Tropic of hopes : California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise / Henry Knight.
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TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- HC107 .T767 2013
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Includes bibliographies 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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