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Dreams in the New Century

Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida’s Turning Point

By: Gary R. Mormino

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Dreams in the New Century

Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida’s Turning Point

By: Gary R. Mormino

Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award A leading Florida historian explores one of the state’s most consequential eras It was a time of stunning episodes of boom and bust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida’s future. In this book, eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history. Following Mormino’s milestone work Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, which details the dynamic history of Florida from 1950 to 2000, Dreams in the New Century explores the state’s tumultuous next chapter, a period that included the Bush v. Gore election, 9/11, the housing bubble and Great Recession, and the election of Barack Obama. During these years the Elián González story engrossed the country, Tim Tebow rose to football fame, and Donald Trump became a Florida celebrity. From hurricanes to Ponzi schemes, red tides, climate change, the “Stand-Your-Ground” gun law, demographic diversity, and more, Florida offered nonstop news fodder that reflected its extraordinary internal trends and its importance in the nation. As Mormino shows, Florida is a place of deep conflicts—North and South, liberal and conservative, newcomer and local, growth and conservation—with histories that can be traced back centuries. In 2000‒2010, Mormino argues, these tensions collided to produce a “Big Bang” that will continue to resonate in years to come. Mormino takes stock of this crucible of change and explains the social, cultural, and political intricacies of a state the world struggles to understand. Dreams in the New Century unravels Florida’s complicated recent history in a gripping, informative, and fascinating narrative.

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Millard Fillmore Caldwell

Governing on the Wrong Side of History

By: Gary R. Mormino

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Millard Fillmore Caldwell

Governing on the Wrong Side of History

By: Gary R. Mormino

When actions of the past clash with the values of today Millard Fillmore Caldwell (1897–1984) was once considered one of the greatest Floridians of his generation. Yet today he is known for his inability to adjust to the racial progress of the modern world. In this biography, leading Florida historian Gary Mormino tackles the difficult question of how to remember yesterday’s heroes who are now known to have had serious flaws. The last Florida governor born in the nineteenth century and the first to govern in the atomic age, Caldwell was beloved in his time for leading the state through the hard years of World War II. He was wildly successful in a political career that may never be matched, serving as governor, congressman, state legislator, and chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court. He passed important educational reform legislation. But his attitudes toward race and citizenship strike Americans today as embarrassing and shocking. He refused to address black leaders by their titles. He argued for segregated bomb shelters. And he accepted lynching as part of the southern way of life. Mormino measures the contributions of Caldwell alongside his glaring faults, discussing his complicated role in shaping modern Florida. In the current debates surrounding public memorials and historical memory in the United States, Millard Fillmore Caldwell is a timely example of one man’s contested legacy. A volume in the series Florida in Focus, edited by Andrew K. Frank

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0813065526

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Spanish Pathways in Florida, 1492-1992

Caminos Españoles en La Florida, 1492-1992

By: Ann L Henderson,Gary R Mormino,Carlos J Cano

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Caminos Españoles en La Florida, 1492-1992

By: Ann L Henderson,Gary R Mormino,Carlos J Cano

Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged. This book features essays in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida from the first explorers to the latest Hispanic migrations into Miami.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561647446

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Immigrant World of Ybor City

Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985

By: Gary R. Mormino,George E. Pozzetta

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Immigrant World of Ybor City

Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985

By: Gary R. Mormino,George E. Pozzetta

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

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University Press of Florida

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1947372653

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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams

A Social History of Modern Florida

By: Gary R Mormino

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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams

A Social History of Modern Florida

By: Gary R Mormino

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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Dreams in the New Century

Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida’s Turning Point

By: Gary R. Mormino

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Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida’s Turning Point

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Millard Fillmore Caldwell

Governing on the Wrong Side of History

By: Gary R. Mormino

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Governing on the Wrong Side of History

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TAMPA: The Treasure City

By: Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo

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TAMPA: The Treasure City

By: Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo

A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR Tampa richly deserves its reputation as a dynamic leader of the Sun Belt, a city whose self-confidence is apparent in the spirit of its and their enthusiastic building for the future. But Tampa, as we native Floridians know, boasts a history as impressive as its future. Long before Americans savored a hand-rolled cigar, or marveled at the international airport, Tampa had established its reputation as a frontier post, a cattle center and a gateway to the Gulf. Names like De Soto, McKay, Lesley, Gutierrez, Plant, Ybor, Spicola, Knight, Lykes and Ferguson-these names have enriched Tampa. Tampa has, in turn, added luster to the Sun- shine State. The authors, Gary Mormino and Tony Pizzo, have captured Tampa’s special sheen with words and pictures that will make its fame and beauty even more broadly recognized than they are to- day. Their work is a worthy contribution to the American Portrait Series and does credit not only to their subject, but to their talent. It would make a great addition to your home, school or as a Christmas present that should get much use. BOB GRAHAM Governor of Florida It would make a great addition to your home, school or as a Christmas present that should get much use. Excerpt From: Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo. “The Treasure City Tampa.” iBooks.

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0932986382

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The Immigrant World of Ybor City

Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985

By: Gary Ross Mormino,George E. Pozzetta

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Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985

By: Gary Ross Mormino,George E. Pozzetta

A compelling attempt to assess the relationships over the last century among class, culture, and community in the forging of the Italian experience in Ybor City. . . . The wide range of private and public documents, . . . the extensive use of oral testimonies, and a good mastering of anthropological and sociological tools place the book within the best vein of the new social history."--Reviews in American History "An impressive book that has a great deal to offer those interested in the complex relationships of class and culture in the formation of communities. . . . A tour de force."--Hispanic American Historical Review This reprint of Gary Mormino and George Pozzetta's classic, The Immigrant World of Ybor City, makes available once again the wonderful story of the vibrant community of Italians, Spaniards, and Cubans that grew up around the cigar industry in Tampa, Florida, at the dawn of the 20th century. Focusing on the Italian experience in this multi-ethnic city, Mormino and Pozzetta explore interactions among immigrant groups--as rivals, and as friends with common concerns. As they demonstrate, the extent to which immigrant groups cooperated in Ybor City was remarkable, in large part the effect of immigrant workers' strong sense of class consciousness and solidarity. Interweaving the themes of class, culture, and community, Mormino and Pozzetta recreate a world of cigar factories and their lectores, men who read aloud from novels, radical publications, and newspapers while the tabaqueros worked, rolling and cutting cigars. It is also a world of trolley cars, bolita peddlers, and mutual aid societies, a world where people read daily from a trilingual newspaper, La Gaceta, and spent their free time at clubhouses like El Centro Español or cantinos like L'Unione Italiana. And it is a world of turbulent strikes and chronic conflict between the "Latins" and Tampa's native "Anglos." Drawing on newspaper articles, public and government documents, institutional and private papers, Federal Writers' Project interviews, and the authors' own interviews with hundreds of Ybor City residents, The Immigrant World of Ybor City reveals a fascinating portrait of one of America's most celebrated ethnic communities. Gary R. Mormino, Duckwall Professor of History at the University of South Florida in Tampa, is the author of Immigrants on the Hill: Italian-Americans in St. Louis, 1882-1982. George E. Pozzetta, who died in 1994, was professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the editor of Pane e Lavoro: The Italian American Working Class and, with David Colburn, America and the New Ethnicity.

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Dreams in the New Century

Dreams in the New Century

Millard Fillmore Caldwell

Millard Fillmore Caldwell

Spanish Pathways in Florida, 1492-1992

Spanish Pathways in Florida, 1492-1992

Immigrant World of Ybor City

Immigrant World of Ybor City

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams

Dreams in the New Century

Dreams in the New Century

Millard Fillmore Caldwell

Millard Fillmore Caldwell

TAMPA: The Treasure City

TAMPA: The Treasure City

The Immigrant World of Ybor City

The Immigrant World of Ybor City

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