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.
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