Miami : : Mistress of the Americas /

Miami : : Mistress of the Americas / / Jan Nijman.

As a subtropical city and the southernmost metropolitan area in the United States, Miami has always lured both visitors and migrants from throughout the Americas. During its first half-century they came primarily from the American North, then from the Latin South, and eventually from across the hemi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Nijman, Jan,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Metropolitan Portraits
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 30 b/w illus., 9 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Early Liaisons
  • Chapter 2. Shades of a City
  • Chapter 3. Extreme Makeover
  • Chapter 4. The Miami Growth Machine
  • Chapter 5. The Birth of a World City
  • Chapter 6. Transience and Civil Society
  • Chapter 7. Locals, Exiles, and Mobiles
  • Chapter 8. Elusive Subtropical Urbanism
  • Chapter 9. The First Hemispheric City
  • Appendix 1. The Transience Index
  • Appendix 2. Mapping Locals, Exiles, and Mobiles
  • Notes
  • Index

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