TY - BOOK AU - Knight,Henry TI - Tropic of hopes: California, Florida, and the selling of American paradise, 1869-1929 AV - HC107.F6 K58 2013eb U1 - 330.9759 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Florida KW - Economic conditions KW - California KW - Population KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10763665 ER -