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Florida Fiasco

Author : Rembert W. Patrick
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820335495
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Florida Fiasco written by Rembert W. Patrick and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1954, Rembert Patrick's Florida Fiasco details the aggressive schemes developed by President Madison and Secretary of State Monroe in the attempted acquisition of Florida. Patrick shows that George Matthews's influence over General John McIntosh inspired him to plan a revolt in east Florida in the hopes of turning the conquered territory over to Matthews. The plot was thwarted when Spanish minister Luis de Onis heard of the coming attack and appealed to the British. Thus begins the five-year attempt which was led in succession by George Matthews, David Mitchell, and Thomas A. Mitchell. Patrick's account includes the plotting of undercover agents, manipulation of discontented nationals, denials by high officials, and adventurers seeking rich rewards.

Florida Fiasco

Author : Rembert Wallace Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820302935
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Florida Fiasco written by Rembert Wallace Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Florida Fiasco

Author : Rembert Wallace Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820302935
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Florida Fiasco written by Rembert Wallace Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hanging Chads

Author : J. Pleasants
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403973407
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Hanging Chads written by J. Pleasants and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the real story behind the 2000 presidential election fiasco? Hanging Chads presents candid and insightful interviews with key figures in the post-election recount in Florida, which decided whether Al Gore or George W. Bush would win the closest presidential contest ever. The book features an introduction that clearly explains the often complex and convoluted legal manoeuvering that occurred during those tense thirty-six days of the recount, a timeline laying out the sequence of events, a cast of characters that identifies the key players on both sides, and a glossary of the court cases and legal terminology that came into play. Pleasants interviews the two main Florida lawyers, Dexter Douglass for Gore and Barry Richard for Bush, and discusses the decision-making process with three judges involved in key cases. The book includes the viewpoint of the press and key political players like Tom Feeney, the Florida legislature's Speaker of the House, and Mac Stipanovich, a key political advisor to Katherine Harris. In addition, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore explains why she chose the infamous butterfly ballot that sent the whole process into motion. Providing a unique and balanced insiders' view of one of the most important events in recent history, Hanging Chads is a must-have for students and historians of American politics.

Florida's Frontiers

Author : Paul E. Hoffman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253108784
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Florida's Frontiers written by Paul E. Hoffman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soil, flora and fauna, the patterns of Native American occupation, and ways of colonizing have defined Florida's frontiers. Paul E. Hoffman tells the story of those frontiers and how the land and the people shaped them during the three centuries from 1565 to 1860. For settlers to La Florida, the American Southeast ca. 1500, better natural and human resources were found on the piedmont and on the western side of Florida's central ridge, while the coasts and coastal plains proved far less inviting. But natural environment was only one important factor in the settlement of Florida. The Spaniards, the British, the Seminole and Miccosuki, the Spaniards once again, and finally Americans constructed their Florida frontiers in interaction with the Native Americans who were present, the vestiges of earlier frontiers, and international events. The near-completion of the range and township surveys by 1860 and of the deportation of most of the Seminole and Miccosuki mark the end of the Florida frontier, though frontier-like conditions persisted in many parts of the state into the early 20th century. For this major work of Florida history, Hoffman has drawn from a broad range of secondary works and from his intensive research in Spanish archival sources of the 16th and 17th centuries. Florida's Frontiers will be welcomed by students of history well beyond the Sunshine State.

Inside Bush v. Gore

Author : Charley Wells
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813047463
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Inside Bush v. Gore written by Charley Wells and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanging chads. Butterfly ballots. Unruly demonstrations across the country. A state capital occupied by the national press corps. For thirty-six excruciating days in late 2000, a nation held its breath while seven men held in their hands the fate of the presidential election in Florida. The events that transpired within the justices’ chambers?their arguments, exhortations, and appeals to one another?have remained a mystery . . . until now. Inside Bush v. Gore presents the unique, candid, and compelling perspective of the Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice who stood at the center of the storm.

The History Mystery Kids 1

Author : Daniel Kenney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947865754
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book The History Mystery Kids 1 written by Daniel Kenney and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic Tree House Meets Dr. Who Professor Abner Jefferson is missing. His children watched him get sucked into a book. Now they must find him. By going back... through History! Read the 1st of the 10 History Mystery Kids books and experience the series parents are calling: -Like Magic Tree House but with more laughs, more danger, and more History Get it now The History Mystery Kids -Book 1: Fiasco in Florida -Book 2: Magic in Michigan -Book 3: Midnight in Massachusetts -Book 4: Camping in Colorado -Book 5: Sabotage in South Carolina Coming September 2020 -Book 6: Cows in California Coming December 2020 -Book 7: Puzzle in Pennsylvania Coming Spring 2021 -Book 8: Ice Storm in Illinois Coming Summer 2021 -Book 9: Nightmare in New Jersey Coming Spring 2022 -Book 10: Traitors in Tennessee Coming Summer 2022

The Seminole Struggle

Author : John Missall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683340701
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Seminole Struggle written by John Missall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we published our initial work on the Seminole Wars in 2004, we lamented the fact that such an important series of events was widely unknown to the American public in general and to the majority of Floridians. Not that we should have been surprised: The war was fought in one small corner of the nation and therefore of little concern to Americans as a whole, and most Floridians weren’t born in the state and would have had little opportunity to learn about the wars. Yet it shouldn’t have been that way. The Seminole Wars were a major conflict for the nation and arguably one of the most formative events for the State of Florida. The Indian Wars of the American West are famous worldwide, yet the Seminole Wars were bigger than any western Indian war. The foundations for most of Florida’s great cities are a result of the Seminole Wars, yet few of those cities’ residents are aware of the fact. It was an historical oversight we felt was in need of correction.

Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida’s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor

Author : Canter Brown, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807168602
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida’s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor written by Canter Brown, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821–1874)—a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party in Florida, and a Reconstruction-era governor of the state—from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart’s life and career, Brown offers new insight into the political problems of the day—the role of Unionism in Deep South politics in particular—and enriches our understanding of the complexities of Reconstruction. Brown traces Hart’s life from his privileged childhood in the newly founded port town of Jacksonville through his service as a volunteer soldier in the Second Seminole War, his education in South Carolina, and the dawn of his legal and political career on Florida’s Atlantic frontier to his election as governor in 1872 and his premature death sixteen months later. Brown’s multifaceted biography offers a rare glimpse at the persistence of Loyalism in the post-Civil War South and clearly illustrates the pivotal role played by both Loyalists and African Americans in southern politics of that era and how these two groups merged to resist carpetbag rule.

Florida's Past

Author : Gene Burnett
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781561641178
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Florida's Past written by Gene Burnett and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence. Read a chapter and you'll find you've gone on to read more. Read this volume and you'll find yourself looking for the next two. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Florida's Past, Vol 3

Author : Gene Burnett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561647608
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Florida's Past, Vol 3 written by Gene Burnett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence. Read a chapter and you'll find you've gone on to read more. Read this volume and you'll find yourself looking for the next two. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Old Hickory's War

Author : David Heidler
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807128671
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Old Hickory's War written by David Heidler and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans hero General Andrew Jackson became a power unto himself. He had earlier gained national acclaim and a military promotion upon successfully leading the West Tennessee militia in the Creek War of 1813--1814, Jackson furthered his fame in the First Seminole War in 1818, which led to his invasion of Spanish West Florida without presidential or congressional authorization and to the execution of two British subjects. In Old Hickory's War, David and Jeanne Heidler present an iconoclastic interpretation of the political, military, and ethnic complexities of Jackson's involvement in those two historic episodes. Their exciting narrative shows how the general's unpredictable behavior and determination to achieve his goals, combined with a timid administration headed by James Monroe, brought the United States to the brink of an international crisis in 1818 and sparked the longest congressional debate of the period.

Florida

Author : Robert A. Taylor
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 : 9780781810524
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Florida written by Robert A. Taylor and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida has the longest recorded history of any state, dating back to the journeys of Spanish conquistadores in the early sixteenth century. From the voyages of Ponce de León to the dawn of the Space Age, Florida has played an important role in the history of the United States. This concise history shows Florida's evolution from European colony to American state and jewel of the Sunbelt. It chronicles the struggles between the United States and Spain, the trauma of the Civil War, and the great booms of development in the twentieth century, as well as how Floridians have grappled with the problems of over development in the 'Sunshine State'. Over 50 illustrations, photographs, and maps enrich this text, which is perfect for the vacationer, the student, and all curious readers.

Finding Florida

Author : T. D. Allman
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802193730
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Finding Florida written by T. D. Allman and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Nominee and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year. Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, “God’s waiting room,” and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it’s home to nineteen million. The site of vicious racial violence, including massacres, slavery, and the roll-back of Reconstruction, Florida is now one of our most diverse states, a dynamic multicultural place with an essential role in twenty-first-century America. In Finding Florida, T. D. Allman reclaims the remarkable history of Florida from the state’s mythologizers, apologists, and boosters. Allman traces the discovery, exploration, and settlement of Florida, its transformation from a swamp to “paradise.” Palm Beach, Key West, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando boomed, fortunes were won and lost, land was stolen and flipped, and millions arrived. The product of a decade of research and writing, Finding Florida is the first modern comprehensive history of this fascinating place. “A take-no-prisoners account . . . Extremely timely and relevant.” —The New York Times Book Review “The Seminole Wars, the Civil War, various massacres, Reconstruction, a second Reconstruction, Disney World, the Marielitos, voter suppression—it’s all here, and even Carl Hiaasen couldn’t make it up.” —Booklist, starred review

Slavery in Florida

Author : Larry Eugene Rivers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059267
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Slavery in Florida written by Larry Eugene Rivers and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important illustrated social history of slavery tells what life was like for bond servants in Florida from 1821 to 1865, offering new insights from the perspective of both slave and master. Starting with an overview of the institution as it evolved during the Spanish and English periods, Larry E. Rivers looks in detail and in depth at the slave experience, noting the characteristics of slavery in the Middle Florida plantation belt (the more traditional slave-based, cotton-growing economy and society) as distinct from East and West Florida (which maintained some attitudes and traditions of Spain). He examines the slave family, religion, resistance activity, slaves’ participation in the Civil War, and their social interactions with whites, Indians, other slaves, and masters. Rivers also provides a dramatic account of the hundreds of armed free blacks and runaways among the Seminole, Creek, and Mikasuki Indians on the peninsula, whose presence created tensions leading to the great slave rebellion, the Second Seminole War (1835-42). Slavery in Florida is built upon painstaking research into virtually every source available on the subject--a wealth of historic documents, personal papers, slave testimonies, and census and newspaper reports. This serious critical work strikes a balance between the factual and the interpretive. It will be significant to all readers interested in slavery, the Civil War, the African American experience, and Florida and southern U.S. history, and it could serve as a comprehensive resource for secondary school teachers and students.

Stealing Elections

Author : John Fund
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 159403270X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Stealing Elections written by John Fund and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don't exist. If nothing is done to address the growing cynicism about vote counting, rest assured that another close presidential election that descends into bitter partisan wrangling is just around the corner.

The History of Florida

Author : Michael Gannon
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063787
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The History of Florida written by Michael Gannon and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the heralded “definitive history” of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 years in the Land of Sunshine. Twenty-three leading historians, assembled by renowned scholar Michael Gannon, offer a wealth of perspectives and expertise to create a comprehensive, balanced view of Florida’s sweeping story. The chapters cover such diverse topics as the maritime heritage of Florida, the exploits of the state’s first developers, the astounding population boom of the twentieth century, and the environmental changes that threaten the future of Florida’s beautiful wetlands. Celebrating Florida’s role at the center of important historical movements, from the earliest colonial interactions in North America to the nation’s social and political climate today, The History of Florida is an invaluable resource on the complex past of this dynamic state. Contributors: Charles W. Arnade | Canter Brown Jr. | Amy Turner Bushnell | David R. Colburn | William S. Coker | Amy Mitchell-Cook | Jack E. Davis | Robin F. A. Fabel | Michael Gannon | Thomas Graham | John H. Hann | Dr Della Scott-Ireton | Maxine D. Jones | Jane Landers | Eugene Lyon | John K. Mahon | Jerald T. Milanich | Raymond A. Mohl | Gary R. Mormino | Susan Richbourg Parker | George E. Pozzetta | Samuel Proctor | William W. Rogers | Daniel L. Schafer | Jerrell H. Shofner | Dr. Robert A. Taylor | Brent R. Weisman