University Press of Florida Archaeology & Anthropology, History, Publication Announcement

The Archaeology of the American Revolution

“An excellent and timely addition to the literature on the archaeology of the American Revolution.”—Michael T. Lucas, coeditor of Archaeology of the War of 1812  “An incredibly significant contribution to the conflict archaeology of the American Revolution. No other works that address the conflict of the period from an archaeological perspective provide such a cohesive … Continue reading The Archaeology of the American Revolution

University Press of Florida Florida, Publication Announcement

Cultural Sites of North Florida

“An interesting collection of sites and stories related to North Florida. This book offers a solution to a common feeling among travelers: that the interstates are too congested, the traffic too fast, and the sites of interest full of too much monotony.”—Keith Simmons, executive director, Florida Book Awards “This book takes us down North Florida’s backroads … Continue reading Cultural Sites of North Florida

University Press of Florida Florida, History, Publication Announcement

A Town without Pity

“A Florida backwater—twice thrust onto the national stage over controversies decades apart—is again centered in this fishbowl of a book, a page-turning examination of the machinations of a municipal mob under the nation’s microscope. The haunting questions that gurgle throughout: Can a place be bad, and what makes it so?”—Ben Montgomery, author of Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: … Continue reading A Town without Pity

University Press of Florida Florida, History, Publication Announcement

Cow Creek Chronicles

“Cow Creek Chronicles is both a settler genealogy and a land-use history that reconstructs the background of the communities of this unique region. Gregory Enns uses interviews, some of which contain the only record of conversations with older residents of that world which is now disappearing—a world that reflects much of early settlement Florida.”—Willard Steele, … Continue reading Cow Creek Chronicles

University Press of Florida Literature & Literary Criticism, Publication Announcement

An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics

“William Quinn is a poet and a scholar, and here he reaches deep into both satchels to deliver an edition of selected medieval English lyrics combining learning and art—an altogether nonpareil achievement.”—Robert Yeager, coeditor of John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books   Middle English lyrics are anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth … Continue reading An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics

University Press of Florida Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Publication Announcement

Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture

“Provides a nuanced and comprehensive analysis of the evolution of LGBTQ+ identity and politics in the Dominican Republic.”—Danny Méndez, author of Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature “Horn brings literary and theatrical voices to bear on the question of LGBTQ/TT+ genealogies, and in so doing she traces queer representations from the Trujillo period to the … Continue reading Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture

University Press of Florida Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Publication Announcement

Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema

“Excellent, timely, and fascinating. Dzero adeptly places films into dialogue with novels, television series, and paintings to enumerate and explain different tropes of authoritarian masculinity.”—Jonathan Risner, author of Blood Circuits: Contemporary Argentine Horror Cinema   “Dzero deftly ties in dictatorships of the Cold War era with the contemporary moment, tracing an original connective thread between the past … Continue reading Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema