Henry Bradley Plant: Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8173-5966-9
Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

The first biography of Henry Bradley Plant, the entrepreneur and business magnate considered the father of modern Florida.
 
In this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant's influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. One of the preeminent historians of Florida, Brown brings this important but understudied figure in American history to the foreground.
 
Henry Bradley Plant: Gilded Age Dreams for Florida and a New South carefully examines the complicated years of adventure and activity that marked Plant's existence, from his birth in Connecticut in 1819 to his somewhat mysterious death in New York City in 1899. Brown illuminates Plant's vision and perspectives for the state of Florida and the country as a whole and traces many of his influences back to events from his childhood and early adulthood. The book also elaborates on Plant's controversial Civil War relationships and his utilization of wartime earnings in the postwar era to invest in the bankrupt Southern rail lines. With the success of his businesses such as the Southern Express Company and the Tampa Bay Hotel, Plant transformed Florida into a hub for trade and tourism-traits we still recognize in the Florida of today.
 
This thoroughly researched biography fills important gaps in Florida's social and economic history and sheds light on a historical figure to an extent never previously undertaken or sufficiently appreciated. Both informative and innovative, this history will be a valuable resource for scholars and general readers interested in Southern history, business history, Civil War-era history, and transportation history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Canter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Formative Years: 1819 to 1834
- 2. New Haven: 1834 to 1844
- 3. Recovery: 1844 to 1854
- 4. Southern Ways: 1854 to 1859
- 5. Unwanted Conflict: 1859 to 1863
- 6. A Work of Reconstruction: 1863 to 1868
- 7. Flush Times: 1868 to 1873
- 8. The Panic: 1873 to 1878
- 9. Florida and the Pearl of the Antilles: 1878 to 1882
- 10. Tampa: 1882 to 1886
- 11. Transportation and Tourism: 1886 to 1889
- 12. Unanticipated Outcomes: 1889 to 1893
- 13. In the Midst of Calamity: 1893 to 1896
- 14. War and Peace: 1896 to 1899
- Afterword: The Ephemeral Nature of Legacies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Canter Brown Jr. has taught in the history and political science departments at Florida A&M University. He is author or coauthor of many books, including Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924; Fort Meade, 1849-1900; The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972; and, with Larry Eugene Rivers, Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works.