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Libris | November 2017

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea Jack E. Davis Jack E. Davis, professor of history and sustainability studies, has won the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction for his environmental history book, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. The $50,000 prize, given by literary publication Kirkus Reviews, honors exceptional books that meet Kirkus […]

Libris | August 2017

Perpetua’s Journey Jennifer Rea Jennifer Rea, associate professor of classics, is the second Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty member to collaborate with illustrator Liz Clarke for a graphic history book. Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua’s Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic history […]

Libris | June 2017

Tacitus Victoria Emma Pagan Victoria Pagán’s latest book, titled Tacitus, describes the works of the historian of the same name, which means “silenced.” The greatest of Roman historians, Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56–117 CE) studied rhetoric in Rome. His rhetorical and oratorical gifts are evident throughout his most substantial works, the incomplete but still remarkable Annals […]

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The Sound of Silence

Victoria Emma Pagán of UF Classics publishes new book about Roman historian Tacitus.

Libris | March 2016

“ The Medieval Risk-Reward Society Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages Will Hasty The Medieval Risk-Reward Society: Courts, Adventure, and Love in the European Middle Ages offers a study of adventure and love in the European Middle Ages focused on the poetry of authors such as Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, […]

Libris | June 2016

Encyclopedia of the Yoruba Edited by Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi The Yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries include biographies […]

Libris | May 2016

Defining Duty in the Civil War Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front J. Matthew Gallman The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war […]

Libris | February 2016

Chica Lit Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century Tace Hedrick This study illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and especially commodification shape the genre of “chica lit,” that is, chick lit written by Latina authors with Latina characters. Chica lit is produced and marketed in the same ways as contemporary […]

Libris – December 2015

Early Medieval Chinese Texts Cynthia L Chennault Languages, Literatures, and Cultures A guide to primary sources that date from China’s early medieval period (late third through sixth centuries) and to later anthologies or reference works concerning them. Ninety-three essays, arranged alphabetically by title, discuss authorship, contents, history of editions, traditional commentaries and assessments, modern scholarship, […]

Libris – October 2015

Traveling in French Sylvie Blum-Reid Languages, Literatures, and Cultures This book covers different travel modes and tropes at play in French cinema since 1980 to the present day. It follows the archetypal figure of the traveler and the way these journeys are ‘performed.’ Films travel for us, spectators, and we in turn virtually take off […]

Libris – July 2015

Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power Jeffrey D. Needell Jeffrey D. Needell, Professor and Affiliate Professor of Latin American Studies. Available from University Press of Florida For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world’s largest economies for the last twenty years. […]

Libris – June 2015

Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front (Civil War America) J. Matthew Gallman J. Matthew Gallman, Professor of History. Available from Amazon. The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print […]

Libris – May 2015

Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous Brigitte Weltman-Aron Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Associate Professor in French. Available from Columbia University Press Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Hélène Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise […]

Libris – April 2015

Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (Uncivil Wars) edited by J. Matthew Gallman J. Matthew Gallman, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. Lens of War, grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and […]

Libris – March 2015

Unpopular Sovereignty: Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization edited by Luise White Luise White, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not […]

Libris – February 2015

The Male Clock: A Futuristic Novel about a Fertility Crisis, Gender Politics, and Identity edited by William Marsiglio William Marsiglio, Professor in Sociology and Criminology & Law. Available from Sense Publishers As speculative fiction informed by social science and biomedical perspectives, The Male Clock propels readers into a futuristic, yet believable world transformed by SGEV […]

Libris – November 2014

Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century Sean Patrick Adams Sean Patrick Adams, Professor in History. Available from Amazon. Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in […]

Libris – October 2014

Palms and People in the Amazon Nigel Smith Nigel Smith, Professor Emeritus in Geography. Available from Springer. This book explores the degree to which landscapes have been enriched with palms by human activities and the importance of palms for the lives of people in the region today and historically. Palms are a prominent feature of […]

Libris – September 2014

Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches Norman J.W. Goda Norman J.W. Goda, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Center for Jewish Studies. Available from Berghahn Books. For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the […]

Libris – July 2014

What it Takes to be a Translator: Theory and Practice Alexander Burak Alexander Burak, Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Center for Jewish Studies. Available from Berghahn Books. Berghahn Books, Assistant Professor of Russian in Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Available from Amazon. The complexity of translating prose fiction cannot be grasped […]