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Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
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1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
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* Návod pro vzdálený přístup
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ISBN 9780813048413 (electronic bk.)
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ISBN 9780813044811
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Print version: Knight, Henry. Tropic of hopes : California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013] xii, 266 pages ISBN 9780813044811
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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"Our" tropical lands: reinventions of California and Florida after the Civil War -- A climate for health and wealth: the lure of tropical leisure on American soil -- The fruits of labor: boosterist visions of republican renewal and semi-tropical agriculture -- Desert and swamp: the conquest of tropical nature in the progressive era -- "New edens of the Saxon home-seeker": Los Angeles, Miami, and semi-tropical urban life.
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An examination of how land barons, railroad kingpins, and journalists, among others, "sold" Americans on the idea of Florida and California as a paradise within reach..
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001765043
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full
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(Au-PeEL)EBL1398191
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(CaONFJC)MIL517746
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(CaPaEBR)ebr10763665
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(MiAaPQ)EBC1398191
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(OCoLC)858654707
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