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Author:

Gannon, Michael, 1927-

Title:

Florida : a short history / Michael Gannon.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xiii, 182 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Florida--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-165) and index.

Contents:

In the beginning -- European settlement -- Missions -- Military and civil life -- Two decades of British rule -- The second Spanish period -- The United States acquires Florida -- Territorial years and statehood -- Secession -- Reconstruction -- The Bourbon era -- Modern Florida begins -- World War I and Prohibition -- Boom in paradise -- Racism and violence -- Tropical depression -- Relief and recovery -- Industry and agriculture -- World War II -- Postwar politics -- Taking stock culturally -- Florida at midcentury -- The Pepper-Smathers campaign -- The McCarty and Collins years -- The sixties -- The seventies -- Within our memories -- The past is prologue.

Series:

Columbus quincentenary series

ISBN:

9780813026817
0813026814

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52384822

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)