Author: Tika Downey
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1404281096
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Describes the history, ecology, geography, economy, and sights of the Sunshine State, Florida.

Author: Phil Philcox
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Chock-full of statistics, recipes, photos, and helpful, fascinating stuff of, from, and about Florida.

Author: Iver A. Lund
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Ann Sullivan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781510520882
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Gary R Mormino
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487

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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 that was among those introducing new words into the American vernacular: space coast, climate control, growth management, retirement community, theme park, edge cities, shopping mall, boomburbs, beach renourishment, Interstate, and Internet. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams attempts to understand the firestorm of change that erupted into modern Florida by examining the great social, cultural, and economic forces driving its transformation. Gary Mormino ranges far and wide across the landscape and boundaries of a place that is at once America's southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean. From the capital, Tallahassee--a day's walk from the Georgia border--to Miami--a city distant but tantalizingly close to Cuba and Haiti--Mormino traces the themes of Florida's transformation: the echoes of old Dixie and a vanishing Florida; land booms and tourist empires; revolutions in agriculture, technology, and demographics; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a graying population; and the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. Beneath the iconography of popular culture is revealed a complex and complicated social framework that reflects a dizzying passage from New Spain to Old South, New South to Sunbelt.

Author: Ellias Aghili Dehnavi
Publisher: tredition
ISBN: 3347715357
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, on the Gulf Coast. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With more than 21 million inhabitants in 2019, it is the third most populous state in the country after California and Texas. With an area of 170,451 km2, Florida ranks 22nd among the federated states. Its political capital is Tallahassee, but the most populous metropolitan area is Miami, which has a population of over 6.1 million (estimated in 2017).

Author: Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780531291597
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Florida"--

Author: John Rothchild
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813018294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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"Grand reading. Rothchild's scenario deliciously underscores the bizarre quality of Florida."--Publishers Weekly "A story of rapacity and gall told with bemused admiration for the waves of visionaries and scamps who have left their mark on the Sunshine State . . . a tale of the wild, wild South in which motives, loyalties, and identities are lost in a tangle of crime and counterinsurgency."--Time A wandering Floridian who made his way home in the early 1970s, John Rothchild writes about the state with the savvy of a native and the perspective of an outsider. His personal and historical travelogue reads alternately like a litany of 20th-century ills and a Monty Python rendering of the Great American Dream. In Florida, both versions are true. Settled through the chicanery of a few enterprising brokers and real estate wizards, Rothchild's Florida is a civilization built from scratch, out of the most unusual ingredients. While much of the state seems younger than many of its inhabitants, he observes, it hosts all the modern demographic, economic, and social problems. Still, those ills don't dispel the magic of its sunshine, beaches, and exotic fauna or undermine its status as a great American myth. Told within the framework of Rothchild's travels from Miami to the Everglades, around the state and back again, Up for Grabs is part history, part travelogue, part journalism, part autobiography--a humorous and appreciative tour of a society fabricated from a state of mind and erected on land that was "ninety percent underwater ninety percent of the time." John Rothchild , a former editor of Washington Monthly, columnist for Time and Fortune, and contributor to Esquire, Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine, is author or coauthor of nine books, including A Fool and His Money and Voice of the River, the autobiography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. He lives in Miami Beach, Florida.

Author:
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Category : Ship registers
Languages : en
Pages : 2016

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Author: Vincent Virga
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762767499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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These books, produced from the archives ofthe Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Sunshine State from the collections of the Library of Congress, a foreword by Vincent Virga about the Library of Congress collection and the Florida maps, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Florida for residents, former residents, and visitors.