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Florida Place-Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 16.95A compendium of Indian-derived names from the three languages of the Muskhogean family—Seminole, Hitchiti, and Choctaw. The first Native peoples of what is now the United States who met and interacted with Europeans were the people of the lower Southeast. They were individuals of the larger Maskókî linguistic family who... more...
The Jackson County War
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 29.95The Jackson County War offers original conclusions explaining why Jackson County became the bloodiest region in Reconstruction Florida and is the first book-length treatment of the subject. From early 1869 through the end of 1871, citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered their neighbors by the score. The nearly threeyear frenzy... more...
The Cana Sanctuary
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 39.95The Cana Sanctuary uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of everyday people caught in the path of an expanding American empire. In the late seventeenth... more...
Menéndez De Avilés and La Florida
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 169.95This edition of the chronicles written about Menéndez de Avilés, his explorations, settlement and governorship of La Florida is the first annotated publication of the expeditions' chronicles available to an English audience. These documents offer both primary source data as well as contextual information concerning Spanish colonial history... more...
Heaven's Soldiers
University of Alabama Press 2013; US$ 39.95Heaven’s Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War. Historians have long attributed the relatively flexible system of race relations in pre–Civil War East... more...
Keeping the Faith
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 161.00An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city; this study attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic pressure to improve their situation and force politicians... more...
Atlas of Race, Ancestry, and Religion in 21st-Century Florida
UPF 2002; US$ 34.95This highly detailed study of Florida?s population focuses on where selected racial, ancestral, and religious groups live in Florida, where they lived previously, and why they chose to settle where they are. more...
50 Quick USA State Facts
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 2.99Do you know what all 50 states in the USA are? Do you know facts such as the capital of each state? Do you know the state flower or bird? All this and many more facts are inside this interesting quick fact book of 300 interesting USA State facts. more...







