The history of Florida / edited by Michael Gannon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gannon, Michael, 1927-2017, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Florida--History.

Florida.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]

Summary:

The definitive history of Florida from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Revised and updated with 15 revised chapters and three completely new ones.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. Original Inhabitants; 2. First European Contacts; 3. The Land They Found; 4. Settlement and Survival; 5. Republic of Spaniards, Republic of Indians; 6. The Missions of Spanish Florida; 7. Raids, Sieges, and International Wars; 8. Pensacola, 1686-1763; 9. British Rule in the Floridas; 10. The Second Spanish Period in the Two Floridas; 11. Free and Enslaved; 12. Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Peoples; 13. U.S. Territory and State; 14. The Civil War, 1861-1865; 15. Reconstruction and Renewal, 1865-1877.

16. The First Developers17. Fortune and Misfortune: The Paradoxical 1920s; 18. The Great Depression; 19. World War II; 20. Florida by Nature: A Survey of Extrahuman Historical Agency; 21. The Maritime Heritage of Florida; 22. Florida Politics: The State Evolves into One of the Nation's Premier Political Battlegrounds; 23. Florida's African American Experience: The Twentieth Century and Beyond; 24. Immigration and Ethnicity in Florida History; 25. Boom, Bust, and Uncertainty: A Social History of Modern Florida; List of Contributors; Index.

Notes:

"Previously published as The New History of Florida."

"A Florida Quincentennial Book ".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-6378-7

OCLC:

1568168616