The sunshine economy
Subtitle: an economic history of Florida since the Civil War
By: William B. Stronge.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780813032016
Subjects: Florida -- Economic conditions; Florida -- History -- 1865-
Description: "This book traces the economic development of Florida from the Civil War to the present. One of the nation's most sparsely populated states at the end of that war, with fewer than 200,000 persons, it was on its way to becoming the fourth most populous in the nation at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Sunshine State leapt from a small economy on the periphery at the end of the nineteenth century to one of the major economies of the United States by the end of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1900 : A Western economy in a Southern setting; title: The transfer of public lands; title: Developing the rail network; title: Sunshine agriculture before 1900; title: Tourism before 1930; title: The 1920s : urbanization, boom, and collapse; title: 1930 : a frontier economy with a sunshine sector; title: 1930-1945 : depression, recovery, and war; title: 1945-1960 : postwar readjustment and boom; title: 1960 : the rise of the sunshine economy; title: The 1960s and 1970s : slowdown, boom, and recession; title: 1980 : a Northern population in a Southern setting; title: The 1980s and 1990s : economic strength and slowdown; title: 2000 : a tourism-retirement economy; title: The future economic development of Florida; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.