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Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. by Lynn A. Nelson; Juricek, Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733-1763. by Matthew H. Jennings; Wayne, Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida. by Uzi Baram; Tuten, Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom. by Philip Mills Herrington; Slap, ed., Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath. by John David Smith; Clegg III, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. by Bruce E. Baker; Holsaert, Prescod, Noonan, Richardson, Robinson, …


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; 2011-2012 Florida Lecture Series; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


Miami Stories, Jeff Rice Apr 2022

Miami Stories, Jeff Rice

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his song Miami 2017, Billy Joel imagined Miami, Florida, as a refuge for an impending apocalypse. In the narrative, or diegesis, Joel builds, Miami is never mentioned. But as Joel describes how dangerous New York has become in this futuristic scenario, the city's citizens, we are led to believe, will once again flee south, just as the song tells us they did almost eight years earlier.


In Marjorie's Wake: A Film Voyage Into Florida's Nature Consciousness, Leslie Kemp Poole Apr 2022

In Marjorie's Wake: A Film Voyage Into Florida's Nature Consciousness, Leslie Kemp Poole

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the premiere of the documentary ended and the lights went up, its filmmakers held their breath and wondered: Would In Marjorie's Wake accomplish the task they had hoped for-to bridge the new Florida with the old, linking the literary musings of one of the state's most celebrated authors with a true concern for its vanishing paradise? The audience's enthusiastic applause and subsequent comments- gave them hope.


Florida Porch Reverie, Charlie Hailey Apr 2022

Florida Porch Reverie, Charlie Hailey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Calvin Stowe once conversed with Goethe on his Florida porch. His wife Harriet Beecher Stowe, well-known author of Uncle Toms Cabin, set up this context when she first explored Orange Park in the spring of 1867 and found an enthralling climate and landscape inclined to mix the actual with the imagined. By 1868 the Stowes purchased a house on the St. Johns River in Mandarin and by 1872 completed renovations, most significantly the porch. For Harriet, this open-air space-she called it her "veranda"-harbored dreams and visions for writerly inspiration. On the porch, Calvin reads, translates, and hallucinates while Harriet listens …


Is South Florida The New Southern California?: Carl Hiaasen's Dystopian Paradise, David M. Parker Apr 2022

Is South Florida The New Southern California?: Carl Hiaasen's Dystopian Paradise, David M. Parker

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida and California have from their entry into American culture been considered by writers to be enchanted states, the places to which Americans can escape to a more exotic reality than is represented by the colder North and East. As early as the American Revolution, then-Spanish Florida was known for its unspoiled terrain and its lush beauty. Harriet Beecher Stowe extolled its exotic qualities, while Stephen Crane wrote of the contrast between the harsh outside world and the escapist qualities of the state. California, by contrast, has been seen as a paradise, a found Eden, and like Florida, a place …


Murders And Pastels In Miami: The Role Of Miami Vice In Bringing Back Tourists To Miami, Alison Meek Apr 2022

Murders And Pastels In Miami: The Role Of Miami Vice In Bringing Back Tourists To Miami, Alison Meek

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the 1950s, Miami, Florida, earned a reputation as a tourist destination for its "arresting combination of sun, sand, and sea."1 But by the late 1970s and early 1980s, that image had changed dramatically. Instead of sandy beaches and year-round warm tropical rays of sun tanning pasty tourists, Miami developed an image in the national and international media centered on drug cartel shoot-outs, Cuban refugees, and race riots. To make matters worse, in the eyes of Miami's tourist honchos, a new NBC weekly series focused on the city was set to debut in the fall of 1984. Michael Mann's Miami …


Florida: The Mediated State, Julian C. Chambliss Apr 2022

Florida: The Mediated State, Julian C. Chambliss

Florida Historical Quarterly

In a March 2007 National Geographic article titled, "Beyond Disney," writer T.D. Allman wrote, "Everything happening to America today is happening here ... "1 The article went on to suggest that Orlando had become a prime example of the "ascendant power of cities' exurbs... " While this assessment was focused on the iconic Central Florida community, the implication that Florida's experience foreshadows the country's future highlights a crucial role the state plays in the broader U.S. experience, a role that this special issue of the Florida Historical Quarterly aims to render. Indeed, as Anne Rowe writes in The Ideal of …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 90, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; 2011-2012 Florida Lecture Series; The Zora Neale Hurston in Brevard County Exhibition; Stetson Kennedy and the Pursuit of Truth: Facing South, The Institute for Southern Studies; Stetson Kennedy and the Florida Historical Society; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


The Rise And Fall Of The Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant In West Florida, Cody Scallions Apr 2022

The Rise And Fall Of The Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant In West Florida, Cody Scallions

Florida Historical Quarterly

To many scholars, the West Florida Revolt of 1810 served merely as a transitional period in American history. Referenced as a time when a few social elites rose to challenge Spanish colonial authority in southeastern Louisiana, the West Florida Revolt has been viewed as a necessary step in the annexation of the territory by the United States. Recent research suggests this perspective should be qualified. Much like the Republic of Texas, the Republic of West Florida exhibited characteristics common to more successful independent states, including a functioning written constitution, a judicial system, a treasury, an army, and important elements of …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gallay, ed., Indian Slavery in Colonial America. by Heidi Scott Giusto; Belko, ed., America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858. by Brent R. Weisman; Kolb III and Weir, eds., Captured at Kings Mountain: The Journal of Uzal Johnson, A Loyalist Surgeon. by Jim Piecuch; Kenny, Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866. by Susan J. Fernandez; Waters and Edmonds, A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. by Daniel James Flook; Sharpless, Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960. …


Some Thoughts On Spanish East And West Florida, James G. Cusick Apr 2022

Some Thoughts On Spanish East And West Florida, James G. Cusick

Florida Historical Quarterly

As Andrew McMichael points out in Atlantic Loyalties, the eastern Spanish borderlands of Louisiana and the Floridas suffered constant upheaval in the 40 years between 1778 and 1818. During those years, some fourteen different episodes of conspiracy, revolt, or invasion shook colonial society, beginning with the raids of James Willing in 1778 and carrying on through the First Seminole War of 1817-1818 (see Table 1).1 Although several of these upheavals stemmed from general warfare in the region, many were instigated by fairly small groups of men who played upon the discontent of fellow settlers or who drew on a base …


The Origins Of The Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, The West Florida Revolt, And The No Transfer Policy, William S. Belko Apr 2022

The Origins Of The Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, The West Florida Revolt, And The No Transfer Policy, William S. Belko

Florida Historical Quarterly

Late in October of 1810, as citizens and statesmen throughout the United States focused almost entirely on an imminent conflict with Great Britain and apprehensively monitored Napoleon's armies in Europe, the president of the United States, James Madison, quickly convened an emergency session of his cabinet members. Great Britain and Napoleon were not, however, the reason for calling the secret cabinet meeting. What occupied the attention of the executive branch was a little recognized rebellion in a sparsely populated region south of the Mississippi Territory. Two days after secretly conferring with his cabinet, on October 27, Madison issued a pivotal …


Introduction: Setting A Precedent For Regional Revolution: The West Florida Revolt Considered, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. Apr 2022

Introduction: Setting A Precedent For Regional Revolution: The West Florida Revolt Considered, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the course of its historical development, Florida has endured shifting and contested lines of demarcation. Few casual observers and likely a large percentage of the recent transplants to the Sunshine State, realize that Florida's borders once extended far beyond the current confines of the state. Many students of history are surprised to learn that Florida once included a significant portion of Louisiana. On the eve of the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase in 2003, scholars were hard pressed to explain to a skeptical public that all of the Bayou State was not a part of the Purchase. Despite President …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 90, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting; New Editorial Staff; 2011-2012 Florida Lecture Series; The Zora Neale Hurston in Brevard County Exhibition; Welcome to the Pensacola History Illustrated; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


The Catholic Diocese Of Miami And African American Desegregation, Mark Newman Apr 2022

The Catholic Diocese Of Miami And African American Desegregation, Mark Newman

Florida Historical Quarterly

In recent years, scholars have revised the traditional interpretation of Florida as being more moderate and progressive during the civil rights era than other southern states. They have also challenged the view that an influx of white northern migrants to south Florida made the region and state more amenable to desegregation. According to recent scholarship, even after state government officials reluctantly desegregated public accommodations as a result of the federal Civil Rights Act of l964, in south Florida, as elsewhere in the South, whites and African Americans remained largely residentially separate. Disputes over these issues had other ramifications as well. …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Garrigus and Morris, eds., Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World. by Light T. Cummins; Evans, A "Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Elite, 1680-1790. by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler; Ashton, I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. by Carmen V. Harris; Kennedy, Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood, and Social Networks in the Old South. by Blain Roberts; Pickenpaugh, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. by Jeremy Taylor; Martin, Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980. by Michael Oriard; Keirn and …


Blue Water, Brown Water, And Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar And Personal Naval Conflict In South Florida During The Civil War, Irvin D. S. Winsboro Apr 2022

Blue Water, Brown Water, And Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar And Personal Naval Conflict In South Florida During The Civil War, Irvin D. S. Winsboro

Florida Historical Quarterly

As Florida's political leaders voted on January 10, 1861, to follow the secessionist lead of South Carolina and Mississippi, former Florida Territorial Governor Richard Keith Call observed the multiple and shifting solidarities of the state and warned the winning faction that "you have opened the gates of Hell." Call's premonition swayed few power-brokers in Tallahassee, yet his words proved prophetic. Only in recent decades have historians of Florida's Civil War probed past the traditional interpretations of the state's experience as a "trifling affair" to establish how disruptive and hellish the conflict was on and to the home front. Indeed, scholars …


Crime And Punishment In Antebellum Pensacola, James M. Denham Apr 2022

Crime And Punishment In Antebellum Pensacola, James M. Denham

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the spring of 1828 Pensacola, Florida suffered a serious crime wave. The Escambia County Grand Jury with a "highly laudable determination to do their duty," found twenty bills of indictment after a "most laborious session of thirteen days. The panel indicted two men named Alvarez and Gray for murder, though both remained at large throughout the entire session. Convicted mail robber Martin Hutto escaped for the second time with a convicted burglar named Enoch Hoye who received the customary punishment for thieves: thirty-nine lashes (with ten extra stripes thrown in for good measure) and two hours on the pillory. …


2010 Friends Of The Florida Historical Society Keynote Lecture: The First Coming Of Judeo-Christian Religion To Florida, Michael Gannon Apr 2022

2010 Friends Of The Florida Historical Society Keynote Lecture: The First Coming Of Judeo-Christian Religion To Florida, Michael Gannon

Florida Historical Quarterly

We are foregathered this evening in what I like to call the United States' City of Centuries- four and a half to be exact come 2015. Among this city's many claims is that it served as the American nation's cradle of Western religion. Here in 1565 was founded the first Christian parish, named after the fifth century North African bishop and theologian Augustine of Hippo. Here, too, in 1587, was established the first Christian mission, named Nombre de Dios, to the native peoples of North America north of Mexico. In turn, those religious institutions gave rise to our state's and …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 90, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Cumulative Index, Volume 89, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Cumulative Index, Volume 89, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Florida History In Publications, 2010, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Florida History In Publications, 2010, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

O'Brien, Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860. by Timothy J. Williams; Hobson, McAdams, and Walkiewicz, eds., The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal. by Eric Gary Anderson; Wright and Glass, eds., Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt. by J. Vincent Lowery; Wells and Phipps, eds., Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. by Kathleen C. Berkeley; Hagood, Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth. by Patricia B. Angley


End Notes, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

End Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Frontiers: The Weekly Radio Magazine of the Florida Historical Society; Florida Historical Quarterly Podcasts; Florida Historical Quarterly Joins JSTOR; Florida Historical Quarterly now on Facebook; Special Thanks; Florida Historical Society 2011 Award Recipients; Guidelines for Submissions to the Florida Historical Quarterly


"The Most Exotic Of Our Cities": Race, Place, Writing, And George Allan England's Key West, Philip Levy Apr 2022

"The Most Exotic Of Our Cities": Race, Place, Writing, And George Allan England's Key West, Philip Levy

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the late 1920s, a prominent American writer arrived in Key West. He and his wife came to this Florida backwater to escape chilly winters and to carve out time for writing. Once settled in town, the writer gradually eased into the rhythms of Key West life. He built personal connections and began observing local characters who, in time, would re-emerge in his stories. He liked boats and the outdoors life. He had an inclination toward dangerous adventures and enjoyment of killing animals as well as an ability to convey these sentiments to audiences through popular literature. While in the …


The Servants And Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens And African American Life At Cross Creek, Rebecca Sharpless Apr 2022

The Servants And Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens And African American Life At Cross Creek, Rebecca Sharpless

Florida Historical Quarterly

The year is about 1940. It is evening at Cross Creek, the home of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a simple wood-frame house set among working orange groves near Hawthorne in North Central Florida. An unknown photographer is documenting an evening of dining and entertainment for Rawlings and a group of her friends, who like the author are white people of means and accomplishment. One photograph focuses on three African American women who are standing in a row and singing, their eyes cast upward, accompanied by a man on the harmonica. A second man leans on the head of a guitar, …


From Adventure Travel To Leisure Tourism: The Florida Letters Of William Drysdale In The New York Times, 1884-1893, Jesus Mendez Apr 2022

From Adventure Travel To Leisure Tourism: The Florida Letters Of William Drysdale In The New York Times, 1884-1893, Jesus Mendez

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Drysdale was a fixture in newspaper circles of New York City in the late nineteenth century, a reporter and writer whose powers of observation and social commentary made him equally at home covering famous legal battles of the time or describing his travels over many years in the United States, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. Fortunately for Florida, some of Drysdale's best literary pages chronicled important decades for the young state that would eventually build its fortune and its future on tourism. For 24 years, he wrote, often under the thinly disguised pseudonym of "W.D.", more …