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Florida's Miracle Strip
University Press of Mississippi 2004; US$ 125.00Since World War II, tourists have flocked to Florida's northwest Gulf Coast and sun and fun spots at Panama City Beach, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola Beach. Every year those visitors number in the millions. For those who long to recall how the vacationland appeared thirty, forty, or even fifty years ago, Tim Hollis has written Florida's Miracle... more...
The Society of Equality
University of New Mexico Press 2011; US$ 29.95Wood argues that the "œSociety of Equality" set a new standard for democratic thought and action in Chilean history and was arguably the most democratic political association of its era in all of Latin America. more...
The Girondins of Chile
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 8.95This text tells of the influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. A Chilean writer and historian who lived during that time in Santiago relates the events. more...
Creating an Old South
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 28.95Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South. Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern states began settling the land that became Jackson... more...
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
University of Alabama Press 2008; US$ 24.95Social and political history of the modern South. This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform. History... more...
If It Takes All Summer
University of Alabama Press 2008; US$ 29.95This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation’s oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil rights bill the center piece of his domestic policy,... more...
The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828 is a beautifully crafted history of the evolution of the state written by Thomas Perkins Abernethy in 1922. The work shows how Alabama grew out of the Mississippi Territory and discusses the economic and political development during the years just before and just after Alabama became a state. Abernethy’s... more...
Sketches of Alabama
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 24.00Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs... more...
Sweet Cane
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 22.50A look at the antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar industry of East Florida . From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing the sweetest sugar, molasses, and rum, at... more...
City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution
UPF 2003; US$ 44.95This is the story of the Cuban residents of nineteenth-century Key West, Florida, and their struggle to liberate Cuba, as told by Spanish consuls. more...









