Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams - (Florida History and Culture (Paperback)) by Gary R Mormino (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Florida has stirred the imaginations of Walt Disney, Dick Pope, Elizabeth Bishop, and Carl Hiaasen, but beneath the iconography of popular culture Mormino reveals a complex social framework. He ranges far and wide across the landscape of a place that is at once the continental United States' southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean, from sprawling metropolises to those remote regions where the echoes of Old Dixie and a vanishing Florida can still be heard. He evokes contrasting and compelling images: the sacred and profane; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a graying population; the Fountain of Youth and a kitschy wasteland. This is a story of character and composition, of people and places, and of the enduring but changing meaning of a dream state."--Jacket.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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. <i>Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams</i> attempts to understand the firestorm of change that erupted into modern Florida by examining the great social, cultural, and economic forces driving its transformation.</p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gary Mormino, </b>Duckwall Professor of History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, is the coauthor of <i>The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985.</i>
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