Key West on the edge : inventing the Conch Republic
Title:
Key West on the edge : inventing the Conch Republic
Author:
Publication Information:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
Physical Description:
viii, 373 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series:
The Florida history and culture series
Florida history and culture series.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Key West's First Hundred Years : Wrecking, the Military, Cigar Making, and a Few Tourists -- The Not-so-Roaring Twenties -- The Depression and War Years : Tourism Dreams Give Way to Military Realities -- Key West, 1945-1970 : Not a Clean Well-Lighted Place -- Postwar Tourism -- Island of Intrigue : Key West in the 1970s -- Key West in Transition -- The Gay Community and the Transformation of Key West -- Key West in the 1980s and 1990s : Bringing in the Tourists -- The Politics of Tourism and Development -- Shelter for the Labor Force? -- Island Tensions in the Twenty-first Century : Mass Tourism and Rising Real Estate Values in a "Unique" Community -- One Human Family? -- Conclusion -- Appendix.
