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Did the holiday season creep up this year? Are you scrambling for gifts for friends and family? Do not fear! We have a wonderful selection of books for everyone you might need a gift for. From subjects such as history, nature, cooking, the arts, and more, you no longer have to stress about finding the … Continue reading Holiday Gift Guide 2024
“Avoiding an Athenocentric approach, this volume will be a very welcome source. It should serve to encourage historians of the period and region to more fully engage with the bioarchaeological record and the unique perspectives it offers on questions of population relationships, disease, and regionality when considering inequality and social differentiation.”—Linda Fibiger, coeditor of The … Continue reading Social Inequality and Difference in the Ancient Greek World
“A welcome and needed resource. Provides a clear and thorough summary and analysis of archaeological research into settler colonialism, global diaspora, and capitalism, and how these topics intersect in the Pacific Northwest.”—Mark Tveskov, coeditor of Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield Bordered by the Rocky Mountains to the east … Continue reading The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest
“Weaving together archaeological evidence, oral histories, and Indigenous knowledge, this volume breathes life into landscapes and objects that otherwise might have been unjustly robbed of their animate status.”—Dagmara Zawadzka, Okanagan College Archaeology in a Living Landscape: Envisioning Nonhuman Persons in the Indigenous Americas explores the diverse range of other-than-human persons that inhabited and affected the … Continue reading Archaeology in a Living Landscape
Members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) have long published scholarly works that contribute to understanding even the most complex or distressing current events. This week, alongside other AUPresses members, we're sharing a reading list featuring our publications on the topic of democracy from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. Some works focus … Continue reading Democracy: A Reading List
“An inspiring book that brings to life a part of our national history and does so through voices everyone can relate to. The authors of these essays are ordinary people who have seized an opportunity to do extraordinary things.”—Armand Derfner, civil rights litigator “This book helps us ask what we should do now that will … Continue reading More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers
“In this fascinating transnational project, Alonso writes the next chapter in satire studies. He introduces us to the digital natives across Latin America who are reworking satire for the post-TV era. Rich in local context, each of Alonso’s penetrating case studies explores the contours of new forms of DIY satire and examines the provocative ways … Continue reading Digital Satire in Latin America
“Aiello’s microhistory of peonage and convict labor in south Georgia shows how integral bound Black labor was to white supremacy in this corner of the postbellum South. No one else has shown how deeply entangled the illegal system of peonage was with a state-sanctioned carceral regime of forced labor.”—Alex Lichtenstein, coauthor of Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: … Continue reading Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt
“Ana has not only created a beautiful book of traditional and delicious recipes, but she has also made it accessible to people who would perhaps never cook Cuban food at all.”—From the foreword by Gloria Estefan“It’s rare to find a place where the flavors of food and life intersect. Ana always finds a way to … Continue reading Modern Cuban
We're excited to be participating in University Press Week as part of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses), an organization of 161 international nonprofit scholarly publishers. This year’s University Press Week theme is #StepUP, and together with other presses on this day of the UP Week blog tour we’re sharing WHERE our Press steps up to educate and enlighten, motivate and inspire, support and … Continue reading Florida and Sustainability: University Press Week 2024
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