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.

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主要作者: Knight, Henry, 1982-
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
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書本目錄:
  • "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.