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Dreams in the New Century : Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida's Turning Point / Gary R. Mormino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mormino, Gary Ross, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Florida--Social conditions--21st century.
- Florida.
- Florida--History--21st century.
- Florida--Politics and government--21st century.
- Florida--Social aspects--21st century.
- Florida--Civilization--21st century.
- Politics and government.
- Civilization.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (567 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2022]
- Biography/History:
- Gary R. Mormino is the Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the winner of the Florida Humanities 2015 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and serves as Florida Humanities scholar in residence.
- Summary:
- "Eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history, taking stock of a tumultuous decade of change and explaining the state's social, cultural, and political intricacies"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Y2K and hanging chads, JEB! and Dubya : Florida and the election of 2000
- "Something wicked this way comes" : 9/11, the age of fear, and the tropic of crazy
- The year of four hurricanes : red states and blue tarps, old demons and new saints
- Election season : 2004
- The natural, the professor, Queen Esther, and the astronaut : Florida, 2006
- The boom at high tide : 2000-2007
- Instant cities, boomburbs, and Little Havanas
- The dream and the nightmare : immigration, 2000-2010
- Sunshine and shadows : Florida on the brink
- Cloudy skies over "Foreclosureville" : Florida's great recession and reset
- The Ponzi State : zombie homes and ghost towers, schemers and adverse possessors
- A state in revision : refining a sense of place and redefining the dream
- A political earthquake : Florida politics, 2008-2010
- Florida, 2008-2010 : political "Crist"-enings, "Rubio" red harvests, and "Sink"-ing blue poll numbers
- Conclusion : because we could, communities amid the storms of change.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mormino, Gary R. Dreams in the New Century
- ISBN:
- 9780813072319
- 081307231X
- 9780813070124
- 0813070120
- OCLC:
- 1312803649
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