Florida

by Gannon, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780813026800
• ISBN10: 0813026806
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

As if Ponce de Leon, who happened on the peninsula in 1513, returned today to demand a quick reckoning ("Tell me what happened after I was there, but leave out the boring parts!"), Michael Gannon recounts the longest recorded history of any state in the nation in twenty-seven brisk, fully illustrated chapters. From indigenous tribes who lived along spring-fed streams to environmentalists who labor to "Save Our Rivers," from the first conquistadors whose broad black ships astonished the natives to the 123,000 refugees whose unexpected immigration stunned South Floridians in 1980, the story of the state is as rich and distinctive as the story of America. And it's older than most people think. As Gannon writes, "By the time the Pilgrims came ashore at Plymouth, St. Augustine was up for urban renewal. It was a town with fort, church, seminary, six-bed hospital, fish market, and about 120 shops and houses. Because La Florida stretched north from the Keys to New-foundland and west to Texas, St. Augustine could claim to be the capital of much of what is now the United

Author Biography

Michael Gannon is distinguished service professor emeritus of history at the University of Florida.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
In the Beginning	1	(149)
European Settlement	3	(7)
Missions	10	(4)
Military and Civil Life	14	(3)
Two Decades of British Rule	17	(7)
The Second Spanish Period	24	(3)
The United States Acquires Florida	27	(1)
Territorial Years and Statehood	28	(12)
Secession	40	(6)
Reconstruction	46	(7)
The Bourbon Era	53	(13)
Modern Florida Begins	66	(8)
World War I and Prohibition	74	(3)
Boom in Paradise	77	(9)
Racism and Violence	86	(2)
Tropical Depression	88	(1)
Relief and Recovery	89	(6)
Industry and Agriculture	95	(5)
World War II	100	(9)
Postwar Politics	109	(3)
Taking Stock Culturally	112	(6)
Florida at Midcentury	118	(5)
The Pepper-Smathers Campaign	123	(2)
The McCarty and Collins Years	125	(5)
The Sixties	130	(5)
The Seventies	135	(4)
Within Our Memories	139	(11)
The Past Is Prologue	150	(2)
Books on Florida History	152	(5)
Index	157