Tropic of hopes : California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929 /
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| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10763665 |
Table of Contents:
- "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.