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245 10 $aTropic of hopes :$bCalifornia, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929 /$cHenry Knight.
260 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$cc2013.
300 $axii, 266 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-254) and index.
505 0 $a"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.
520 $aAn 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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