Aaron Sachs. Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. xi + 484 pp. $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-300-17640-7.
Reviewed by Chris Wilhelm (College of Coastal Georgia) Published on H-Florida (December, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, Scott Zeman, eds. Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. 424 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-6530-5.
Reviewed by Michael Sanchez (Florida Gulf Coast University) Published on H-Florida (November, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Khyati Y. Joshi, Jigna Desai, eds. Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South. Asian American Experience Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 320 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03783-2; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07938-2.
Reviewed by Patricia Silver (National Coalition of Independent Scholars) Published on H-Florida (November, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Chanelle N. Rose. The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. 385 pp. $47.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8071-5766-4.
Reviewed by Devin T. Leigh (University of California, Davis) Published on H-Florida (September, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
William C. Van Norman. Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012. 232 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8265-1915-3.
Reviewed by Mark Fleszar Published on H-Florida (April, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Shade-Grown Agency?
Katrina Dyonne Thompson. Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 256 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03825-9; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07983-2.
Reviewed by Christine Rizzi (University of Mississippi) Published on H-Florida (March, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Blain Roberts. Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 384 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1420-5.
Reviewed by Sarah H. Brown Published on H-Florida (January, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Veiled Politics: The Business of Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
Gary Monroe. Mary Ann Carroll: First Lady of the Highwaymen. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Illustrations. 192 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-4969-4.
Reviewed by Kathryn Lee Seidel (University of Central Florida) Published on H-Florida (January, 2015) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
The Highwaywoman: Mary Ann Carroll’s Life and Paintings
Robert Cassanello. To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. 192 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-4419-4.
Reviewed by Philip Smith (Texas A&M University) Published on H-Florida (September, 2014) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
A Good Town for Negroes
Frank Marotti. The Cana Sanctuary: History, Diplomacy, and Black Catholic Marriage in Antebellum St. Augustine, Florida. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012. ix + 229 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8173-1747-8.
Reviewed by John Paul A. Nuno (California State University, Northridge) Published on H-Florida (August, 2014) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Elizabeth A. Fenn. Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People. New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. 480 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-4239-5.
Reviewed by Bryan Rindfleisch (University of Oklahoma) Published on H-Florida (July, 2014) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Recovering the Indigenous Past, Crafting a Native Narrative: The Mandan People Who Lived and Still Breathe at the “Heart of the World”
Elsbeth Gordon. Heart and Soul of Florida: Sacred Sites and Historic Architecture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Illustrations. xxii + 350 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-4400-2.
Reviewed by Jeff Donnelly (Miami Design Preservation League) Published on H-Florida (May, 2014) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Homo Faber in Florida
Larry Eugene Rivers. Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Illustrations. 221 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03691-0.
Reviewed by Philip Smith (Texas A&M University) Published on H-Florida (April, 2013) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
New Horizons of Resistance
Keith Ashley, Nancy Marie White, eds. Late Prehistoric Florida: Archaeology at the Edge of the Mississippian World. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. xii + 398 pp. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-4014-1.
Reviewed by Robert Austin (Southeastern Archeological Research, Inc) Published on H-Florida (October, 2012) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Richard E. Foglesong. Immigrant Prince: Mel Martinez and the American Dream. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. xxiv + 269 pp. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3579-6.
Reviewed by Julio Capo, Jr. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Published on H-Florida (October, 2012) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
