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How the New Deal built Florida tourism : the Civilian Conservation Corps and state parks / David J. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, David J., 1972- author.
- Series:
- Florida scholarship online.
- Florida scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Florida Park Service--History.
- Florida Park Service.
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.).
- Tourism--Florida--History.
- Tourism.
- Parks--Florida--History.
- Parks.
- New Deal, 1933-1939--Florida--History.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Florida--History--1865-.
- Florida.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020.
- Summary:
- In 'How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism', David Nelson examines the creation of modern Florida tourism through the state and federal government during the Great Depression. And more specifically, with the Florida civic-elite's use of the Federal New Deal to develop state parks in order to re-boot Florida's depressed tourist industry.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5809-0
- 0-8130-5709-4
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