This bestselling corporate/environmental history examines how the state's largest landowner has the potential to permanently and drastically alter the landscape, environment, and economic foundation of the northwestern part of the state.
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This collection of essays surveys the environmental history of the Sunshine State, from Spanish exploration to the present, and provides an organized, detailed overview of the reciprocal relationship between humans and Florida's unique peninsular ecology.
This book tells how dedicated members of one of the oldest and most prominent Black religious institutions created a forceful presence within the American American community in Florida after the Civil War.
By illuminating the involvement of the state's women in many of these fundamental issues, Making Waves provides a long-overdue chapter in Florida history. It will also contribute to the advancement of the study of women's history by examining women's activism in a variety of contexts and illustrating how this activism was often circumscribed by class and racial bias.
The life and times of the first female head of the Seminole Tribe, the most decorated member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida’s Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of a teenager who journeyed from Spain to Mexico, Havana, and Florida, presenting an inside view of the sailing experience in the sixteenth century and insight into the ambitions, concerns, and religiosity of his fellow Spaniards.