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Dreams in the new century : instant cities, shattered hopes, and Florida's turning point /
"Eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history, taking stock of a tumultuous decade of change and explaining the state's social, cultural, and political intricacies&q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville, FL :
University Press of Florida,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Y2K and hanging chads, JEB! and Dubya : Florida and the election of 2000
- "Something wicked this way comes" : 9/11, the age of fear, and the tropic of crazy
- The year of four hurricanes : red states and blue tarps, old demons and new saints
- Election season : 2004
- The natural, the professor, Queen Esther, and the astronaut : Florida, 2006
- The boom at high tide : 2000-2007
- Instant cities, boomburbs, and Little Havanas
- The dream and the nightmare : immigration, 2000-2010
- Sunshine and shadows : Florida on the brink
- Cloudy skies over "Foreclosureville" : Florida's great recession and reset
- The Ponzi State : zombie homes and ghost towers, schemers and adverse possessors
- A state in revision : refining a sense of place and redefining the dream
- A political earthquake : Florida politics, 2008-2010
- Florida, 2008-2010 : political "Crist"-enings, "Rubio" red harvests, and "Sink"-ing blue poll numbers
- Conclusion : because we could, communities amid the storms of change.