Waubonsee Community College

Florida, a short history, Michael Gannon

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-156) and index

individual biography

mapsillustrations

index present

non fiction

Florida

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Michael Gannon

Columbus quincentenary series

a short history

This is a welcome mini-successor to Charlton Tebeau's out-of-print A History of Florida. Gannon (history, Univ. of Florida) has updated coverage of the state's long history to include minorities, women, and environmental concerns through the year of Hurricane Andrew, focusing more on social than political history. The book contains some minor factual errors: the town of Cedar Key is misspelled several times as Cedar Keys, which is an offshore wildlife refuge; Gannon laments the exclusionary policies of the Universities of Miami and Florida, which in the 1940s excluded blacks from sports teams, while ignoring the opportunities then afforded African Americans at A & M College, which produced renowned athletes Willie Gallimore and Althea Gibson. Despite these slips, Gannon's work belongs on all library shelves

In the Beginning -- European Settlement -- Missions -- Military and Civil Life -- Two Decades of British Rule -- The Second Spanish Period -- The United States Acquires Florida -- Territorial Years and Statehood -- Secession -- Reconstruction -- The Bourbon Era -- Modern Florida Begins -- World War I and Prohibition -- Boom in Paradise -- Racism and Violence -- Tropical Depression -- Relief and Recovery -- Industry and Agriculture -- World War II -- Postwar Politics -- Taking Stock Culturally -- Florida at Midcentury -- The Pepper-Smathers Campaign -- The McCarty and Collins Years -- The Sixties -- The Seventies -- Within Our Memories -- The Past is Prologue -- Books on Florida History