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University Press of Florida Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929

Name: Tropic of Hopes: California, Florida, and the Selling of American Paradise, 1869-1929
Brand: University Press of Florida
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Review "A rare comparative history of tourism development, one that makes a variety of connections: between peninsular Florida and southern California, between tourist and agricultural promotion of each, and between each of these areas and the rest of their respective states."--Reviews in American History"An engaging, insightful book that offers us a cultural history of economic development in an era when health, independence, and the good life itself were being redefined."--Business History Review Product Description Examines the promotion of California and Florida from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Great Depression, a period when both states were transformed from remote, sparsely populated locales into two of the most publicised and dreamed-about destinations in America. Using the discussion of climate, geography, race and environment, to link agricultural, tourist, and urban development in these regions, Knight provides a highly original and informative account. From the Back Cover "Pushes aside the palm fronds celebrated by boosters to explain how the nineteenth-century frontiers of barren southern California and waterlogged southern Florida were reimagined as havens for American leisure and agriculture. This is the story of the birth of modern America."--Anthony J. Stanonis, author of "Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945" "A refreshingly original and subtly nuanced study of how nineteenth- and twentieth-century boosters sold Florida and California as 'semi-tropical' lands worthy of serious attention. With clarity and insight, Knight provides an instructive and provocative look at the peculiar machinations of identity formation in America."--Rebecca McIntyre, author of "Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology" After the Civil War, two states emerged as America's paradise destinations. Transformed from remote, sparsely populated locales into two of the most publicized destinations in the country, California and Florida also became the most desirable. Private companies, state agencies, and journalists all lent a hand in creating the seductive, expansionist imagery that promoted the semitropical states, selling the idea of an attainable paradise within the United States. Henry Knight examines and compares the way the two states were promoted, adding to existing historiographies on California and Florida while providing expert analysis of how railroad kingpins, land barons, agriculturalists, and chambers of commerce invented and popularized an image of these states as the American Paradise. About the Author Henry Knight is lecturer in American studies at Northumbria University.

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Brand: University Press of Florida
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813044812
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 October 2013
Listed Since: 03 January 2013

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