The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
One of the twentieth century's most intriguing and complicated literary friendships was that between Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. In death, their reputations have reversed, but in the early 1940s Rawlings had already achieved wild success with her best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Yearling, while Hurston had ......
The Archaeology of a Sixteenth-Century Spanish Town in Hispaniola
Essays on the history and excavation of a key site for understanding early Spanish colonization in the Caribbean Puerto Real, Haiti, is the site of the largest and most intensive archaeological excavation of any Spanish colony in the Caribbean. It is a primary data source for understanding all Spanish colonial ventures in the region and a vital ......
Examples of how to conduct bioarchaeological research that integrates archival records with skeletal evidence Doing Historical Bioarchaeology explores ways researchers can utilize and approach archival records alongside skeletal evidence. In this book, case studies demonstrate how this dual approach can generate new research questions, ......
A sweeping technological and environmental history of Florida from its earliest peoples to the space age Over the past 14,000 years in Florida, human ingenuity and the natural world have influenced one another in unique ways. In this book, Brad Massey offers a survey of Florida's past through the lens of technology and the natural environment. ......
Revealing how the New Deal impacted South Florida's design and development The New Deal sought to restore national economic strength in part by reallocating resources and restructuring local landscapes. Few parts of the country were transformed as significantly as South Florida. Blurring the traditional disciplinary boundaries of design ......
The dangerous lives of wildlife officers in backcountry Florida Imagine yourself alone in the wilderness holding two lawbreaking suspects at gunpoint. No onlookers, no backup. Just you in the dark, in the middle of nowhere, with suspects who would cheerfully kill you if they thought they could get away with it. Veteran wildlife officer Bob Lee ......
Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans
Tracing the histories of Afro-Mexican religious brotherhoods organized in seventeenth-century New Spain Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called ......
Essays from scholars of labor and migration that examine changes in the Southern workplace after World War II In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the American South became very diverse very quickly. New businesses and job opportunities in the region drove this growth, brought an influx of capital, and attracted residents from ......
An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's record-breaking foreclosure crisis While working to help his father's small company "trash out"-enter and empty-foreclosed homes in Florida during the 2008 housing crash, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden, a hard-hitting, personal, and poetic portrayal of the people and communities ......
