"This path-breaking book brilliantly explains the explosive growth
of Florida from 2.7 million inhabitants in 1950 to 15.9 million in
2000. It focuses on the diverse people who migrated here; the
developers of tourism, beaches, shopping malls, and gated
communities; new technology (from air conditioning to the space
age); and the impact of this growth and development upon the
environment."--James B.Crooks, professor emeritus, University of
North Florida "This is the first comprehensive social history of
Florida in any of its epochs. A brilliant compilation of data, it
will be the standard against which all future such efforts in
Florida will be measured."--Michael Gannon, professor emeritus,
University of Florida Florida is a story of astonishing growth, a
state swelling from 500,000 residents at the outset of the 20th
century to some 16 million at the end. As recently as mid-century,
on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Florida was the smallest state in the
South. At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in
the country, a megastate that was among those introducing new words
into the American vernacular: space coast, climate control, growth
management, retirement community, theme park, edge cities, shopping
mall, boomburbs, beach renourishment, Interstate, and Internet.
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams attempts to understand the
firestorm of change that erupted into modern Florida by examining
the great social, cultural, and economic forces driving its
transformation. Gary Mormino ranges far and wide across the
landscape and boundaries of a place that is at once America's
southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean.
From the capital, Tallahassee--a day's walk from the Georgia
border--to Miami--a city distant but tantalizingly close to Cuba
and Haiti--Mormino traces the themes of Florida's transformation:
the echoes of old Dixie and a vanishing Florida; land booms and
tourist empires; revolutions in agriculture, technology, and
demographics; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a
graying population; and the enduring but changing meanings of a
dreamstate. Beneath the iconography of popular culture is revealed
a complex and complicated social framework that reflects a dizzying
passage from New Spain to Old South, New South to Sunbelt.
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