{"product_id":"land-of-sunshine-state-of-dreams-a-social-history-of-modern-florida-9780813033082","title":"Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlorida 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. \u003ci\u003eLand of Sunshine, State of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to understand the firestorm of change that erupted into modern Florida by examining the great social, cultural, and economic forces driving its transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Mormino, \u003c\/b\u003eDuckwall Professor of History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413248938258,"sku":"9780813033082","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a647df54-3eb9-4e1c-8149-6ada1217d956.jpg?v=1729351105","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/land-of-sunshine-state-of-dreams-a-social-history-of-modern-florida-9780813033082","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}