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850

University Press of Florida
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Seams of Empire

Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and the United States

University Press of Florida
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How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism

The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks

University Press of Florida
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In the Vortex of the Cyclone

Selected Poems

University Press of Florida
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Exile and Revolution

José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence

University Press of Florida
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Archaeologies of Listening

University Press of Florida
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Ogling Ladies

Scopophilia in Medieval German Literature

University Press of Florida
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Made in Florida

Artists, Celebrities, Activists, Educators, and Other Icons in the Sunshine State

University Press of Florida
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The Nature of Plants

An Introduction to How Plants Work

University Press of Florida

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.

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Disease and Discrimination

Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America

University Press of Florida
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Uncommonly Savage

Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States

University Press of Florida
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Distilling the Influence of Alcohol

Aguardiente in Guatemalan History

Edited by David Carey Jr.
University Press of Florida
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