02516nam a2200457 i 4500 ebr10763665 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 130419t20132013flua ob 001 0 eng|d 9780813044811 9780813048413 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)858654707 n-us-fl n-us-ca HC107.F6 K58 2013eb 330.9759 23 Knight, Henry, 1982- Tropic of hopes : California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929 / Henry Knight. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013] �2013 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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. 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Florida Economic conditions. California Economic conditions. Florida Population History. California Population History. Florida Social conditions. California Social conditions. Electronic books. 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 9780813044811 2013015086 (DLC)10763665 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10763665 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 122468 122468