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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE DE SOTO CHRONICLES: THE EXPEDITION OF HERNANDO DE SOTO TO NORTH AMERICA IN 1539-1543, 2 volumes, edited by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Edward C. Moore, reviewed by Marvin T. Smith; LOOKING FOR DESOTO: A SEARCH THROUGH THE SOUTH FOR THE SPANIARD’s TRAIL, by Joyce Rockwood Hudson, reviewed by John F. Scarry; THE SPANISH MISSIONS OF LA FLORIDA, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan, reviewed by John L. Kessell; THE CREEK, by J. T. Glisson, reviewed by Kathryn Hall Proby; RINGLING: THE FLORIDA YEARS, 1911-1936, by David C. Weeks, reviewed by Janet Snyder Matthews; FARM SECUIUTY ADMINISTRATION …


The Other Side Now: What Blanding Prisoners Of War Told The Wehrmacht, Robert D. Billinger, Jr. Mar 2022

The Other Side Now: What Blanding Prisoners Of War Told The Wehrmacht, Robert D. Billinger, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Fifty years after the arrival of German prisoners of war in Florida their story is still little known.1 Admittedly their presence was minimal since only about 4,000 out of the 378,000 German prisoners who spent time in America were detained in the state. Florida was one of forty-five states with POWs, and the base camp at Camp Blanding, with its fifteen side camps, was only one of 155 base camps in the continental United States.


Samuel Proctor, Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, 1963-1993: A Tribute, Michael Gannon Mar 2022

Samuel Proctor, Editor, Florida Historical Quarterly, 1963-1993: A Tribute, Michael Gannon

Florida Historical Quarterly

In any enumeration of American historians of Florida who have significantly advanced the craft and expanded the field, one would name George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820-1906), our state’s first serious historian in the English language and charter member of the Historical Society of Florida in 1856; Thomas Buckingham Smith (1810-1871), first American scholar to collect and copy documentary materials for the history of Florida from archives in Spain; Woodbury Lowery (1853- 1906), whose two volumes, The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States,1 first placed Florida historiography on a professional footing and established standards of research and citation …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FLORIDA: A SHORT HISTORY, by Michael Gannon, reviewed by Paul S. George; ATLAS OF FLORIDA, edited by Edward A. Fernald and Elizabeth Purdum, reviewed by John R. Dunkle; HERNANDO DE SOTO AND THE INDIANS OF FLORIDA, by Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson, reviewed by Ignacio Avellaneda; MISSIONS TO THE CALUSA, edited and translated by John H. Hann, reviewed by Robert A. Matter; CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE DOMAIN OF THE CALUSA, edited by William H. Marquardt, reviewed by Brent R. Weisman; COLUMBUS WAS LAST: FROM 200,000 B.C. TO 1492, A HERETICAL HISTORY OF WHO WAS FIRST, by Patrick Huyghe, …


"Florida And The British Investor Revisited": The William Moore Angas Papers At The University Of Florida, Frank Orser Mar 2022

"Florida And The British Investor Revisited": The William Moore Angas Papers At The University Of Florida, Frank Orser

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his 1954 article Alfred P. Tischendorf discussed briefly the role of fifteen British-owned companies in Florida around the turn of the century. 1 He concluded that these enterprises were devoted to development and attracting British immigrants. Generally little is known about British business practices in Florida since very few records exist in the United States. Details about two of the larger English companies, the Land Mortgage Bank and the Florida Syndicate, can now be examined through their business files, recently acquired by the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida and accessioned as the William Moore Angas …


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting, Journal Issues, Awards and Prizes, News, Meetings


William Tecumseh Sherman's Introduction To War, 1840-1842: Lesson For Action, Jane F. Lancaster Mar 2022

William Tecumseh Sherman's Introduction To War, 1840-1842: Lesson For Action, Jane F. Lancaster

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Tecumseh Sherman graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1840, while the United States Army was fighting the Second Seminole War. About three months later this young second lieutenant, an Ohio native, received his first assignment as an officer, and joined the Third Artillery in Florida. Sherman spent the next seventeen months serving at three posts— Fort Pierce, Fort Lauderdale, and Picolata— from which he scouted swamps to find elusive Indians, led an expedition to bring in Coacoochee (Wild Cat)— one of the most colorful Seminole leaders— and commanded a supply depot. By …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FLORIDA IN THE XVITH CENTURY, DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST, by María Antonia Sáinz, reviewed by Paul E. Hoffman; PIRATES AND PRIVATEERS OF THE CARIBBEAN, by Jenifer Marx, reviewed by Light Townsend Cummins; THE BUSINESS OF MAY NEXT: JAMES MADISON AND THE FOUNDING, by William Lee Miller, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789: VOLUME 19, AUGUST 1, 1782-MARCH 11, 1783, edited by Paul H. Smith, Gerald W. Gawalt, and Ronald M. Gephart, reviewed by Robert M. Calhoon; AFRICANS IN COLONIAL LOUISIANA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRO-CREOLE CULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, reviewed by Gilbert …


The Hybridization Of Home: Establishing Place Between The Garrison And The Wilderness In Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative, Brooke M. Weltch Mar 2022

The Hybridization Of Home: Establishing Place Between The Garrison And The Wilderness In Mary Rowlandson's (1682) Captivity Narrative, Brooke M. Weltch

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Scholarship surrounding captivity narratives long agrees that the psychological and philosophical beliefs of their authors lend insight into the contemporaneous hegemonic power structures through literary forms. Looking beyond these forms to the places they describe, however, illustrates the extent to which cultural perceptions infiltrate even the mere relationships that individuals have with their environment as well as the material structures surrounding them. I focus the role of place in Mary Rowlandson’s narrative, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God (1682). I argue that Rowlandson forms an attachment with the wigwam on account of her traumatic experiences while in captivity. Her displacement …


Wages Of Resistance: A Consideration Of Time In Jessica Hagedorn’S Dogeaters, Laura A. Wright Mar 2022

Wages Of Resistance: A Consideration Of Time In Jessica Hagedorn’S Dogeaters, Laura A. Wright

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

Using the formal elements of Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn offers a pointed critique of class. Bringing Karl Marx’s discussion of time from Capital into conversation with Gèrard Genette’s narratological essay “Order, Duration and Frequency” I argue that Hagedorn’s depiction of time deliberately undermines the systems of power in the novel. Drawing particularly on Genette’s conceptualization of duration and frequency, I examine Hagedorn’s depictions of men and women at work, specifically the characters of Romeo Rosales and Trinidad Gamboa. Romeo and Trinidad are seldom mentioned in criticism of Hagedorn’s text, but these characters demonstrate Hagedorn’s attention to the working-class and serve …


Orientalism Restated In The Era Of Covid-19, Joey Kim Mar 2022

Orientalism Restated In The Era Of Covid-19, Joey Kim

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

This essay bridges a gap between an analysis of anti-Asian targeting and an analysis of Orientalism. Because histories of Orientalism and anti-Asian targeting pre-date the current moment, I demonstrate the centrality of Orientalism to the evolution of xenophobic language and sentiment in U.S.-foreign historical relations. I recount instances of anti-Asian, xenophobic, and “Yellow-Peril” rhetoric in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, I examine the racialization of COVID-19 as a trope of orientalism. This racialization, I argue, places the Asian-presenting body in a state of heightened visibility, precarity, and susceptibility to plunder. The newfound precarity of the …


Trusting In Narrative: An Interview With Susan Choi, Noelle Brada-Williams Mar 2022

Trusting In Narrative: An Interview With Susan Choi, Noelle Brada-Williams

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

No abstract provided.


Ethical-Reparative Reconfigurations Of The Literary Today, André Cechinel Mar 2022

Ethical-Reparative Reconfigurations Of The Literary Today, André Cechinel

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This essay aims to debate the evidence of an ethical-reparative function for literature and literary studies today. Therefore, it is divided into two fundamental moments, two argumentative channels that, without a totalizing intention, point out the general perspective of the current, changing, stuation. On the one hand, the literature of the 20th century is presented through the image of a supposed negativity or radical intransitivity, capable of “undoing the work” in its “aesthetics of suppression.” On the other hand, from an introductory debate around some of the places of transitivity envisioned for literature at the beginning of the 21th century, …


“It Is Not All That Bad”—Hitler And Identity-Building In Er Ist Wieder Da (Look Who’S Back), Yuan Xue Mar 2022

“It Is Not All That Bad”—Hitler And Identity-Building In Er Ist Wieder Da (Look Who’S Back), Yuan Xue

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In Germany, multiculturalism and “leading culture” (Leitkultur) are a pair of closely connected but opposite concepts. Multiculturalism has been accused of being the main reason why culture loses its core cohesion. Despite the persistence of calls for a leading culture in Germany in recent years, many scholars argue that the concept is also problematic. A monopolistic leading culture may be hard to realize in an already pluralistic Europe. I argue that the choice between the two reflects the dilemma of the establishment of German cultural identity. Focusing on the German bestseller Er ist wieder da (Look Who’s Back, 2012), this …


“Passive Revolutions” After The Crisis Of Globalization: Gramsci And The Current Culture Of Populism, Yuri Brunello Mar 2022

“Passive Revolutions” After The Crisis Of Globalization: Gramsci And The Current Culture Of Populism, Yuri Brunello

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article compares the ways in which two scholars, the anthropologist Kate Crehan and the philosopher Diego Fusaro, analyze Gramsci’s thought, verifying its current relevance and effectiveness in interpreting populism. In Crehan’s recent Gramscian studies the categories of senso comune and buon senso become crucial. Crehan utilizes categories such as “culture” and senso comune to explain both the Tea Party experience and Donald Trump’s election. Fusaro, on the contrary, is an Italian public intellectual who declares himself a sovereignist and who often includes, among the theoretical references of Italian contemporary sovereignism, the author of Quaderni del carcere. In the …


The Brazilian System Of Television, Or How To Get A President, Tauan F. Tinti Mar 2022

The Brazilian System Of Television, Or How To Get A President, Tauan F. Tinti

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The purpose of this essay is to draw attention to some perhaps unexpected affinities between a considerably expressive segment of the Brazilian culture industry that for several reasons seems to usually fly under most interpretive radars and a certain regressive frame of mind that is becoming increasingly manifest and now holds both considerable political power and a surprisingly firm grip over a portion of the population whose size is still unclear. The following remarks and associations gesture tentatively at what could be preliminarily defined as a constellation of cultural junk being outlined, its shape against the night sky sometimes resembling …


Introduction: A Return To The Bad Old Times, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Fernando Urueta Mar 2022

Introduction: A Return To The Bad Old Times, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Fernando Urueta

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

SPANISH PATHWAYS IN FLORIDA: 1492-1992, edited by Ann L. Henderson and Gary R. Mormino, reviewed by Luis Rafael Arana; HEAVY ARTILLERY AND LIGHT INFANTRY: A HISTORY OF THE 1ST FLORIDA SPECIAL BATTALION & 10TH INFANTRY, C.S.A., by Don Hillhouse, reviewed by William Nulty; JACKSONVILLE AFTER THE FIRE, 1901-1919: A NEW SOUTH CITY, by James B. Crooks, reviewed by Raymond Arsenault; IDELLA: MARJORIE RAWLINGS’ “PERFECT MAID,” by Idella Parker with Mary Keating, reviewed by Jim Haskins; SPANISH OBSERVERS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1783, by Light Townsend Cummins, reviewed by Sherry Johnson; SACRED REVOLT: THE MUSKOGEE STRUGGLE FOR A NEW WORLD, by …


Joseph Urban's Palm Beach Architecture, Donald W. Curl Mar 2022

Joseph Urban's Palm Beach Architecture, Donald W. Curl

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Paris Singer established the Everglades Club, he changed forever the nature of Palm Beach as a winter resort. Until 1918 social life centered on the Flagler hotels and the Beach Club, Colonel Edward Bradley’s gambling casino. In the period after World War I, when growing wealth allowed America’s middle class to plan winter vacations, society found its exclusiveness threatened. Almost anyone who could afford it could register at the Royal Poinciana, the Breakers, or the Palm Beach Hotel. The Everglades Club, with its expensive restricted membership, allowed for a new definition of society in the winter resort.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

EXCAVATIONS ON THE FRANCISCAN FRONTIER: ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE FIG SPRINGS MISSION, by Brent Richards Weisman, reviewed by Rochelle A. Marrinan; THE FRENCH THORN: RIVAL EXPLORERS IN THE SPANISH SEA, 1682-1762, by Robert S. Weddle, reviewed by Light Townsend Cummins; LACHLAN MCGILLIVRAY, INDIAN TRADER: THE SHAPING OF THE SOUTHERN COLONIAL FRONTIER, by Edward J. Cashin, reviewed by Robin F. A. Fabel; THE PAPERS OF JOHN C. CALHOUN, VOLUME XX: OCTOBER -DECEMBER 1844, edited by Clyde N. Wilson, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty; A FAMILY VENTURE: MEN AND WOMEN ON THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER, by Joan E. Cashin, reviewed by Janet Allured; ATLANTIC …


Philadelphia Story: Florida Gives William Bartram A Second Chance, Charlotte M. Porter Mar 2022

Philadelphia Story: Florida Gives William Bartram A Second Chance, Charlotte M. Porter

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Bartram’s book, Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida . . ., published in 1791, presented the most “consistent aesthetic theory produced in America up to his day.“ 1 Two hundred years later, appreciation of this complex work requires an understanding of the author’s intellectual growth, for the Travels is both a volume of natural history and autobiography.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

AMERICA’S ANCIENT CITY, SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE, 1565-1763, edited with an introduction by Kathleen A. Deagan, reviewed by Susan R. Parker; JACKSONVILLE: RIVERPORT-SEAPORT, by George E. Buker, reviewed by James B. Crooks; SEMINOLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SURVEY, PHASE I: NORTHERN BIG CYPRESS, by Robert Carr and Patsy West, reviewed by John W. Griffin; SHIPWRECK AND ADVENTURES OF MONSIEUR PIERRE VIAUD, translated and edited by Robin F. A. Fabel, reviewed by Light Townsend Cummins; INSEPARABLE LOYALTY: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BULL, by Geraldine M. Meroney, reviewed by Phinizy Spalding; THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS, VOLUME ELEVEN: JANUARY 5, 1776-NOVEMBER 1, 1777, edited …


Political Leadership Among The Natives Of Spanish Florida, John H. Hann Mar 2022

Political Leadership Among The Natives Of Spanish Florida, John H. Hann

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the first Europeans arrived off Florida’s coasts the land was not uninhabited virgin territory but was occupied by many distinct peoples organized into flourishing, complex, chiefdom-level societies of a non-egalitarian nature. Those societies included the Calusa of the Gulf coast from the Charlotte Harbor area southward to the tip of the Florida peninsula; Tocobaga and others who occupied the shores of Tampa Bay and their hinterland; Ais of the Indian River area and its hinterland; various autonomous Timucua-speaking groups of south Georgia and north Florida from the east coast westward to the Aucilla, Withlacoochee, and Oklawaha rivers; Apalachee whose …


Reconstruction And Analysis Of The 1513 Discovery Voyage Of Juan Ponce De León, Douglas T. Peck Mar 2022

Reconstruction And Analysis Of The 1513 Discovery Voyage Of Juan Ponce De León, Douglas T. Peck

Florida Historical Quarterly

The long and eventful discovery voyage of Juan Ponce de León, the Spanish conquistador and explorer, has not received the amount of in-depth study and analysis that this historically significant voyage so richly deserves. Perhaps a reason for this can be found in the fact that sixteenth-century (and later) historians, in dwelling on the fact that the largely apocryphal purpose of the voyage was to find a fountain of youth, perverted the factual reporting of the real purpose of the voyage and its several significant discoveries. This distorted version continues in many contemporary history books because of the proclivity of …


The Search For The Seven Cities And Early American Exploration, George E. Buker Mar 2022

The Search For The Seven Cities And Early American Exploration, George E. Buker

Florida Historical Quarterly

When the Moors overran the Iberian peninsula at the opening of the eighth century, legend has it that the bishop of Oporto in Portugal led six other bishops and their followers westward across the Atlantic. He settled upon an island farther west than any sailor from Europe had ever been before, and he named it Antilla (which has had a variety of spellings). He allegedly burned his ships so that no one could return with news of his refuge. He assigned each bishop a portion of the island, and soon there were seven flourishing Christian communities established on Antilla. In …


Beyond The Martyrs Of Florida: The Versatile Career Of Luis Gerónimo De Oré, Noble David Cook Mar 2022

Beyond The Martyrs Of Florida: The Versatile Career Of Luis Gerónimo De Oré, Noble David Cook

Florida Historical Quarterly

The general commissioner for the Franciscan missions in Florida, Friar Luis Gerónimo de Oré, arrived in St. Augustine in 1614 where he conducted a brief ecclesiastical inspection before returning to Cuba. Oré came again to Florida in late 1616, reaching St. Augustine on November 6. Armed with powers of visitation and confirmation, he inspected the Franciscan missions in the area and confirmed hundreds of converts. He also presided over the First General Chapter Meeting of the Franciscan Order in the province. During his Florida travels, Oré collected reports on earlier attempts of conversion, and before returning to Europe he compiled …


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, Prizes and Awards, Southern Historical Association, Call for Papers, Announcements and Activities, Florida History Fair


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

THE FLORIDA READER: VISIONS OF PARADISE FROM 1530 TO THE PRESENT, edited by Maurice O’Sullivan, Jr., and Jack C. Lane, reviewed by Marjory Bartlett Sanger; PLANT'S PALACE: HENRY PLANT AND THE TAMPA BAY HOTEL, by James W. Covington and Tommy L. Thompson, reviewed by Thomas Graham; SPEAKING OF FLORIDA, by William Pohl and John Ames, reviewed by Stuart McIver; A COLLEGE TELLS ITS STORY: AN ORAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE, 1963-1991, by Robert B. Gentry, reviewed by George Hallam; CONCHTOWN USA: BAHAMIAN FISHERFOLK IN RIVIERA BEACH, FLORIDA, by Charles C. Foster, reviewed by Thelma Peters; GOVERNMENT AND …


Unpretending Service: The James L. Davis, The Tahoma, And The East Gulf Blockading Squadron, David J. Coles Mar 2022

Unpretending Service: The James L. Davis, The Tahoma, And The East Gulf Blockading Squadron, David J. Coles

Florida Historical Quarterly

The United States Navy’s primary mission during the Civil War was to blockade the Confederate coastline. To accomplish this, the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, East Gulf, and West Gulf Blockading Squadrons were established.1 Perhaps the least known of these was the East Gulf Blockading Squadron (EGBS), which was created January 20, 1862, and began independent operations a month later on February 22. Charged with responsibility for the blockade of the Florida peninsula from Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic coast to St. Andrew Bay in the Gulf of Mexico, the EGBS operated for three and one-half years. During that time, the …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A History of Music & Dance in Florida, 1565-1865, by Wiley L. Housewright, reviewed by Patricia C. Griffin; Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928, by Edward A. Mueller, reviewed by Lynn Willoughby; Zora in Florida, edited by Steve Glassman and Kathryn Lee Seidel, reviewed by Charlotte D. Hunt; Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788, by Patricia C. Griffin, reviewed by Charles W. Arcade; Florida Archeology: San Pedro y San Pablo de Patale: A Seventeenth-Century Spanish Mission in Leon County, Florida, by B. Calvin Jones, John Hann, and John F. …