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Growth Management in Florida
Despite its historical significance and its state-mandated comprehensive planning approach, the Florida growth management experiment has received only piecemeal attention from researchers. Drawing together contributions from national experts on land use planning and growth management, this volume assesses the outcomes of Florida?s approach for managing growth. As Florida?s approach is the most detailed system for managing growth in the United States, this book will be of great value to planners. The strengths and weaknesses of the state?s approach are identified, providing insights into how to manage land use change in a state continuously inundated by growth. In evaluating the successes and failures of the Florida approach, planners and policy makers will gain insights into how to successfully implement growth management policies at both the state and local level.
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Frommer's easyguide to Miami & the Keys
David Paul Appell, a resident of Miami, has an illustrious record in journalism, including scores of travel articles for major magazines, and long stints as a top editor of important travel magazines. This new edition of his previous \"Miami and Key West\" has been brought thoroughly up-to-date, including close attention to towns along the route to Key West, and to the continuing growth of Miami and Miami Beach in art galleries, museums, nightspots, and remarkable restaurants. As a fervent admirer of south Florida, he brings both color and practicality to this Easy Guide.
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Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City
In addition to being a religious countryùover ninety percent of Americans believe in God--the United States is also home to more immigrants than ever before.Churches and Charity in the Immigrant Cityfocuses on the intersection of religion and civic engagement among Miami's immigrant and minority groups. The contributors examine the role of religious organizations in developing social relationships and how these relationships affect the broader civic world. Essays, for example, consider the role of leadership in the promotion and creation of \"civic social capital\" in a Haitian Catholic church, transnational ties between Cuban Catholics in Miami and Havana, and several African American congregations that serve as key comparisons of civic engagement among minorities.
This book is important not only for its theoretical contributions to the sociology of religion, but also because it gives us a unique glimpse into immigrants' civic and religious lives in urban America.
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Cat chaser
The hero of Cat Chaser, George Moran, isn't looking for trouble but finds it anyway when he winds up in bed with the wife of a drug-dealing mob-connected Dominican cop -- vicious, macho and ready to follow George to the ends of the earth, which in this case means Miami.
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Communists and Perverts under the Palms
In 1956, state Senator Charley Johns was appointed the chairman of the newly formed Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, now remembered as the Johns Committee. This group was charged with the task of unearthing communist tendencies, homosexual persuasions, and anything they saw as subversive behavior in academic institutions throughout Florida. With the cooperation of law enforcement, the committee interrogated and spied on countless individuals, including civil rights activists, college students, public school teachers, and university faculty and administrators.
Today, the actions of the Johns Committee are easily dismissed as homophobic and bigoted.Communists and Perverts under the Palms reveals how the creation of the committee was a logical and unsurprising result of historic societal anxieties about race, sexuality, obscenity, and liberalism. Stacy Braukman illustrates how the responses to those societal anxieties, particularly the Johns Committee, laid the foundation for the resurgence of conservatism in the 1960s. Braukman is considered and nuanced in her stance, refusing a blanket condemnation of the extremism of a committee whose influence, even decades after its dissolution, continues to be felt in the culture wars of today.
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Atlantic Loyalties
Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded--or swayed--the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the colonial Spanish administration's attitude toward resident Americans. The Spanish borderlands systems of slavery and land ownership, McMichael shows, used an efficient system of land distribution and government patronage that engendered loyalty and withstood a series of conflicts that tested, but did not shatter, residents' allegiance. McMichael focuses on the Baton Rouge district of Spanish West Florida from 1785 through 1810, analyzing why resident Anglo-Americans, who had maintained a high degree of loyalty to the Spanish Crown through 1809, rebelled in 1810. The book contextualizes the 1810 rebellion, and by extension the southern frontier, within the broader Atlantic World, showing how both local factors as well as events in Europe affected lives in the Spanish borderlands. Breaking with traditional scholarship, McMichael examines contests over land and slaves as a determinant of loyalty. He draws on Spanish, French, and Anglo records to challenge scholarship that asserts a particularly \"American\" loyalty on the frontier whereby Anglo-American residents in West Florida, as disaffected subjects of the Spanish Crown, patiently abided until they could overthrow an alien system. Rather, it was political, social, and cultural conflicts--not nationalist ideology--that disrupted networks by which economic prosperity was gained and thus loyalty retained.
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Monitor lizard
The Monitor Lizard is large; adults can grow up to 7 feet. This book examines its habits, and the dangers it presents to the habitats that it has invaded, particularly Florida.
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The Cana Sanctuary
Uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred
Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed,
to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to
constitute an intellectual history of everyday people caught in
the path of an expanding American empire In the late
seventeenth century a group of about a dozen escaped African
slaves from the English colony of Carolina reached the Spanish
settlement of St. Augustine. In a diplomatic bid for sanctuary,
to avoid extradition and punishment, they requested the sacrament
of Catholic baptism from the Spanish Catholic Church. Their
negotiations brought about their baptism and with it their
liberation.
The Cana Sanctuary focuses on what author Frank Marotti
terms “folk diplomacy”—political actions
conducted by marginalized, non-state sectors of society—in
this instance by formerly enslaved African Americans in
antebellum East Florida. The book explores the unexpected
transformations that occurred in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century St. Augustine as more and more ex-slaves
arrived to find their previously disregarded civil rights upheld
under sacred codes by an international, nongovernmental,
authoritative organization. With the Catholic Church acting as an
equalizing, empowering force for escaped African slaves, the
Spanish religious sanctuary policy became part of popular
historical consciousness in East Florida. As such, it allowed for
continual confrontations between the law of the Church and the
law of the South. Tensions like these survived, ultimately
lending themselves to an “Afro-Catholicism” sentiment
that offered support for antislavery arguments.
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