William B. Stronge. The Sunshine Economy: An Economic History of Florida since the Civil War. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xxi + 334 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3201-6.
Reviewed by David Lee McMullen Published on H-Florida (September, 2009) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Stephen G. Craft. Embry-Riddle at War: Aviation Training during World War II. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xv + 313 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3299-3.
Reviewed by Robert A. Taylor (Florida Institute of Technology) Published on H-Florida (August, 2009) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Forging the Wings of Victory
Matthew T. Corrigan. Race, Religion, and Economic Change in the Republican South: A Case Study of a Southern City. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. ix + 146 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3160-6.
Reviewed by Kathleen Hladky (Florida State University) Published on H-Florida (July, 2009) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Robert Cassanello, Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds. Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. Working in the Americas Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. 320 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3283-2.
John A. Stuart, John F. Stack, eds. The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy, and Community Building, 1933-1940. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xx + 243 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3191-0.
Reviewed by Steven G. Noll Published on H-Florida (November, 2008) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Walter M. Manley, Canter Brown. The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 428 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3003-6.
Reviewed by Seth A. Weitz Published on H-Florida (October, 2008) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Decisions that Shaped a State
Rody Johnson. The Rise and Fall of Dodgertown: 60 Years of Baseball in Vero Beach. University Press of Florida, 2008. xiii + 302 pp.p Illustrations + photographs. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3194-1.
Reviewed by Jeff Donnelly Published on H-Florida (October, 2008) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Ebbets Field South
Faith Eidse. Voices of the Apalachicola. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 352 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2864-4.
Reviewed by David Lee McMullen Published on H-Florida (September, 2008) Commissioned by Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
Ghosts of the Apalachicola: The Voices of Florida’s Forgotten River
David R. Colburn. From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. x + 262 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3155-2.
Reviewed by Seth A. Weitz (Department of History, Indiana University-Northwest) Published on H-Florida (July, 2008)
A Transition from the Old South to the New South
Consuelo E. Stebbins. City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution: A Documentary History of Key West in the Nineteenth Century. Foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xx + 233 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3050-0.
Reviewed by Jeff Donnelly (Public Historian, Miami Design Preservation League) Published on H-Florida (July, 2008)
Thomas Reid. America's Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xii + 163 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3019-7.Gregory A. Waselkov. A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. ix + 414 pp.
Doug Alderson. Waters Less Traveled: Exploring Florida's Big Bend Coast. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xiv + 135 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8130-2903-0.
Reviewed by David Lee McMullen (Department of History, University of South Florida at St. Petersburg) Published on H-Florida (August, 2007)
Leigh Anne Duck. The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. 340 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-2810-2.
Reviewed by Kathryn Lee Seidel (Department of English, University of Central Florida) Published on H-Florida (April, 2007)
Julian Pleasants. Gator Tales: An Oral History of the University of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 408 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3054-8.
Reviewed by Fredric M. Hitt (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Florida (January, 2007)
Caroline Bettinger-Lopez. Cuban-Jewish Journeys: Search for Identity, Home, and History in Miami. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. xli + 277 pp. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-57233-098-6.
Reviewed by Jeff Donnelly (Public Historian, Miami Design Preservation League) Published on H-Florida (January, 2007)
Home Is Where the History Is
