Tropic of hopes : California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929 /

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.

में बचाया:
ग्रंथसूची विवरण
मुख्य लेखक: Knight, Henry, 1982-
स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक ई-पुस्तक
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
विषय:
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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विषय - सूची:
  • "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.