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The Seminoles of Florida

By: James W. Covington

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The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

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University Press of Florida

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1947372378

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9781947372375

Creeks & Seminoles

The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People

By: James Leitch Wright

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Creeks & Seminoles

The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People

By: James Leitch Wright

During Andrew Jackson's time the Creeks and Seminoles (Muscogulges) were the largest group of Indians living on the frontier. In Georgia, Alabama, and Florida they manifested a geographical and cultural, but not a political, cohesiveness. Ethnically and linguistically, they were highly diverse. This book is the first to locate them firmly in their full historical context.

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406

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803297289

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9780803297289

Trees, Truffles, and Beasts

How Forests Function

By: Chris Maser,Andrew W. Claridge,James M. Trappe

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Trees, Truffles, and Beasts

How Forests Function

By: Chris Maser,Andrew W. Claridge,James M. Trappe

This publication makes a compelling case that in order to develop sustainable ecosystem policies, we must first understand the complexity and interdependency of species and habitats. Comparing forests in the Pacific Northwestern United States and Southeastern mainland of Australia, the authors show how easily observable species - trees and mammals - are part of an infrastructure that includes fungi, lichens and organisms invisible to the naked eye, such as microbes. This important book shows that forests are far more complicated than most of us might think, which means simplistic policies will not save them. Understanding the biophysical intricacies of our life support systems just might.

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Rutgers University Press

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081354226X

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9780813542263

The Indians’ New World

Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal

By: James H. Merrell

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The Indians’ New World

Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal

By: James H. Merrell

This eloquent, pathbreaking account follows the Catawbas from their first contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century until they carved out a place in the American republic three centuries later. It is a story of Native agency, creativity, resilience, and endurance. Upon its original publication in 1989, James Merrell's definitive history of Catawbas and their neighbors in the southern piedmont helped signal a new direction in the study of Native Americans, serving as a model for their reintegration into American history. In an introduction written for this twentieth anniversary edition, Merrell recalls the book's origins and considers its place in the field of early American history in general and Native American history in particular, both at the time it was first published and two decades later.

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UNC Press Books

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0807838691

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9780807838693

Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves

A Plain-Spoken History of Mid-Illinois

By: James Krohe

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Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves

A Plain-Spoken History of Mid-Illinois

By: James Krohe

This popular general history of the middle third of Illinois is organized thematically and covers the Woodland period of prehistory until roughly 1960"--

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SIU Press

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0809336022

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9780809336029

Presidents in Florida

How the Presidents Have Shaped Florida and How Florida Has Influenced the Presidents

By: James C Clark

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Presidents in Florida

How the Presidents Have Shaped Florida and How Florida Has Influenced the Presidents

By: James C Clark

U.S. Presidents have played a major role in shaping Florida, whether waging wars, protecting the environment, seeking votes, or just drawing media attention to the state's attractions. Thomas Jefferson set out to buy Florida, but ended up making the Louisiana Purchase instead. Andrew Jackson came to fight Indians when La Florida was still a Spanish colony and then became the first territorial governor. Abraham Lincoln came up with the plan to get Florida back into the Union in 1864 to help his reelection chances. Ulysses S. Grant came to promote steamships on the St. Johns River. Warren G. Harding played golf with an elephant as a caddie, and Chester Arthur went fishing in Orlando. Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders sailed to glory from Tampa, but nearly missed the boat. Herbert Hoover came to Florida to spend time with his friends, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone, and held the Florida record for catching the largest bonefish. Days before his inauguration, an assassination attempt was made on Franklin Roosevelt as he spoke in a Miami park. Roosevelt's yacht was anchored at Fort Lauderdale when a massive hurricane swept it inland. Roosevelt tried to sell it as a hunting lodge. Harry Truman launched a campaign to defeat a Florida Senator, and had a house in Key West called the Little White House. Nixon killed the Cross Florida Barge Canal, becoming a hero to environmentalists. After winning election, he purchased a home in Florida and was there during the Watergate burglary. George W. Bush launched his political career in Florida, working for a successful Senate candidate. And of course it was the contested Florida vote, with its "hanging-chad" ballots, that gave him reelection in 2000. Learn about all of these men and more in this unique take on Florida history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561647667

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9781561647668

Twice the Citizen

A History of the United States Army Reserve, 1908-1995

By: James T. Currie,Richard B. Crossland

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Twice the Citizen

A History of the United States Army Reserve, 1908-1995

By: James T. Currie,Richard B. Crossland

In this revised and expanded second edition, you will find a comprehensive history of the United States Army Reserve, from its birth on April 23, 1908 with limited mission to a force of almost one million men and women serving and their contributions to the national defense structure of our country. There is a great deal of material relating to the US Army Reserve role in Desert Shield and Desert Storm time-frame. Questions about the "Total Force" and how well it worked during the Gulf Conflict as well as the Army Reserve's size and structure are a few of the author's controversial topics covered within this volume. Select black and white photos interspersed throughout add a visual component to this dense text as well as several appendices to provide additional historical relevance. Related products: Other products relating to the U.S. Army Reserve Command can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/army-reserve-command Warrior Citizen: The official magazine fo the U.S. Army Reserve print subscription is available here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/warrior-citizen-official-magazine-us-army-reserve Operational Reservations: Considerations for a Total Army Force available here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/operational-reservations-considerations-total-army-force

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Department of the Army

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0160946468

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9780160946462

Schooling the New South

Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920

By: James L. Leloudis

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Schooling the New South

Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920

By: James L. Leloudis

Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina's classrooms as they existed at the turn of the century and explores the wide-ranging social and psychological implications of the transition from old-fashioned common schools to modern graded schools. He argues that this critical change in methods of instruction both reflected and guided the transformation of the American South. According to Leloudis, architects of the New South embraced the public school as an institution capable of remodeling their world according to the principles of free labor and market exchange. By altering habits of learning, they hoped to instill in students a vision of life that valued individual ambition and enterprise above the familiar relations of family, church, and community. Their efforts eventually created both a social and a pedagogical revolution, says Leloudis. Public schools became what they are today--the primary institution responsible for the socialization of children and therefore the principal battleground for society's conflicts over race, class, and gender. Southern History/Education/North Carolina

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807862835

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9780807862834

Cuban Americans

From Trauma to Triumph

By: James Stuart Olson,Judith E. Olson

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Cuban Americans

From Trauma to Triumph

By: James Stuart Olson,Judith E. Olson

In this insightful and fascinating survey of Cuban-American settlement in the United States, James and Judith Olson look at the unique Cuban-American identity - still intact, highly visible, and politically active - maintained by a people separated from their homeland by ideology and a mere 90 miles across the Straits of Florida. The Olsons point out that, more so than any other U.S. ethnic group, Cuban Americans have achieved a remarkable degree of demographic concentration, primarily settling in the Miami area, and have been among the most politically visible and the most economically successful of immigrant groups, considering that in the early 1990s they were among the most recent arrivals to the United States. The Olsons take a chronological approach to Cuban immigration, covering the origins of a Cuban culture in America, the early Cuban-American community here, Castro's 1955 revolution and reaction to it in Cuba and the United States, Cuban America in the 1950s, the "Golden Exiles" who entered the United States from 1959 to 1970, change and assimilation within the Cuban-American community from 1970 to 1980, immigrants from the Mariel boatlift, and, finally, Cuban America in 1995. Today, the Olsons note, American corporations and Cuban-American entrepreneurs stand poised to do business on the island the minute Castro's stranglehold gives way: hotels, cruise lines, airline companies, cable-television companies, and fast-food franchises are ready to bring capitalism and American popular culture back to Cuba. In the meantime, culturally, economically, and politically rich and bustling Cuban-American enclaves contribute to a unique, hybrid heritage that may one day be returned to Cubabut with a character distinctly its own.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0805784306

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9780805784305

A Small But Spartan Band

The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

By: Zack C. Waters,James C. Edmonds

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A Small But Spartan Band

The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia

By: Zack C. Waters,James C. Edmonds

A comprehensive study of the Florida Brigade, which served under Robert E. Lee in the famed Army of Northern Virginia.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817357742

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Book's by James W. Covington

The Seminoles of Florida

The Seminoles of Florida

Creeks & Seminoles

Creeks & Seminoles

Trees, Truffles, and Beasts

Trees, Truffles, and Beasts

The Indians’ New World

The Indians’ New World

Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves

Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves

Presidents in Florida

Presidents in Florida

Twice the Citizen

Twice the Citizen

Schooling the New South

Schooling the New South

Cuban Americans

Cuban Americans

A Small But Spartan Band

A Small But Spartan Band

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