Florida’s population explosion from 3 million to 17 million during the last half of the 20th century has stressed and altered our fragile ecosystem. Our bookshelf includes books about water management, the Everglades, urban sprawl, rivers, and agriculture.
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A Flash of Green
John D. MacDonald's novel was the source material for A Flash of Green. Ed Harris plays a reporter f ...read more
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A History of Florida
A one-volume history of the Florida peninsula and Panhandle, whose long and varied story has been wr ...read more
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Adaptation
Actor Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inade ...read more
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Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf
The Red Hills Writers Project produced a book of diverse and remarkable essays about the cultural an ...read more
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Cracker: Cracker Culture in Florida History
For more than 200 years scholars have attempted to define the Crackers who trailblazed Florida. But ...read more
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Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades
Crackers in the Glade is a visually stunning account of bygone days in the Everglades. The largest r ...read more
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Ecosystems of Florida
In this first comprehensive guide to the state’s natural resources in 60 years, 30 top scholars desc ...read more
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Florida Cowman, A History of Florida Cattle Raising
Beginning with the arrival of the first cattle in 1521, Florida Cowman traces the founding of Florid ...read more
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Florida: A Short History
Historian Michael Gannon recounts the longest recorded history of any state in the nation in 27 bris ...read more
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Florida’s Hurricane History
In this book, Jay Barnes offers a fascinating and informative look at Florida’s hurricane history. D ...read more
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Florida’s Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida
Florida began the 20th century as the least-populated of the southern states, with a rural, agricult ...read more
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Gator Tales: An Oral History of the University of Florida
This lively, anecdotal history provides an intimate look at the University’s last 100 years—from the ...read more
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Harvest of Shame
This landmark 1960 “CBS Reports” documentary exposed the harsh living conditions of America’s migran ...read more
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a ...read more
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Land into Water, Water into Land: A History of Water Management in Florida
For almost a century and a half Florida’s land and water endured ambitious developers who had little ...read more
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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
For almost a century and a half, Florida’s land and water endured developers who had little use for ...read more
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Legends of the Seminoles
Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to liste ...read more
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Living Waters: Aquatic Preserves of Florida
Living Waters: Aquatic Preserves of Florida highlights the environmental and economic significance o ...read more
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Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape
Losing It All to Sprawl is the poignant journal of award-winning nature writer Bill Belleville and h ...read more
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Told through a colorful cast of characters including Walt Disney, Jeb Bush, and Texas oilman T. Boon ...read more
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Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida
This collection of essays surveys the environmental history of the Sunshine State, from Spanish expl ...read more
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River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida’s St. Johns River
Steamships, which first hauled cargo up and down the St. Johns River for early settlers and rugged f ...read more
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Small Towns, Sprawl and the Politics of Policy Choices: The Florida Experience
In Small Towns, Sprawl and the Politics of Policy Choices, Gary Mattson explores the limitations of ...read more
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Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida
For 500 years, visitors to Florida have discovered magic. In Some Kind of Paradise, an eloquent soci ...read more
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St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream
St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888–1950 chronicles the early history of this city and the lo ...read more
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Sunshine State
The motion picture Sunshine State is set on Plantation Island, Florida, a place where local real est ...read more
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The Everglades of Florida, unpublished dissertation
The drainage and reclamation of the Florida Everglades has proven to be an enormous undertaking frau ...read more
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The Everglades: An Environmental History (The Florida History and Culture)
This important work for general readers and environmentalists alike offers the first major discussio ...read more
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The Florida Reader: Visions of Paradise from 1530 to the Present
As the first part of the North American continent to be explored and settled, Florida has a long and ...read more
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The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it ...read more
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The Wild Heart of Florida
This film takes the viewer on a series of adventures accompanying writers, photographers, and artist ...read more
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The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida Writers on Florida’s Wildlands
Eighteen of Florida’s best-loved writers share their affection for Florida’s wild side—the beautiful ...read more
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Totch Brown’s Tales of the Everglades
Loren G. “Totch” Brown was born on Southwest Florida's Chokoloskee Island in 1920. His tales are mem ...read more
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Weird Florida
Ah, Florida: sun, surf, sand, South Beach, and senior citizens. That’s about it, right? Well, no, no ...read more
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