Florida Sand dollar books
Our latest offerings :
| Up
for Grabs by John Rothchild |
Surrounded on Three Sides by John Keasler |
A wandering Floridian who made his way home in the early 1970s, John Rothchild writes about the state with the savvy of a native and the perspective of an outsider. His personal and historical travelogue reads alternately like a litany of 20th-century ills and a Monty Python rendering of the Great American Dream. In Florida, both versions are true.
Paper, $19.95 |
 1999. 224 pages. 6 X 9
ISBN 0-8130-1710-6 Paper,
$14.95
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| Going
to Miami by David Rieff |
River
of the Golden Ibis by Gloria Jahoda |
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| Palmetto
Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe Introduction by Mary B. Graff and Edith Cowles |
Sunshine
States: Wild Times and Extraordinary Lives in the Land of
Gators, Guns, and Grapefruit by Patrick Carr |
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First published in 1873, Palmetto Leaves is a collection
of idyllic sketches by famed author Harriet Beecher Stowe
(author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin) describing idyllic
Florida life in the late 1800s.
ISBN 0-8130-1693-2 Paper,
$12.95
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ISBN 0-8130-1734-3 Paper,
$14.95 |
other recent titles:
"A River in Flood" and Other Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Edited by Kevin McCarthy
ISBN 0-8130-1622-3 Cloth, $39.95s
ISBN 0-8130-1623-1 Paper, $17.95
1998, 6 X 9, 176pp., 9 illustrations
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Some Kind of Paradise
A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Floridaby Mark Derr
ISBN 0-8130-1629-0 Paper, $17.95
1998. 6 X 9. 448pp., 6 maps, 53 b&w photos, notes, bibliography, index
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The Immigrant World of Ybor City
Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985by Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta
ISBN 0-8130-1630-4 Paper, $17.95
1998. 6 X 9. 384pp., Notes, bibliography, index
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Swamp Sailors in the Second Seminole War
by George E. Buker
ISBN 0-8130-1514-6 Paper, $16.95
1997, 6 X 9, 148pp., 7 illustrations, 6 maps, notes, bibliography, index
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Augustin Verot, Florida's Civil War Prelate
by Michael Gannon
ISBN 0-8130-1522-7 Paper, $19.95
1997, 6 X 9, 277pp., 13 illustrations, notes, index
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Southwest Florida's Wetland Wilderness
Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islandsby Jeff Ripple
Photographs by Clyde Butcher
"Books like this one contribute much to the public understanding and appreciation of this magnificent subtropical ecosystem and the unique native plants and animals it supports."—John H. Fitch, President, The Conservancy, Naples, Florida
ISBN 0-8130-1454-9 Paper, $16.95
1996. 5 ½ X 8 ½. 112pp., 24 b&w photographs, plant & wildlife species list, bibliography
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St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950
by Raymond Arsenault
Winner of the 1990 Tebeau Book Prize
"Arsenault’s new history of St. Petersburg is not only the best and most professional effort so far, it is also a good book in its own right . . . a book from which to take both pleasure and instruction."—St. Petersburg Times
ISBN 0-8130-1442-5 Cloth, $39.95
ISBN 0-8130-1667-3 Paper, $24.95
1996, 7 X 9, 360pp., 396 b&w photos, bibliography, index
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Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Edited by Kevin McCarthy
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Racial Change and Community Crisis
St. Augustine, Florida, 1877-1980by David R. Colburn
"Colburn presents the facts and is not afraid to interpret them. His narrative captures the inherent drama of specific events and situations: the ruthless beatings of demonstrators, the complacency and fear of many white moderates, the genuinely incredible power of nonviolence to accomplish grand political ends, and the great courage this weapon required of those who wielded it."—Reviews in American History
In 1964, racial reform and racial extremism clashed in St. Augustine, Florida, the city the Southern Christian Leadership Conference targeted for the activities of its nonviolent army. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the SCLC staged demonstrations in St. Augustine that they hoped would pressure the U.S. Congress into passing civil rights legislation. Extremists, led by Ku Klux Klan and John Birch Society members, saw in St. Augustine a last opportunity to halt the forces of racial change. What resulted—beatings, shootings, bombings, and mass arrests—was some of the ugliest racial violence the nation has witnessed.
ISBN 0-8130-1066-7 Paper, $19.95
1991. 6 X 9. 258pp., Photos, notes, index
The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788
by Patricia C. Griffin
"A fine book that rounds out a relatively well-known chapter of Florida and St. Augustine history . . . highly recommended."
—Florida Historical Quarterly
In the late eighteenth century, Scottsman Andrew Turnbull brought farmers from Italy, Greece, and Minorca to British East Florida to work an indigo plantation at New Smyrna. Bound together by their common Mediterranean heritage, these farmers rebelled against the harsh life of the plantation and escaped to St. Augustine, where they became a strong, cohesive community and formed the core of that city’s Hispanic population when Florida was ceded back to Spain in 1784. Griffin traces the fortunes of the community during its critical two decades from the founding of the first colony at New Smyrna through the rebellion to settlement in St. Augustine under Spanish rule.
ISBN 0-8130-1074-8 Cloth, $29.95s
ISBN 0-8130-1093-4 Paper, $16.95
1991. 6 X 9. 219pp.
Photographs, bibliography, index, illustrations, maps, tables, charts
The Camp Fires of the Everglades
or Wild Sports in the Southby Charles E. Whitehead
Foreword by Lovett E. Williams, Jr.
Brought to the attention of UPF by the late Archie Carr, this sportsman’s memoir of the Florida peninsula in the nineteenth century is a series of charming tales about hunting expeditions along the cracker frontier.
The Florida peninsula in the 1830s was covered by flatwoods, swamps of giant cyprus, and hammocks of cabbage palm and live oak trees. The land teemed with panther, black bear, wild hogs, and white ibis. Writing with clarity and elegance, Whitehead weaves his descriptions of this landscape into an old-fashioned, hair-raising adventure story.
ISBN 0-8130-1089-6 Cloth, $19.95
ISBN 0-8130-1095-0 Paper, $12.95
1991. 6 X 9. 281pp. Photographs, drawings
The Houses of St. Augustine, 1565-1821
by Albert Manucy
"Albert Manucy's book continues to serve as a catalyst for architectural preservation in St. Augustine and to inspire similar works elsewhere. His sketches, which explain this colonial architecture, delight as much as they inform. The book also serves as a gentle reminder to Yankees that Florida was civilized before the Puritans settled New England."--F. Blair Reeves, chairman, Historic Resource Committee, Florida Association/American Institute of Architects
As architecture documents history, The Houses of St. Augustine records architecture, preserving and interpreting the history of housing in the oldest city in the continental United States.
The charming two-story house so distinctive to St. Augustine offers tangible evidence of Spanish settlement in the New World. Long before Pedro Menendez de Aviles founded St. Augustine, houses similar to the loggia-and-balcony houses of St. Augustine existed in his home province of Oviedo and in nearby Santander. The special feature of the casa Santanderina design, which Manucy calls the "St. Augustine Plan," is a roofed balcony over the street or the yard that anticipates the "Florida room" of this century. On both the north coast of Spain and the northeast coast of Florida, the porch excludes the cold wind and admits the sun in winter; it lets in the breeze and tempers the hot sun in summer.
Upon its first publication thirty years ago, this classic volume contributed to an awakening of interest in St. Augustine architecture; it continues to be the basic reference tool for colonial period restoration and for the ongoing archaeological and anthropological research in the city. In detailed drawings and nontechnical language, the book identifies basic house types and records their dimensions, construction techniques, materials, and design details from foundations to roofs. It has been the cornerstone that enabled the St. Augustine government to frame architecture guidelines for preservation and restoration of existing historic buildings, reconstruction of lost structures, and construction of contemporary homes in designs that are compatible with the historic architecture.
Published in cooperation with the St. Augustine Historical Society
ISBN 0-8130-1103-5 Paper, $12.95
1992. 6 X 9. 179pp. 80 drawings, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
The Idea of Florida in the American Literary Imagination
by Anne E. Rowe
From reviews of the first edition:
"Scrupulous yet enjoyable literary criticism, and most enjoyable because it is so surefooted and so strongly practical: It helps you think about what you read about Florida."--St. Petersburg Times
"Suggests how our national imagination has seized upon one aspect of the South and found therein a richness that it can continue to mine."--Modern Fiction Studies
For Ernest Hemingway, the semitropics of Key West offered "the last wild country"; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings recaptured a sense of home at Cross Creek that she had not experienced since childhood; Henry James vacationed in Palm Beach and St. Augustine and was torn between "the velvet air, the colour of the sea, the 'royal' palms clustered here and there" and his repugnance for the masses who transformed great hotels into "Vanity Fair in full blast." They--along with others--came to Florida, and they expressed their experiences in poems, stories, and nonfiction.
Beginning with the premise that Florida has been perceived in the American imagination as "not merely a geographic region but an image, a garden, Eden-like," Rowe analyzes representative works of writers from the early national period to the present who were attracted to the state and who found it without parallel in the rest of the country.
ISBN 0-8130-1107-8 Paper, $17.95
1992. 6 X 9. 162pp. 12 photographs, bibliography, index
Flagler
Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron
by Edward N. Akin
From reviews of the first edition:
"A succinct and informed account of [Flagler's] leadership in transforming Florida's economy."--American Historical Review
"An important contribution to the understanding of Standard Oil's extended partnership and how the personal desire of Flagler led to the early development of Florida's Atlantic Coast."--The Historian
Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails.
As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil's national domination over oil transportation costs.
ISBN 0-8130-1108-6 Paper, $19.95
1992. 6 X 9. 303pp., 15 b&w photographs, index
Urban Vigilantes in the New South
Tampa, 1882-1936by Robert P. Ingalls
From reviews of the hardcover edition:
"Ingalls's hard-hitting indictment is an important addition to the literature on the role of elites in the 'New South' and the extremes to which they would resort to maintain their hegemony."--John Dittmer, Journal of Southern History
"Ingalls's exhaustive examination of early twentieth-century strikes, of the membership and tactics of the citizens' committees, of the antisocialist terrorism of the 1930s, and of neglected topics such as the lectors in the cigar factories is both original and useful. . . . [H]is portrait of terrorism in Tampa is chilling."--George C. Rable, Journal of American History
Like bookends, lynchings bracket this examination of collective violence in Tampa: an 1880s lynching of an English immigrant and two 1930s killings--the vigilante murder of a black prisoner and the flogging death of a white radical. Events in between leave little doubt that the city deserved its 1930s ranking by the American Civil Liberties Union as one of nine centers of repression and its reputation for "anti-labor, anti-Negro, anti-alien, anti-Communist, anti-Socialist, anti-liberal violence."
Named an Outstanding Book on the subject of intolerance in the United States by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States, Ingalls's work centers on anti-union vigilantism directed by the city's elite--most often by a succession of citizens' committees--against the cigar makers of Tampa's Ybor City community, skilled workers who were largely Latin, foreignborn, class-conscious, and militant.
ISBN 0-8130-1223-6 Paper, $16.95
1993. 6 X 9. 306pp., 47 photographs, 3 maps, notes, bibliography, index
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
Florida's Fighting Democrat
by Samuel Proctor
From reviews of the first edition:
"The impact of [Broward's] career upon the Florida political scene is told by Samuel Proctor with a skill that combines suspense and accuracy. . . . A great contribution in the field of Florida history."--Miami Daily News
"The first full-dress biography of [a] colorful Florida politician. . . . His name is perpetuated in the county created at the height of the drainage boom for which he was chiefly responsible. But to many Floridians the name of Broward means a daring filibusterer who smuggled guns and guerrillas to Cuba's revolutionaries. That melodramatic chapter of Broward's life is not overlooked by biographer Proctor."-- Miami Herald
Now in a new paperback edition, Samuel Proctor's popular biography was first described as "a lusty narrative of a lusty age." Revealing the politics and intrigues of frontier Florida in the period still known as the "Broward Era," Proctor describes the life and liberal administration of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward (1857-1910), elected governor of Florida in 1904.
ISBN 0-8130-1191-4 Paper, $17.95
1993. 6 X 9. 416pp., Photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Folksongs of Florida
Edited by Alton C. Morris
From more than a hundred singers, Alton Morris gathered these 243 folksongs in the late 1930s—songs of war, outlawry and prisons, love and religion, nursery tunes, occupational tunes, and even hurricane songs. The unbiased selection of the tunes and historical texts which follow the transcriptions make this a collection that more truly than most reflects the complete singing traditions of a regional cultural group—Floridians in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
ISBN 0-8130-0983-9 Paper, $19.95
1990. 6 X 9, 464pp., Illustrations, music, lyrics, bibliography, notes, index
2000. 224pp. 6 X 9
