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Book The Architecture of Leisure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan R. Braden
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2018-02-26
  • ISBN : 1947372491
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book The Architecture of Leisure written by Susan R. Braden and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Twentieth Century

Download or read book The Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nineteenth Century and After

Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Successful American

Download or read book The Successful American written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fruits of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shana Klein
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 0520296397
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book The Fruits of Empire written by Shana Klein and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This excitement for fruit manifested in an explosion of fruit imagery within still life paintings, prints, trade cards, and more. Images of fruit labor and consumption by immigrants and people of color also gained visibility, merging alongside the efforts of expansionists to assimilate land and, in some cases, people into the national body. Divided into five chapters on visual images of the grape, orange, watermelon, banana, and pineapple, this book demonstrates how representations of fruit struck the nerve of the nation’s most heated debates over land, race, and citizenship in the age of high imperialism.

Book American Architecture  1860 1976

Download or read book American Architecture 1860 1976 written by Marcus Whiffen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of a guide comprehensive guide to American Architecture, covering developments between the years 1860 and 1976.

Book Sunshine State Almanac and Book of Florida related Stuff

Download or read book Sunshine State Almanac and Book of Florida related Stuff written by Phil Philcox and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chock-full of statistics, recipes, photos, and helpful, fascinating stuff of, from, and about Florida.

Book Vanity Fair

Download or read book Vanity Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daytona Beach  Florida

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale Cambre
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780752413235
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Daytona Beach Florida written by Dale Cambre and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s through the 1920s; the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of friends and neighbors only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcard and sold in general stores across the country survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history.

Book The Two Henrys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandra Wallus Sammons
  • Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1561644560
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book The Two Henrys written by Sandra Wallus Sammons and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of two men named Henry who loved Florida and built railroads which brought growth and development to Florida.

Book Designing Dixie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reiko Hillyer
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2014-12-29
  • ISBN : 0813936713
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Designing Dixie written by Reiko Hillyer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many white southerners chose to memorialize the Lost Cause in the aftermath of the Civil War, boosters, entrepreneurs, and architects in southern cities believed that economic development, rather than nostalgia, would foster reconciliation between North and South. In Designing Dixie, Reiko Hillyer shows how these boosters crafted distinctive local pasts designed to promote their economic futures and to attract northern tourists and investors. Neither romanticizing the Old South nor appealing to Lost Cause ideology, promoters of New South industrialization used urban design to construct particular relationships to each city’s southern, slaveholding, and Confederate pasts. Drawing on the approaches of cultural history, landscape studies, and the history of memory, Hillyer shows how the southern tourist destinations of St. Augustine, Richmond, and Atlanta deployed historical imagery to attract northern investment. St. Augustine’s Spanish Renaissance Revival resorts muted the town’s Confederate past and linked northern investment in the city to the tradition of imperial expansion. Richmond boasted its colonial and Revolutionary heritage, depicting its industrial development as an outgrowth of national destiny. Atlanta’s use of northern architectural language displaced the southern identity of the city and substituted a narrative of long-standing allegiance to a modern industrial order. With its emphases on alternative southern pasts, architectural design, tourism, and political economy, Designing Dixie significantly revises our understandings of both southern historical memory and post–Civil War sectional reconciliation.

Book The Sketch Book Magazine

Download or read book The Sketch Book Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Motorist

Download or read book American Motorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rails Across Dixie

Download or read book Rails Across Dixie written by Jim Cox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid-1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices.

Book Classic American Streamliners

Download or read book Classic American Streamliners written by Mike Schafer and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with over 200 photos, this book tells the story of railroad streamliners, from their early days as short little articulated speedsters to their halcyon years as 20-car "cities on wheels"--Places that were going somewhere. And it also tells a story of a time of individuality, when streamliners reflected the personality of the regions they served.

Book American Monthly Review of Reviews

Download or read book American Monthly Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Review of Reviews

Download or read book The American Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: