Miami

Released on by Anthony P. Maingot
preview-18

  • Miami Book Detail

  • Author : Anthony P. Maingot
  • Release Date : 2014-07-30
  • Publisher : Interlink Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 265
  • ISBN 13 : 1623710618
  • File Size : 65,65 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Miami by Anthony P. Maingot PDF Summary

Book Description: Sociologist and Miami resident Anthony P. Maingot has written a cultural history of this vibrant city, which boasts the highest percentage of foreign-born residents in the US. Miami, or “Sweet Water” in the Creek Indian language, is one of the newest cities in the United States. While northern Florida was fought over by European powers and finally taken by the Americans as part of the slave-worked plantation South, Miami lay largely ignored and populated by more alligators than humans until its incorporation as a city in 1896. The driving force was Henry Flagler, who brought his railroad down to Miami and from there to Key West—and trade with Cuba. Once settled, “Tin Can” tourists from the North, Midwest and South rode their Model-T Fords down to Florida and Miami and the boom in land sales began. After the Prohibition period and the heyday of the bootleggers, a new but still segregated Miami emerged from the Second World War. Miami Beach became a tourist mecca and once Disney World opened in Orlando, millions passed through Miami to reach it and Florida and Miami entered a new era of growth and development. It was Fidel Castro, however, who created present-day Miami by exiling over a million of Cuba's middle class. Showing enormous entrepreneurial skill and an exuberant taste for life, Cubans and more recently, Brazilians, Venezuelans and Colombians created the first Latin and “tropical” city in the US. Anthony P. Maingot explores the momentous history and vibrant culture of this most cosmopolitan city. With the highest percentage of foreign-born residents in the US, Miami is a melting-pot of music, dance, visual arts, cuisine sports and political argument. Maingot reveals how this unique cultural mix keeps the new city humming and ensures the perpetuation of its tropical joie de vivre. * City of migrants and tourists: “capital of Latin America and the Caribbean”; Little Havana and Little Haiti; exiles and entrepreneurs; the world's biggest cruise ship hub. * • City of crime: the Prohibition boom; Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and the mob; Miami Vice and modern-day drug crime. * City of culture: art deco architecture; the Latin recording industry; writers of the Caribbean Diaspora; center of performing arts.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Miami books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Miami

Miami

File Size : 21,21 MB
Total View : 5481 Views
DOWNLOAD

Sociologist and Miami resident Anthony P. Maingot has written a cultural history of this vibrant city, which boasts the highest percentage of foreign-born resid

The United States and the Caribbean

The United States and the Caribbean

File Size : 90,90 MB
Total View : 8476 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of post-Cold War US-Caribbean relations. Focusing on Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Trinidad-Tobago,

The United States and the Caribbean

The United States and the Caribbean

File Size : 77,77 MB
Total View : 1767 Views
DOWNLOAD

Essays on issues and problems facing this multicultural, multilingual and multiracial area, stressing the need for a re-evaluation of U.S. foreign policy.

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought

File Size : 34,34 MB
Total View : 3245 Views
DOWNLOAD

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideo