How the New Deal built Florida tourism : The Civilian Conservation Corps and state parks (2019)
David J. Nelson (Author)
University Press of Florida
Physical Details: 296
Language: English
In 'How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism', David Nelson examines the creation of modern Florida tourism through the state and federal government during the Great Depression. And more specifically, with the Florida civic-elite's use of the Federal New Deal to develop state parks in order to re-boot Florida's depressed tourist industry.
...MoreReview Alyssa Warrick (2022) Review of "How the New Deal built Florida tourism : The Civilian Conservation Corps and state parks". Environmental History (pp. 176-178).
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