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Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Florida: Its Climate, Soil, and Productions
Author: Florida: Its Climate, Soil and Productions
Author: Florida. Commissioner of Lands and ImmigrationPublisher:
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Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: F-L. nos. 1601-3103. 1907
Author: Thomas Lindsley BradfordPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Immigrants on the Land
Author: George E. PozzettaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824074043
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Designing Dixie
Author: Reiko HillyerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813936713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South. In Designing Dixie, Reiko Hillyer shows how these boosters crafted distinctive local pasts designed to promote their economic futures and to attract northern tourists and investors. Neither romanticizing the Old South nor appealing to Lost Cause ideology, promoters of New South industrialization used urban design to construct particular relationships to each city’s southern, slaveholding, and Confederate pasts. Drawing on the approaches of cultural history, landscape studies, and the history of memory, Hillyer shows how the southern tourist destinations of St. Augustine, Richmond, and Atlanta deployed historical imagery to attract northern investment. St. Augustine’s Spanish Renaissance Revival resorts muted the town’s Confederate past and linked northern investment in the city to the tradition of imperial expansion. Richmond boasted its colonial and Revolutionary heritage, depicting its industrial development as an outgrowth of national destiny. Atlanta’s use of northern architectural language displaced the southern identity of the city and substituted a narrative of long-standing allegiance to a modern industrial order. With its emphases on alternative southern pasts, architectural design, tourism, and political economy, Designing Dixie significantly revises our understandings of both southern historical memory and post–Civil War sectional reconciliation.
Fruits and Plains
Author: Philip J. PaulyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent. Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and scientists to introduce desirable plants, both American and foreign, while preventing growth of alien riff-raff. These horticulturists coaxed plants along in new environments and, through grafting and hybridizing, created new varieties. Over the last 250 years, their activities transformed the American landscape. "Horticulture" may bring to mind white-glove garden clubs and genteel lectures about growing better roses. But Philip J. Pauly wants us to think of horticulturalists as pioneer "biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that reflects their ambitions and ideals. Those standards have shaped the look of suburban neighborhoods, city parks, and the "native" produce available in our supermarkets. In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien--and how better to manage the landscapes around us.
Annual Report
Author: Florida Geological SurveyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
Author: Florida History
Author: Michael H. HarrisPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 944
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