Updating this new edition through the 1990s, Muir brings the story of the frontier post transformed by Flagler, Tuttle, and a host of near-legendary figures and events to a new century of readers. To those who reflect on Muir's colorful epilogue, the city's primitive origins barely 100 years ago will seem improbable, the characters and events of the boom, crash, and war years astonishing, and the ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: HELEN MUIR

This history of St Petersburg places the town within the larger context of urbanization and American history generally.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: Raymond Arsenault

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: Edgar Canter Brown

This is a personal narrative as well as a book about Miami at the moment in the mid-1980s when the transformation of the city by its Cuban exile population was achieving critical mass. Rieff looks at Miami as America's New Havana, with a nod to the image fostered by TV's "Miami Vice" - an easy-going recital of his visits with Miami's most influential Cuban leaders, ranging from moderates to ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: DAVID RIEFF

'I had met only two or three of the neighboring Crackers when I realized the isolation had done something to these people... they have a primal quality against their background of jungle hammock, moss-hung against the tremendous silence of the scrub country. The only ingredients of their lives are the elemental things.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: J. T. GLISSON

Sarasota's distinction today as a vibrant capital of culture springs from the calculated ambition of a handful of early residents--celebrities who spearheaded the city's destiny. Their vision and resources transformed a quaint fishing village on the Gulf coast of Florida into a glamorous resort town and international art center--a story told here, with full-color photographs, for the first time. ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: PAT RINGLING BUCK, MARCIA CORBINO, KEVIN DEAN

Modern Florida began among a group of Yankee reformers at the end of the Civil War, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and her brother Charles. This book tells the story of the group, and of their designs for a postwar Florida.

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: John T. Foster, Sarah Whitmer Foster

With 189 photographs in text, 38 in full color.

Manufacturer: Knopf
Written By: Ann Armbruster

Manufacturer: University of Tampa Press
Written By: Canter Brown, Barbara Gray Brown

This first modern study of the history of Jacksonville in the Progressive Era recounts a tale of two cities. In the first third of the twentieth century, a prospering white Jacksonville dominated the urban landscape of Florida and influenced state politics. At the same time an oppressed black Jacksonville, half of the city’s population, lived in poverty. Between the Great Fire of 1901 and ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
Written By: JAMES B. CROOKS