Henry Bradley Plant : Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South / Canter Brown Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Canter, Jr., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant, Henry Bradley, 1819-1899.

Plant, Henry Bradley.

Businessmen--Florida--Biography.

Businessmen.

Southern States--History--19th century.

Southern States.

Florida--History--19th century.

Florida.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]

Summary:

The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida In this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr.makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant's influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Formative Years: 1819 to 1834

2. New Haven: 1834 to 1844

3. Recovery: 1844 to 1854

4. Southern Ways: 1854 to 1859

5. Unwanted Conflict: 1859 to 1863

6. A Work of Reconstruction: 1863 to 1868

7. Flush Times: 1868 to 1873

8. The Panic: 1873 to 1878

9. Florida and the Pearl of the Antilles: 1878 to 1882

10. Tampa: 1882 to 1886

11. Transportation and Tourism: 1886 to 1889

12. Unanticipated Outcomes: 1889 to 1893

13. In the Midst of Calamity: 1893 to 1896

14. War and Peace: 1896 to 1899

Afterword: The Ephemeral Nature of Legacies

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9266-1

OCLC:

1127387956