Florida -- History

Finding Florida

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The site of vicious racial violence, including massacres, genocide, slavery, and the terrorist campaigns that undid Reconstruction, Florida is now one of our most diverse states, a dynamic multicultural place with an essential role in 21st century America. Allman reclaims this r…

Finding Florida: the true history of the Sunshine State

by Allman, T. D.

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"For generations, the turbulent story of Florida has been distorted and whitewashed. In [this book], T.D. Allman reclaims this remarkable history from the mythmakers, apologists, and boosters"--Dust jacket flap

Finding Florida: the true history of the Sunshine State

by Allman, T. D.

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"For generations, the turbulent story of Florida has been distorted and whitewashed. In [this book], T.D. Allman reclaims this remarkable history from the mythmakers, apologists, and boosters"--Dust jacket flap.

La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America

by Steigman, Jonathan D.

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The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and their quest for freedom in the Atlantic world

by Millett, Nathaniel

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A study of the Prospect Bluff Maroon settlement on the Apalachicola River, examining how the former slaves were radicalized by anti-slavery advocate Edward Nicolls and arguably developed a self-consciously defined version of freedom to claim the full rights due to British subjec…

Mission cemeteries, mission peoples: historical and evolutionary dimensions of intrace…

by Larsen, Clark Spencer, Stojanowski, Christopher M., (Christopher Michael)

fromBioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local,…

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Using biodistance analysis in the context of Spanish Florida, explores how a variety of inferences can be made about past populations and community patterns.

Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine

by Graham, Thomas

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Arguably no man did more to make over a city-or a state-than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America's elite. Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine tells the story of how one of t…

Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine

by Graham, Thomas

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Written for the average reader in plenty of time for the celebration of the founding of St. Augustine, Graham explores St. Augustine as Henry Flagler, the railroad baron who created Florida's East Coast tourism, saw it and built it.

Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine

by Graham, Thomas

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Written for the average reader in plenty of time for the celebration of the founding of St. Augustine, Graham explores St. Augustine as Henry Flagler, the railroad baron who created Florida's East Coast tourism, saw it and built it.

La Florida: five hundred years of Hispanic presence

by Hoffman, Paul E., Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel, Stepick, Alex, Racine, Karen, Bushnell, Amy Turner, Landers, Jane, Davis, Darién J., Eckstein, Susan, Duany, Jorge, Milanich, Jerald T., Guardia, Carmen de la, Feldman, Marcos, (Marcos H.)

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"Commemorating Juan Ponce de León's landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida, this ambitious volume explores five centuries of Hispanic presence in the New World peninsula, reflecting on the breadth and depth of encounters between the different lands and cultures. The contribut…

Florida's past: people and events that shaped the state, Volume 3

by Burnett, Gene M.

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Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that …