Tropic of Hopes [Recurso electrónico] : California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929 / Henry Knight.
Tipo de material:
TextoSeries Book collections on Project MUSEDetalles de publicación: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2013. 2015)Descripción: 1 online resource (272 p.)Tipo de contenido: - texto
- con mediación
- online resource
- 9780813048413
- 0813048419
- 330.9759
- HC107.F6 K58 2013
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.
Libro Electrónico
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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