La Florida : five hundred years of Hispanic presence / edited by Viviana Díaz Balsera and Rachel A. May.

Contributor Díaz Balsera, Viviana, 1957- editor.

Imprint:Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2014]

Descriptionxv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Note:"A Florida quincentennial book"--Title page verso.

Note:Introduction. Ponce's ghosts : Spain and Florida, 1513-2013 / Gary R. Mormino -- Part I. La Florida : first and second Spanish periods. Introduction : three hundred years of La Florida / Viviana Díaz Balsera -- Charting Juan Ponce de León's 1513 voyage to Florida : the Calusa Indians amid latitudes of controversy / Jerald T. Milanich -- "Until the land was understood" : Spaniards confront La Florida, 1500-1600 / Paul E. Hoffman -- On the trail of texts from early Spanish Florida : Garcilaso's La Florida del Inca and Oré's Relación de los mártires / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez -- A land renowned for war : Florida as a maritime marchland / Amy Turner Bushnell -- "Giving liberty to all" : Spanish Florida as a Black sanctuary, 1673-1790 / Jane Landers -- The experience of a loss : Spain, Florida, and the United States (1783-1833) / Carmen de la Guardia Herrero -- Part II. Postcolonial and contemporary Florida. Introduction : Florida in the modern world / Rachel A. May -- Fireworks over Fernandina : the Atlantic dimension of the Amelia Island episode, 1817 / Karen Racine -- The old world in the new : Florida discovers the arts of Spain, 1885-1930 / Richard L. Kagan -- Performing diasporas, or Cubanidad meets Jim Crow : Miami in a period of demographic transition before the Cuban Revolution / Darién J. Davis -- Mickey Ricans? The recent Puerto Rican diaspora to Florida / Jorge Duany -- Miami in the twenty-first century : still on the edge? / Alex Stepick and Marcos Feldman -- How Cubans transformed Florida politics and gained national influence / Susan Eckstein.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"Commemorating Juan Ponce de León's landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida, this ambitious volume explores five centuries of Hispanic presence in the New World peninsula, reflecting on the breadth and depth of encounters between the different lands and cultures. The contributors, leading experts in a range of fields, begin with an examination of the first and second Spanish periods. This was a time when La Florida was an elusive possession that the Spaniards were never able to completely secure; but Spanish influence would nonetheless leave an indelible mark on the land. In the second half of this volume, the essays highlight the Hispanic cultural legacy, politics, and history of modern Florida and expand on Florida's role as a modern transatlantic cross roads." -- Publisher's description.

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