Founded in 1945, the University Press of Florida is the official publisher of the State University System of Florida. UPF has published over 2,500 books since its inception and currently releases approximately 80 new titles each year. Its publishing strengths include archaeology, history, literature, Latin American studies, African American studies, space studies, sustainability, and Florida history and culture. UPF engages educators, students, and discerning readers by producing works of global significance, regional importance, and lasting value.
University Press of Florida also includes the imprint, University of Florida Press.
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground
A History of African American Archaeology
Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century
Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest
This book tells the story of how Lacandón Maya families have adapted to the contemporary world while applying their ancestral knowledge to create an ecologically sustainable future in Mexico’s largest remaining tropical rainforest.
Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
- Copyright year: 2020
The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century
Spirited Diasporas
Personal Narratives and Global Futures of Afro-Atlantic Religions
Through a variety of first-person accounts, this book offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban Lukumí, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian Candomblé, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions.
Circulating Culture
Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange
The Making of Florida’s Universities
Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence of Domination in Indigenous Latin America
From Death Row to Freedom
The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of murder and sentenced to death during the civil rights era of the 1960s.
After Apollo
Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon
This book explores how NASA’s space program impacted American society and culture during and after the race to the Moon, looking back at the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing from the perspective of the present day.