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Palmetto Leaves

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

22,46€ + 10% CARD

 <div>In 1867, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin settled in a small cottage in Mandarin, Florida, overlooking the St. Johns River.  She had promised her Boston publisher another novel  but was so taken with northeast Florida that she produced instead a series of sketches of the land and the people which she submitted in 1872  under the title Palmetto Leaves.Stowe describes life in Florida in the latter half of the 19th century—"a tumble-down, wild, panicky kind of life—this general happy-go-luckiness which Florida inculcates." Her idyllic sketches of picnicking, sailing, and river touring expeditions and simple stories of events and people in this tropical "winter summer" land  became the first unsolicited promotional writing to interest northern tourists in Florida.</div>
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Flagler - Rockefeller Partner And Florida Baron

by Edward N. Akin

66,18€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>From reviews of the first edition: "A succinct and informed account of [Flagler''s] leadership in transforming Florida''s economy."--American Historical Review "An important contribution to the understanding of Standard Oil''s extended partnership and how the personal desire of Flagler led to the early development of Florida''s Atlantic Coast."--The Historian Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida''s fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller''s closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil''s national domination over oil transportation costs. Flagler drove himself as hard as he drove a bargain, obsessed with the desire to create a monument to himself that he called "my domain." His legacy was no less than modern Florida. In 1885, at the age of fifty-five, he turned his attention away from Standard Oil and began construction of the Ponce de León luxury hotel in St. Augustine, the city where he had honeymooned with his second wife. Realizing he could never fill its rooms unless better transportation with the North was available, he embarked on the second railroad venture of his lifetime, creation of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler''s resort empire eventually included The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Royal Palm in Miami; his Atlantic coast railroad extended all the way to Key West, an engineering achievement that was called the "eighth wonder of the world." By the beginning of the twentieth century, Flagler dominated not just the resort and railroad industries in Florida but steamship and agricultural operations, too. Florida politicians gave his projects preferential treatment, even changing the state''s divorce law so he could marry for a third time. Woven into this biography are details about Flagler''s family, personality, three marriages, alienation from his only son, and devotion to the Presbyterian church--copy that fueled society gossip columns from New York to Palm Beach for decades. Edward N. Akin, author of Mississippi: An Illustrated History and other works on southern history, taught at Mississippi College in Clinton. His biography of Henry Flagler won the 1985 Phi Alpha Theta manuscript prize.</div>
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Flagler - Rockefeller Partner And Florida Baron

by Edward N. Akin

33,06€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>From reviews of the first edition: "A succinct and informed account of [Flagler's] leadership in transforming Florida's economy."--American Historical Review "An important contribution to the understanding of Standard Oil's extended partnership and how the personal desire of Flagler led to the early development of Florida's Atlantic Coast."--The Historian Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails.     As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil's national domination over oil transportation costs.     Flagler drove himself as hard as he drove a bargain, obsessed with the desire to create a monument to himself that he called "my domain." His legacy was no less than modern Florida. In 1885, at the age of fifty-five, he turned his attention away from Standard Oil and began construction of the Ponce de León luxury hotel in St. Augustine, the city where he had honeymooned with his second wife. Realizing he could never fill its rooms unless better transportation with the North was available, he embarked on the second railroad venture of his lifetime, creation of the Florida East Coast Railway.     Flagler's resort empire eventually included The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Royal Palm in Miami; his Atlantic coast railroad extended all the way to Key West, an engineering achievement that was called the "eighth wonder of the world." By the beginning of the twentieth century, Flagler dominated not just the resort and railroad industries in Florida but steamship and agricultural operations, too. Florida politicians gave his projects preferential treatment, even changing the state's divorce law so he could marry for a third time.     Woven into this biography are details about Flagler's family, personality, three marriages, alienation from his only son, and devotion to the Presbyterian church--copy that fueled society gossip columns from New York to Palm Beach for decades. Edward N. Akin, author of Mississippi: An Illustrated History and other works on southern history, taught at Mississippi College in Clinton. His biography of Henry Flagler won the 1985 Phi Alpha Theta manuscript prize.</div>
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Going To Miami - Exiles, Tourists And Refugees In The New America

by David Reiff

14,86€

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 This is a personal narrative as well as a book about Miami at the moment in the mid-1980s when the transformation of the city by its Cuban exile population was achieving critical mass. The author looks at Miami as America's New Havana, with a nod to the image fostered by TV's ""Miami Vice"".
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Some Kind Of Paradise - A Chronicle Of Man And The Land In Florida

by Mark Derr

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 Derr presents the most comprehensive portrait ever of past and present Florida, vividly describing its vanishing wildlife and its peculiar yet beautiful geography. 40 black-and-white photos.
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Considering Hate - Violence, Goodness, And Justice In American Culture And Politics

by Kay Whitlock e Michael Bronski

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 Violence Goodness and Justice in American Culture and Politics. A provocative book about rethinking hatred and violence in America
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Napoleon Bonaparte Broward - Florida'S Fighting Democrat

by Samuel Proctor

27,03€

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Rebel Bishop - Augustin Verot, Florida'S Civil War Prelate

by Michael Gannon

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 Augustin Verot preached vehemently on behalf of slave rights, but nevertheless used his pulpit to defend slavery as an institution. This is a biography of this controversial figure and the impact he made at a critical juncture of the histories of Florida, the Catholic Church and the Civil War.
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Aesop'S Fables - With A Life Of Aesop

by John E. Keller e L. Clark Keating

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 A lively translation of the 1489 collection of fables that became the most read book in Spain for three centuries. See other books in the series Studies in Romance Languages.
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The Voice Of The Frontier - John Bradford'S Notes On Kentucky

by John Bradford e Thomas D. Clark

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 From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West.
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Karagiozis - Culture & Comedy In Greek Puppet Theater

by Kostas Myrsiades e Linda Myrsiades

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 Karagiozis - a form of comic folk drama employing stock puppet figures - was immensely popular in Greece until recent years, when newer forms of entertainment have virtually eclipsed it.
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Respiratory Control - Central And Peripheral Mechanisms

by Dexter F. Speck, Donald A. Frazier, Michael S. Dekin e W. Robert Revelette

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 Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suff
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The Love Story In Shakespearean Comedy

by Anthony J. Lewis

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 Lewis's persuasive argument, that Shakespeare's heroes and heroines are, from the first, three-dimensional figures far removed from the stock types of Plautus, Terence, and his continental sources, will prove a valuable contribution to the ongoing feminist reappraisal of Shakespeare.
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Inter/View - Talks With America'S Writing Women

by Katherine Usher Henderson

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 Gathers interviews with Alison Lurie, Gail Godwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Marge Piercy, M.F.K. Fisher, Laurie Colwin, and Kate Braverman.
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Dubious Victory - The Reconstruction Debate In Ohio

by Robert D. Sawrey

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 Through extensive research in contemporary newspapers, manuscripts, legislative debates, and diaries, he offers the most complete picture ever presented of northern attitudes on the two crucial issues of Reconstruction - the terms of readmission and the fate of the former slaves.
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The Excellence Of Falsehood - Romance, Realism And Women'S Contribution To The Novel

by Deborah L. Ross

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 This clergyman's remarks - repeating what literary and moral authorities had been saying since the late seventeenth century - are central to Deborah Ross's discussion of romance characteristics in English women's novels.
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Edith Wharton'S Dialogue With Realism And Sentimental Fiction

by University Press Of Florida

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 Arguing against the prevailing view of Edith Wharton as a realist writer, Hildegard Hoeller finds the ""real"" Wharton in the writer's sentimental voice and in her critique of realism. She demonstrates that the American writer created a dialogue between the two literary traditions.
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Company K

by William March

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 This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches, or chapters, tracing the fictional Company K's war exploits.
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Volcanoes - Eruptions And Other Volcanic Hazards

by Timothy Kusky

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 Volcanic eruptions are some of the spectacular of natural phenomena, yet they are also among the dangerous geological hazards. This book examines the different types of volcanic eruptions - starting with an introduction to volcanoes, volcanic landforms, and plate tectonics, followed by a description of the various characteristics of magma.
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Flowerdew Hundred - Archaeology Of A Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864

by James Deetz

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 A study of Flowerdew Hundred, a 1000-acre plantation in Virginia. It uses the artifacts unearthed since excavations began in the 1970s to construct some 250 years of life at Flowerdew, and to convey to us what historical archaeology can do.
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'Un-American' Hollywood - Politics And Film In The Blacklist Era

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 Discusses the debate on the blacklist era and on aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. Featuring case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception, this book offers perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. It includes essays which scrutinize the work of individual practitioners.
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Up For Grabs - A Trip Through Time And Space In The Sunshine State

by John Rothchild

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 This personal and historical travelogue presents a native's view of the sunshine state. While much of the state seems younger than many of its inhabitants, it hosts all the modern demographic, economic and social problems, as well as sunshine, beaches and exotic flora and fauna.

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