Founded in 1945, the University Press of Florida is the official publisher of the State University System of Florida. UPF has published over 2,500 books since its inception and currently releases approximately 80 new titles each year. Its publishing strengths include archaeology, history, literature, Latin American studies, African American studies, space studies, sustainability, and Florida history and culture. UPF engages educators, students, and discerning readers by producing works of global significance, regional importance, and lasting value.
University Press of Florida also includes the imprint, University of Florida Press.
The Palmetto Book
Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
In this fascinating journey through the natural and cultural history of the palmetto, Jono Miller offers surprising facts and dispels common myths about an important native plant that remains largely misunderstood.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Art of Birds
Grace and Motion in the Wild
- Copyright year: 2021
Florida Scrub-Jay
Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird
With a writer’s eye and an explorer’s spirit, Mark Walters travels the state to report on the natural history and current predicament of Florida’s flagship bird, providing a portrait of a species on the brink.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Gulf South
An Anthology of Environmental Writing
Reaching from Texas to Florida and featuring a diverse array of voices from the past 100 years, this collection of environmental writing about the Gulf South region enriches how we understand the relationship between people and the rapidly changing ecology of the Gulf.
Atlantic Passages
Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
- Copyright year: 2021
Finding Fairness
From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists
Providing a sweeping, archaeologically grounded view of human history, Justin Jennings explores the origins, endurance, and elasticity of ideas about fairness and how these ideas have shaped the development of societies at critical moments over the last 20,000 years.
Onstage with Martha Graham
- Copyright year: 2021
Revolting Things
An Archaeology of Shameful Histories and Repulsive Realities
In this book, Paul Mullins examines a wide variety of material objects and landscapes that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us, looking at the way the material world shapes how we imagine, express, and negotiate difficult historical experiences.
- Copyright year: 2021
Teodoro Moscoso and Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap
- Copyright year: 2020
James Monroe
A Republican Champion
Despite serving his country for 50 years and being among the most qualified men to hold the office of president, James Monroe is an oft-forgotten Founding Father. In this book, Brook Poston reveals how Monroe attempted to craft a legacy for himself as a champion of American republicanism.
- Copyright year: 2019
Illustrated Plants of Florida and the Coastal Plain
Updated with over 200 new illustrations as well as current plant names and taxonomies, this volume is an indispensable identification guide to nearly 1,400 species of plants, both common and rare, found in Florida and neighboring coastal states.
- Copyright year: 2020