Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Asterie Baker Provenzo. In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xv + 184 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2566-7.
Reviewed by James Holton (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Warner Southern College) Published on H-Florida (October, 2002)
John M. Williams, Iver W. Duedall. Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001. Expanded edition. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xiii + 176 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8130-2494-3.
Reviewed by Robert H. Claxton (Professor Emeritus of History, State University of West Georgia) Published on H-Florida (October, 2002)
Paul E. Hoffman. Florida's Frontiers. A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvii + 470 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-34019-1.
Reviewed by Daniel S. Murphree (Department of History, University of Texas at Tyler) Published on H-Florida (September, 2002)
Synthesizing Florida's Colonial Past
Bill Grantham. Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xi + 337. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2451-6.
Reviewed by Joshua Piker (Department of History, University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Florida (September, 2002)
Creek Myths and Legends
Glen E. Swanson, ed. Before This Decade is Out: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. x + 377. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8130-2537-7.
Reviewed by James Holton (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Warner Southern College) Published on H-Florida (September, 2002)
William E. McGoun. Ancient Miamians: The Tequesta of South Florida. Native Peoples, Cultures, and Places of the Southeastern United States Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xiii + 112 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2495-0.
Reviewed by Heather Portorreal (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University) Published on H-Florida (September, 2002)
David R. Colburn, Lance deHaven-Smith. Florida's Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. viii + 161 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8130-2532-2.
Reviewed by Gordon E. Harvey (Department of History and Government, University of Louisiana at Monroe) Published on H-Florida (September, 2002)
As Florida Goes, So Goes the Nation
Nancy Foner, ed. New Immigrants in New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. viii + 313 pp. $49.50 (cloth), 22.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-12414-0.
Reviewed by Thomas A. Castillo (Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park) Published on H-Florida (August, 2002)
The
The "New" New York Immigrants
Bernard Romans. A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. Edited by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. xiv + 442 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8173-0876-6.
Reviewed by Robert Olwell (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Florida (August, 2002)
William Warren Rogers, James M. Denham. Florida Sheriffs: A History, 1821-1945. Tallahassee: Sentry Press, 2001. 345 pp. $29.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-889574-11-0.
Reviewed by Jackson Maynard (Florida State University) Published on H-Florida (July, 2002)
Walter Kingsley Taylor, Eliane M. Norman. André Michaux in Florida: An Eighteenth-Century Botanical Journey. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Maps. 288 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2444-8.
Reviewed by Melody Herr (Acquisitions, The Johns Hopkins University Press) Published on H-Florida (July, 2002)
The French Wanderer in Florida
John T. McGrath. The French in Early Florida: In the Eye of the Hurricane. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. 239 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-1784-6.
Reviewed by Courtney Spikes (California State University, Los Angeles) Published on H-Florida (June, 2002)
International Intrigue and the Quest for Florida
International Intrigue and the Quest for Florida
James J. Miller. An Environmental History of Northeast Florida. The Ripley P. Bullen Series, Florida Museum of Natural History. Gainesville, Fla: University Press of Florida, 1998. xvi + 224 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-1600-9.
Reviewed by David McCally (Department of History, University of Florida ) Published on H-Florida (May, 2002)
It's Environmental, but It's Not History
Larry Eugene Rivers. Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. xvi + 369 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-1813-3.
Reviewed by Andrew Frank (Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles) Published on H-Florida (May, 2002)
A Not So Peculiar Institution
A Not So Peculiar Institution
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Blood of My Blood. Edited by Anne Blythe Meriwether. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xvi + 170 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2443-1.
Reviewed by Kathryn Lee Seidel (Department of English, University of Central Florida) Published on H-Florida (April, 2002)
Mothering Marjorie: Rawlings' First Novel
