Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

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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.

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Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo

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Bioarchaeology of Ethnogenesis in the Colonial Southeast

This work offers a different perspective on Florida&rsquo;s indigenous tribes, one that is explicitly interdisciplinary in inferring the formation of a new ethnic consciousness among La Florida&rsquo;s indigenous communities.

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Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction

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Florida Cowboys: Keepers of the Last Frontier

Visit a Florida where sunburn is the result of honest, hard work