Florida is a story of astonishing growth, a state swelling from 500,000 residents at the outset of the 20th century to some 16 million at the end. As recently as mid-century, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Florida was the smallest state in the South. At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in the country, a megastate, inspiring the ...
This is the story of the community of Italians, Spaniards and Cubans that grew up around the cigar industry in Tampa, Florida at the beginning of the 20th century. Focusing on the Italian experience, this is a portrait of one of America's most celebrated ethnic communities.
The author tells the dramatic story of the murder of Guy Bradley, one of America's first environmentalists. Bradley, a reformed Florida plume hunter, was hired in 1902 as game warden of Monroe County, and was killed while trying to enforce a law prohibiting the capture of birds for their plumage. McIver offers a well-researched account of the ...
In "Saving South Beach", historic preservation clashes with development, as each side vies for control of South Beach. A spectrum of characters are present, from Barbara Baer Capitman, the ailing middle-aged widow who became an evangelist for the Miami Beach Art Deco district, to Abe Resnick, the millionaire Holocaust survivor determined to stop ...
In the postwar explosion of domestic tourism, Weeki Wachee Spring offered the quintessential vacation fantasy, a city of colorful mermaids in a natural crystal spring right off the West Coast highway in a sparsely inhabited 1947 Florida. Travelers headed south to playgrounds in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Tampa found Weeki Wachee a tantalizing ...
Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged. This book features essays in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida from the first explorers to the latest Hispanic migrations into Miami.
In vivid, comprehensive, and often grim detail, Invisible Empire charts 130 years of Ku Klux Klan activity in Florida, one of the Klan's most violent and enduring realms. Beginning with the chaotic days of Reconstruction, when Klansmen killed more than 150 victims in a single county, this important history describes the organization's influence on ...
This work, aimed at general readers and environmentalists alike, offers a dicussion of the formation, development and history of the Everglades, considered by many to be the most endangered ecosystem in North America. It begins with South Florida's geological origins and continues through the 20th century. Charting the effects of human ...
This volume ells the story of the 10,000 men who were "guests" of Uncle Sam in a tropical paradise that for some became a tropical hell. The German POWs, captured in Tunisia, Italy and France, were among the 378,000 Germans held as prisoners in 45 states.
In Immigrants on the Hill, Gary Mormino traces the Hill's evolution from its roots in Lombardy and Sicily to contemporary times, focusing upon those institutions that have sustained and nurtured the community. He reveals how, in work, play, religion, politics, and even bootlegging, Hill Italian-Americans have consistently encouraged ethnic pride, ...
Before he was a New York congressman and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Amos Jay Cummings covered bruins and buzzards, rednecks and racists, murderers and mosquitoes, rich soils and poor souls, for the New York Sun. In 1874, journalist Cummings was among only a handful of white people to make their way down through the Florida ...
One of Florida's most endangered river systems is the Apalachicola River and Bay basin, and it is not just the natural areas that are threatened but also the history and culture of its people. In "Voices of the Apalachicola", veteran storyteller Faith Eidse, together with the staff of the Northwest Florida Water Management District, has compiled a ...
This volume tells the story of the Stranahans of Fort Lauderdale, providing the historical context of a dynamic, ever-growing population centre. It interweaves the story of the town's founding and growth into the lives of two of its most significant pioneers and community builders.
Far from the myth of surf, sand, and orange juice, Mark Lane's snapshots of life in the Sunshine State are more likely to feature gargantuan insects than bikini-clad coeds.Lane has spent nearly thirty years as a reporter and writer for the "Daytona Beach News-Journal". Often compared to Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Jeff Klinkenberg, or Roy Blount Jr. ...
In this portrait of a man the Florida House of Representatives eulogized as the "Floridian of the Twentieth Century," Dyckman argues that the courageous moral leadership of LeRoy Collins not only spared Florida the humiliation that befell other southern states under less enlightened leaders but also was responsible for modernizing all the branches ...
This illustrated biography of one of the most energetic, corporate builders of the early 20th century traces Fisher's transformation of the swampy, South Florida landscape into a luxurious urban locale.
During the heyday of Florida theme parks, Bruce Mozert created some of the most memorable kitsch photography of the era. His underwater shots of beautiful models in crystal-clear waters were sent out on wire services and helped establish Silver Springs as Florida's premier tourist attraction. In the 1950s, his work helped lure the postwar ...
This is the story of the Cuban residents of nineteenth-century Key West, Florida, and their struggle to liberate Cuba, as told by Spanish consuls. Stebbins argues that the consuls' correspondence contained in the Key West Collection - one of the very few primary sources on Key West from 1842 to 1897 - rewrites the island's history. Drawing on ...
As the rail barons who transformed Florida pushed their lines southward, they also created a string of resort hotels to attract wealthy northerners with an appetite for balmy climates and luxurious accommodations. Susan Braden tells the story of the magnificent pleasure palaces created by Plant and Flagler and the impact of their conspicuous scale ...
"A unique social and economic history of the Seminoles and an insightful view of their cultural adaptation and cultural continuity that previously has not been appreciated or understood."-- "Florida Heritage"
Florida's Big Bend Coast is one of America's longest and wildest continuous wetlands. Seminole Indians once sought refuge from American soldiers along its shores. Today, visitors find a different kind of refuge, a refuge from a hectic world. In the first comprehensive armchair guide to this region, naturalist and explorer Doug Alderson introduces ...
It is safe to say that without railroads, Florida wouldn't be what it is today. Railroads connected the state's important cities and towns, conquered the peninsula's vast and seemingly impenetrable interior, ushered in untold numbers of settlers and tourists, and conveyed to market - faster than any previous means of transportation - the myriad ...
"Scarpaci has done an excellent job chronicling Italian American history and all Italian Americans should be proud to own a copy of this book." --Italian Tribune Italians have influenced American life since the beginning of the new Republic. Thomas Jefferson adapted the classic Italian architecture of Andrea Palladio in designing his home and the ...
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