Key West on the edge
Subtitle: inventing the Conch Republic
By: Robert Kerstein
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813038056
Subjects: Social conditions; Tourism; Economic conditions; Social change; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Key West's First Hundred Years : Wrecking, the Military, Cigar Making, and a Few Tourists; title: The Not-so-Roaring Twenties; title: The Depression and War Years : Tourism Dreams Give Way to Military Realities; title: Key West, 1945-1970 : Not a Clean Well-Lighted Place; title: Postwar Tourism; title: Island of Intrigue : Key West in the 1970s; title: Key West in Transition; title: The Gay Community and the Transformation of Key West; title: Key West in the 1980s and 1990s : Bringing in the Tourists; title: The Politics of Tourism and Development; title: Shelter for the Labor Force?; title: Island Tensions in the Twenty-first Century : Mass Tourism and Rising Real Estate Values in a "Unique" Community; title: One Human Family?; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix.