The New History of Florida, the first comprehensive history of the state to be written in a quarter of a century, is the culmination of the most recent and sign

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

Praise for the previous edition: "A major new history."--Miami Herald "A jewel."--Tallahassee Democrat "The standard reference."--Orlando Sentinel "As interesti

A prize-winning r"Washington Post" reporter tells the story of the Florida Everglades, from its beginnings as 4,500 off-putting square miles of natural liquid w

Mid-twentieth-century Florida was a state in flux. Changes exemplified by rapidly burgeoning cities and suburbs, the growth of the Kennedy Space Center during t