MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2013015086
003 DLC
005 20140618080939.0
008 130419s2013 flua b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2013015086
020 $a9780813044811 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHC107.F6$bK58 2013
082 00 $a330.9759$223
100 1 $aKnight, Henry,$d1982-
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 -- Conclusion: Beyond America's tropic of hopes.
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.
651 0 $aFlorida$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aFlorida$xPopulation$xHistory.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xPopulation$xHistory.
651 0 $aFlorida$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xSocial conditions.