Book ID: CBB393196795

How the New Deal built Florida tourism : The Civilian Conservation Corps and state parks (2019)

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David J. Nelson (Author)


University Press of Florida


Publication Date: 2019
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.

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Authors & Contributors
Arsenault, Raymond
Davis, Jack E.
Dunaway, Finis
Frank, Jerry J.
Harvey, Thomas J.
Maher, Neil M.
Journals
Environmental History
Acque Sotterranee
Publishers
Cornell University Press
University Press of Florida
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oxford University Press
University of Alberta Press
University of Florida
Concepts
Environmental history
Tourism
Parks
Environmentalism
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Forests and forestry
People
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Ancient
Places
United States
Florida (U.S.)
Rocky Mountains (U.S.)
Colorado (U.S.)
Caribbean
Israel
Institutions
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
United States. Farm Security Administration
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