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Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State

Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State

Allman, T. D.

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral World HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0802122302
ISBN13: 9780802122308
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Feb 25 2014
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.65 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, god's waiting room, and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it's home to nineteen million. The site of vicious racial violence, including massacres, slavery, and the roll-back of Reconstruction, Florida is now one of our most diverse states, a dynamic multicultural place with an essential role in 21st-century America.

In Finding Florida, journalist T.D. Allman reclaims the remarkable history of Florida from the state's mythologizers, apologists, and boosters. Allman traces the discovery, exploration, and settlement of Florida, its transformation from a swamp to paradise. Palm Beach, Key West, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando boomed, fortunes were won and lost, land was stolen and flipped, and millions arrived. The product of a decade of research and writing, Finding Florida is a highly original, stylish, and masterful work, the first modern comprehensive history of this fascinating place.

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