University
Press of Florida
André Michaux in Florida:
An Eighteenth Century Botanical Journey
Walter Kingsley Taylor and Eliane M. Norman
The name Michaux often appears
in the plant names of Florida, from the endangered yellow violets that grow
wild in the panhandle to the Florida rosemary of the scrub. Andre Michaux (1746-1803)
was one of the most extraordinary and dynamic individuals of early explorations
in North America and the first trained botanist to explore extensively the wilderness
east of the Mississippi River, including Spanish East Florida. This first book-length
account of Michaux's Florida exploration combines his original journal with
writings about him by later authors, historical background, and the author's
own narrative to create a multifaceted, comprehensive treatise on Michaux's
travels and discoveries in Florida.
Beginning with a biographical sketch on the life of Andre Michaux, royal botanist
for King Louis XVI of France, the authors retrace (using 16 maps) the exploratory
routes he took in Florida and recount historical events occurring in Florida
at the time. They include in full documentary form all the plants he discovered,
collected, and observed and fully assess his findings so that his contributions
can now be evaluated along with those of better-known botanists of whom much
has been written, such as John Bartram and his son William--who acknowledged
the Frenchman's abilities, writing that Michaux could traverse the same ground
that he and his father had covered and find plants that they had missed.
From a historical as well as a botanical perspective, Andre Michaux in Florida
re-creates the Florida exploration of a remarkable explorer and observer and
allows us to experience vicariously the vibrancy and joy of his journey of discovery.
Walter Kingsley Taylor is professor of biology at the University of Central
Florida, Orlando.
3/30/2002. 256pp. 6x9.
30 b&w photos, 16 maps, 3 figures, 3 appendixes, notes, bibliography, index,.
0-8130-2444-7 $39.95s
Archaeological
Studies of Gender in the Southeastern United States
Edited by Jane M. Eastman and Christopher B. Rodning
Foreword by Jerald T. Milanich, Series Editor
In the first book about the archaeology
of gender in native societies of southeastern North America, these
lively essays reconstruct the different social roles and relationships adopted
by women and men before and
after the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century. Case studies explore the ways
in which gender
differences affected people's daily lives by examining material evidence from
archaeological sites, including
grave goods, human remains, spatial configurations of burials and architecture,
and evidence for economic
specialization and the division of labor within households.
Contents
Introduction: Gender and the Archaeology of the Southeast, by Christopher B. Rodning
and Jane M.
Eastman
1. Challenges for Regendering Southeastern Prehistory, by Cheryl Claassen
2. The Gender Division of Labor in Mississippian Households: Its Role in Shaping
Production for Exchange,
by Larissa Thomas
3. Life Courses and Gender among Late Prehistoric Siouan Communities, by Jane
M. Eastman
4. Mortuary Ritual and Gender Ideology in Protohistoric Southwestern North Carolina,
by Christopher B.
Rodning
5. Those Men in the Mounds: Gender, Politics, and Mortuary Practices in Late Prehistoric
Eastern
Tennessee, by Lynne P. Sullivan
6. Piedmont Siouans and Mortuary Archaeology on the Eno River, North Carolina,
by Elizabeth I. Monahan
Driscoll, R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., and H. Trawick Ward
7. Auditory Exostoses: A Clue to Gender in Prehistoric and Historic Farming Communities
of North Carolina
and Virginia, by Patricia M. Lambert
8. Concluding Thoughts, by Janet E. Levy
Jane M. Eastman is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at East Carolina
University.
Christopher B. Rodning is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology
at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
March. 240pp. 6 X 9.
31 illustrations, 22 tables, notes, references index.
0-8130-1875-7 Cloth, $55.00s
Interpretations
of Native North American Life
Material Contributions to Ethnohistory
Edited by Michael S. Nassaney and Eric S. Johnson
Bringing together the perspectives of archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and art
historians, these
tightly integrated case studies highlight the significance of material objects
to the study and
interpretation of Native North American culture, history, and identity.
Contents
Part I. Ethnogenesis: The Creation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Ethnic
Identity
1. Ritual and Material Culture as Keys to Cultural Continuity: Native American
Interaction with
Europeans in Eastern Arkansas, 1541-1682, by Kathleen H. Cande
2. The Identity of Stadacona and Hochelaga: Comprehension and Conflict, by James
F. Pendergast
3. Echoing the Past: Reconciling Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Views of Ho-Chunk
(Winnebago) Ethnogenesis, by John P. Staeck
4. The Politics of Pottery: Material Culture and Political Process among Algonquians
of 17th-Century
Southern New England, by Eric S. Johnson
5. Emblems of Ethnicity: Ribbonwork Garments from the Great Lakes Region, by Susan
M. Neill
Part II. Change and Continuity in Daily Life
6. François' House, a Significant Pedlars' Post on the Saskatchewan, by Alice
Beck Kehoe
7. Improving Our Understanding of Native American Acculturation through the Archaeological
Record: An Example from the Mono Basin of Eastern California, by Brooke S. Arkush
8. Cache Pits: Ethnohistory, Archaeology, and the Continuity of Tradition, by
Sean B. Dunham
9. Maple Sugaring in Prehistory: Tapping the Sources, by Carol I. Mason and Margaret
B. Holman
10. Archaeology of a Contact-Period Plateau Salishan Village at Thompson's River
Post, Kamloops,
British Columbia, by Catherine C. Carlson
11. Obtaining Information via Defective Documents: A Search for the Mandan in
George Catlin's
Paintings, by Mark S. Parker Miller
Part III. Ritual, Iconography, and Ideology
12. Images of Women in Native American Iconography, by Larissa A. Thomas
13. Tlingit Human Masks as Documents of Culture Change and Continuity, by Barbara
Brotherton
14. One Island, Two Places: Archaeology, Memory, and Meaning in a Rhode Island
Town, by Paul
A. Robinson
15. Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Tandem: Interpreting Native American Ritual,
Ideology, and
Gender Relations in Contact-Period Southeastern New England, by Michael S. Nassaney
Michael S. Nassaney, associate professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University,
is the
editor or coeditor of four books, including The Archaeological Northeast.
Eric S. Johnson, a preservation planner at the Massachusetts Historical Commission,
has written
numerous articles and monographs on New England archaeology and ethnohistory.
"A thoughtful, disciplined, and useful work. . . . The
issue of how to interpret North American Native cultures,
in all their complexity and diversity, is one that historians,
archaeologists, and other behavioral scientists have
wrestled with for a long time. This volume is an
interesting indicator of where that struggle currently
stands."--James W. Bradley, director, Robert S.
Peabody Museum, Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts
September. 464pp. 6 X 9
78 b&w illustrations and maps, 9 tables, bibliography, index.
0-8130-1783-1 Cloth, $55.00s
The
Cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean
Edited by Conrad James and John Perivolaris
While difficult to define--and sometimes
even to locate—the Hispanic Caribbean is fraught with
tension. The region includes nations that have common histories yet very different
contemporary
political characteristics. This collection maps out the reasons behind the tensions
and looks
specifically at the distinctive causes and founding concepts of the area.
Contents
1. Fernando Ortiz and Allan Kardec: Transmigration and Transculturation, by Arcadio
Díaz Quiñones
2. Puerto Rico Afloat, by Doris Sommer
3. The Nomadic Subject in the Poetry of Julia de Burgos, by Juan G. Gelpí
4. Women, Life-writing, and National Identity in Cuba:
Excilia Saldaña’s Mi nombre: Antielegía familiar, by Conrad James
5. The Nation from De donde son los cantantes to Pájaros de la playa, by Roberto
González
Echevarría
6. Tuntún de pasa y grifería: A Cultural Project, by Carmen Vázquez Arce
7. Discovering Nicolás Guillén through Afrocentric Literary
Analysis, by Ian Isidore Smart
8. Nancy Morejón: Nation, Negritude, and Marginality, by Efraín Barradas
9. Notes on the History of Blacks in Cuba . . . and May Elegguá Be with Me, by
Manuel Granados
10. Transculturation and Integration of the Afro-Venezuelan World in the Contemporary
Venezuelan
Novel, by Jorge Marbán
11. Dominican Writers at the Crossroads: Reflections on a Conversation in Progress,
by Daisy Cocco
de Filippis
12. The Role of Science in Cuban Culture: Some Observations, by Keith Ellis
13. Traumas of Modernity in the Caribbean: Virgilio Piñera and Hector Rojas Herazo,
by Giberto
Gómez Ocampo
14. Little Stories of Caribbean History and Nationhood: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Luis Rafael
Sánchez, by John D. Perivolaris
15. Some Critical Observations on the Cult of María Lionza in Contemporary Venezuelan
Narrative,
by Lancelot Cowie
16. Cultural Ethnocentricity in Commercial Cinema: Representation and Self-Identity,
by Rodolfo B.
Popelnik
17. Breaking the Spell of Our Hallucinated Lucidity: Surveying the Caribbean Self
within Hollywood
Cinema, by Diane Accaria-Zavala
Conrad James is a lecturer in Hispanic studies at the University of Birmingham,
England.
John Perivolaris is a lecturer in Spanish American and Caribbean literatures and
cultures at the
University of Manchester, England.
"A splendid volume that develops coherently and
interconnects in many different ways. . . . The editors
have attracted the leading scholars in Latin American
cultural studies. . . . Sensitive both to history and to
current debates in literature and culture."--John King,
University of Warwick
September. 288pp. 6 X 9
Bibliography, index.
0-8130-1794-7 Cloth, $49.95s
The
French in Early Florida
In the Eye of the Hurricane
by John T. McGrath
John McGrath offers a careful reconstruction of the dramatic fate of the expeditions
that attempted
to plant a permanent French presence on North America's eastern seaboard during
the 1560s--the
first full treatment of these events from the French perspective. This campaign
became one of the
most stunning defeats in the history of European colonialism when Spanish commander
Pedro
Menéndez de Avilés destroyed France’s Fort Caroline and its relief fleet
during the late summer and
fall of 1565.
McGrath analyzes and reconstructs events as the French and the Spaniards tried
to outmaneuver
and outguess each other. The fatal weakness of the French ultimately turned out
to be the inability
of their leaders, especially Jean Ribault, to carry out orders--not, as most historians
have claimed,
that French designs were poorly conceived. By comparison, the decisiveness, ingenuity,
and
extraordinary leadership of Menéndez enabled him to defeat his rivals in the face
of extreme
adversity.
Until now, McGrath argues, this story has been told either inaccurately or incompletely.
By
scrutinizing written testimonies left by participants on both sides, he re-creates
the conditions and
perspectives of the actors involved and reevaluates how and why they made the
crucial decisions
that ended in such a bloody tragedy. Claiming that this initiative was far from
a hopeless cause, he
demonstrates that the French came tantalizingly close to wresting the east coast
of North America
from Spanish imperial control.
John T. McGrath, assistant professor of social science at Boston University’s
College of General
Studies, has written numerous articles on French and French colonial history.
"A useful, informative study, particularly to historians not
well acquainted with French colonial history. . . . [It] will
probably be the authoritative narrative of the events
surrounding Fort Caroline’s brief existence."—Gayle K.
Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton
2000. 256pp. 6 X 9
8 b&w photos, 3 maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.
0-8130-1784-X Cloth, $49.95s
Colonial
Challenges
Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775
by Robin F. A. Fabel
In this examination of British colonial
practices, Robin Fabel investigates the reactions of native
populations to British imperialism in the two decades before the American Revolution.
Specifically,
he looks at the Cherokees, the small tribes of the Mississippi, and the Black
Caribs of the Windward
Islands--all groups whose territories bordered on British settlements, all groups
who first cooperated
with and later resisted British diplomatic and military intrusions.
Fabel reveals the flaws in British imperial policies. Had they learned certain
lessons from their
experiences with native populations, he argues, they might have been more successful
in their
dealings with American colonists. He describes, too, how even small tribes could
diplomatically-–and
successfully--play British and French imperial rivals against each other.
On two significant occasions diplomacy failed and the result was war. In the Cherokee
War of
1759-61, that tribe took on but failed to defeat the British and colonial military.
In the Carib War of
1772-73, however, the Black Caribs compelled the British to retreat.
This rare glimpse into the military behavior of the Mississippi small tribes and
Fabel’s analysis of the
ways of war and details of Indian leadership benefits greatly from his use of
the Ballindalloch
archives. His focus on the crucial naval dimension of the Carib War is also a
unique feature of the
work. This study will have great appeal for readers of military narratives and
will be essential reading
for students of Native American diplomacy.
Robin F. A. Fabel is the Hollifield Professor of Southern History at Auburn University.
He is the
author of The Economy of British West Florida, a contributor to The New History
of Florida (UPF,
1996), and the editor of Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud (UPF,
1990).
October. 304pp. 6 X 9
7 b&w photos, 4 maps, bibliography, notes, index.
0-8130-1798-X Cloth, $55.00s
Colonial
Plantations and Economy in Florida
Edited by Jane G. Landers
This illustrated collection documents
the rich history of Florida’s earliest indigo, rice, and cotton
plantations, cattle ranches, timbering operations, and Atlantic commercial networks.
Based on
primary research in archives in England, Scotland, Spain, Cuba, Minorca, and Florida
as well as
upon archaeological investigations, the essays trace for the first time the relationship
of Florida to
both the Caribbean and the Atlantic economies and document Florida’s national
and international
significance in the colonial period.
Contents
Introduction, by Jane G. Landers
1. "A Swamp of an Investment"? Richard Oswald's British East Florida
Plantation Experiment, by
Daniel L. Schafer
2. Blue Gold: Andrew Turnbull's New Smyrna Plantation, by Patricia C. Griffin
3. Success through Diversification: Francis Philip Fatio's New Switzerland Plantation,
by Susan R.
Parker
4. Francisco Xavier Sánchez, Floridano Planter and Merchant, by Jane G. Landers
5. Zephaniah Kingsley's Laurel Grove Plantation, 1803-1813, by Daniel L. Schafer
6. Free Black Plantations and Economy in East Florida, 1784-1821, by Jane G. Landers
7. The Plantation System of the Florida Seminole Indians and Black Seminoles during
the Colonial
Era, by Brent R. Weisman
8. The Cattle Trade in East Florida, 1784-1821, by Susan R. Parker
9. Spanish East Florida in the Atlantic Economy of the Late 18th Century, by James
Gregory Cusick
Jane G. Landers, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, is author
of Black Society
in Spanish Florida, editor of Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas,
and coeditor of
The African American Heritage of Florida (UPF, 1995).
2000. 232pp. 6 X 9
14 b&w illustrations, 6 maps, 7 tables, bibliographic notes, appendix, index.
0-8130-1772-6 Cloth, $49.95s
Women's
Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America
by Kristine Ibsen
Kristine
Ibsen studies women’s personal narrative in colonial Spanish America, focusing
particularly on the
spiritual autobiography of the 17th and 18th centuries and offering revealing
insights into the social and political
position of cloistered women.
In Spanish American literature, women's autobiography is rooted in the hagiographic
tradition of vitae in which,
at the request of a confessor, nuns wrote about their spiritual lives in an
autobiographical form. Although not
intended for publication, these narratives, or ,vidas, often circulated informally
among other religious women, and
were indeed often written with this in mind. Simultaneously written for their
male confessor(s) and their female
peers, such texts illustrate a fascinating exercise in double-voiced discourse.
Placing these works in historical context, Ibsen examines them in terms not
only of their discursive strategies but
also of how these strategies incorporate and question prevailing social, rhetorical,
and cultural structures. On the
margins and between the lines, the vida has the potential to effect a profound
renegotiation of the terms and forms
of self-representation.
Kristine Ibsen, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at
the University of Notre Dame, is editor
of The Other Mirror: Women’s Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995 and author
of Author, Text and Reader in the
Novels of Carlos Fuentes.
December. 288pp. 6 X 9.
ISBN 0-8130-1727-0 Cloth, $49.95
November 17, 2005