"A Florida Quincentennial Book." "Previously published as The New History of Florida." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Michael Gannon -- Original inhabitants / Jerald T. Milanich -- First European contacts / Michael Gannon -- The land they found / Paul E. Hoffman -- Settlement and survival / Eugene Lyon -- Republic of Spaniards, Republic of Indians / Amy Turner Bushnell -- The missions of Spanish Florida / John H. Hann -- Raids, Sieges, and international wars / Daniel L. Schafer -- Pensacola, 1686-1763 / William S. Coker -- British rule in the Floridas / Robin F. A. Fabel and Daniel L. Schafer -- The second Spanish period in the two Floridas / Susan Richbourg Parker and William S. Coker -- Free and enslaved / Jane Landers -- Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee peoples / Brent R. Weisman -- U.S. territory and state / Daniel L. Schafer -- The Civil War, 1861-1865 / Robert A. Taylor -- Reconstruction and renewal, 1865-1877 / Jerrell H. Shofner -- The first developers / Thomas Graham -- Fortune and misfortune: The paradoxical 1920s / William W. Rogers -- The Great Depression / William W. Rogers -- World War II / Gary R. Mormino -- Florida by nature: a survey of extrahuman historical agency / Jack E. Davis -- The maritime heritage of Florida / Della A. Scott-Ireton and Amy M. Mitchell-Cook -- Florida politics: the state evolves into one of the nation's premier political battlegrounds / Susan A. MacManus and David R. Colburn -- Florida's African American experience: the twentieth century and beyond / Larry Eugene Rivers -- Immigration and ethnicity in Florida history / Raymond A. Mohl and George E. Pozzetta -- Boom, bust, and uncertainty: a social history of modern Florida / Raymond A. Mohl and Gary R. Mormino.
Summary:
The definitive history of Florida from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Revised and updated with 15 revised chapters and three completely new ones.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.