Tropic of hopes: California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise
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1. Verfasser: Knight, Henry (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Gainesville University Press of Florida [2013]
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
"Our" tropical lands: reinventions of California and Florida after the Civil War -- A climate for health and wealth: the lure of tropical leisure on American soil -- The fruits of labor: boosterist visions of republican renewal and semi-tropical agriculture -- Desert and swamp: the conquest of tropical nature in the progressive era -- "New edens of the Saxon home-seeker": Los Angeles, Miami, and semi-tropical urban life
An examination of how land barons, railroad kingpins, and journalists, among others, "sold" Americans on the idea of Florida and California as a paradise within reach
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ISBN:9780813048413
0813048419
9780813044811
0813044812

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