Miami
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: Anthony P. Maingot
Series: Cultural histories
Publisher: Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Northampton, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781566569835
Subjects: Civilization; History; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Conquering the northern frontier: settling South Florida; title: Prohibition, the Depression, and World War II: from backwater to open city; title: The battles against Jim Crow and organized crime: unfinished agendas; title: Alegría tropical: Cuban nostalgia and the character of Miami; title: Worlds apart: Puerto Ricans and Haitians in a racially unsettled city; title: Miami vice and Miami nice: fiction and reality; title: High and low culture: architecture, education, and "turf"; title: City of the future: global or cosmopolitan?