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Florida's Miracle Strip
University Press of Mississippi 2004; US$ 125.00Since World War II, tourists have flocked to Florida's northwest Gulf Coast and sun and fun spots at Panama City Beach, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola Beach. Every year those visitors number in the millions. For those who long to recall how the vacationland appeared thirty, forty, or even fifty years ago, Tim Hollis has written Florida's Miracle... more...
The Society of Equality
University of New Mexico Press 2011; US$ 29.95Wood argues that the "œSociety of Equality" set a new standard for democratic thought and action in Chilean history and was arguably the most democratic political association of its era in all of Latin America. more...
Jeb Bush
University Press of America 2009; US$ 36.99This book examines the conservative theory that guided Jeb Bush's behavior and the aggressive manner in which he used the Office of Governor to pursue his goals. It offers insight into his motivations and competencies and analyzes the extent to which his self proclaimed 'revolution' achieved its goals in Florida. more...
The Swamp
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 17.00The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse... more...
Creating an Old South
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 28.95Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South. Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern states began settling the land that became Jackson... more...
If It Takes All Summer
University of Alabama Press 2008; US$ 29.95This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation’s oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil rights bill the center piece of his domestic policy,... more...
Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial Southeast America, 16501725
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial southeast America. This study is the first to tell the full story of this rivalry. more...
Sweet Cane
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 22.50A look at the antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar industry of East Florida . From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing the sweetest sugar, molasses, and rum, at... more...
City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution
UPF 2003; US$ 44.95This is the story of the Cuban residents of nineteenth-century Key West, Florida, and their struggle to liberate Cuba, as told by Spanish consuls. more...
Mile Marker Zero
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 25.00True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America?s southernmost city For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation?one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane,... more...









