Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

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State of War: A History of World War II in Florida

<p>This book explores how World War II transformed Florida into a major hub of military industry and an important training base for ground, naval, and air forces, detailing the war&rsquo;s lasting impacts on the state.</p>

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Creating and Consuming the American South

The contributors emphasize how narratives and images of "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications, and that they register at various local, regional, national, and transnational scales.

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The Saltwater Angler's Guide to Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida

Tommy Thompson's&nbsp;<em>The Saltwater Angler's Guide to Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida</em>&nbsp;is the one-stop-shop for all of the information you might need on saltwater fishing along the Gulf of Mexico below the panhandle.&nbsp;

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Crônicas Brasileiras: A Reader, Third Edition

This delightful collection is designed to assist students in developing their reading, speaking, and writing knowledge of Portuguese as it is used in present-day Brazil.

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Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages

Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europes Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race.

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Our Florida Legacy: Land, Legend, and Leadership

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Venezuela's Petro-Diplomacy: Hugo Chávez's Foreign Policy

<em>Venezuela's Petro-Diplomacy</em> offers fresh, authoritative insights into a wide array of questions hanging over Venezuelan foreign policy and the leadership of the maverick president, Chavez.&nbsp;

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In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems

Known in Cuba as a poet, essayist, translator, and professor, Saldana won the prestigious Nicholas Guillen Award for Distinction in Poetry in 1998 and the La Rosa Blanca Prize for&nbsp;La Noche, a children's book, in 1989. Before her death in 1999, most of her work had appeared in Spanish exclusively in Cuba with only scattered translations. This collection emphasizes her construction of a personal and poetic autobiography to reveal the identity of one of the best Afro-Caribbean poets of the twentieth century.

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The Florida Seminoles and the New Deal, 19331942

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Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism

Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritage studies, this volume demonstrates the many different ways archaeology can be used to contest social injustice.