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Matthews. Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement by Ryan D. Groves; Mulroy. The Seminole Freedmen, A History by Daniel S. Murphree; Latimer. 1812 War with America by James Cusick; Cimbala and Shaw, editors. Making A New South: Race, Leadership, and Community after the Civil War by Robert A. Taylor; Sheehan-Dean. Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia by John Sacher; Savitt. Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth Century America by John David Smith; Ayala and Bernabe. Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 by Guadalupe Garcia; Spencer. A History of Gambling in Florida by Robert M. Jarvis; Kendrick and Walsh. A History of Florida Forests by Mark R. Finlay; Vickers and Dionne. Weeki Wachi: City of Mermaids, A History of Florida\u27s Oldest Roadside Attractions by Robert E. Snyde

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McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. by Lynn A. Nelson; Juricek, Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733-1763. by Matthew H. Jennings; Wayne, Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida. by Uzi Baram; Tuten, Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom. by Philip Mills Herrington; Slap, ed., Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War\u27s Aftermath. by John David Smith; Clegg III, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. by Bruce E. Baker; Holsaert, Prescod, Noonan, Richardson, Robinson, Young, and Zellner, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. by Derek Charles Catsam; Brands, Latin America\u27s Cold War. by Alison J. Bruey; Tuck, We Ain\u27t What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama. by Erica L. Ball; Revels, Sunshine Paradise: a History of Florida Tourism. by Larry Young

Market Power and Supply Shocks: Evidence from the Orange Juice Market

The orange juice market is a weather market because of its high geographical concentration and the natural characteristics of orange trees. A few hours of a freeze in Florida is enough to cause a supply shock to the orange juice market. How do oligopolistic firms react to supply shocks do they become more collusive or more competitive? This paper empirically examines the proposition and finds that the level of market power of orange juice firms decreases significantly, and the market becomes more competitive during supply shocks even though prices rise.Marketing,

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Tebeau, A History of Florida, by Dorothy Dodd; Pierce, Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida, by Ruby Leach Carson; Murray, Plant Wizard, The Life of Lue Gim Gong, by Wyatt Blassingame; Burrus and Hammond (eds.), Homenaje a Don José María de la Peña y Cámara, by Jack D. L. Holmes; Bannon, The Spanish Borderlands Frontier 1513-1821, by William S. Coker; Debo, A History of the Indians of the United States, by Kenneth Wiggins Porter; DeRosier, Jr., The Removal of the Choctaw Indians, by Louis De Vorsey, Jr.; Hamer, Rogers, and Wehage (eds.), The Papers of Henry Laurens, Volume II: Nov. 1, 1755-Dec. 31, 1758, by Richard Walsh; Mintz, Gouverneur Morris and the American Revolution, by Gilbert L. Lycan; Campbell, The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860, by John F. Reiger; terkx, Partners in Rebellion: Alabama Women in the Civil War, by Mary Elizabeth Massey; Wright, Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery, by John M. Belohlavek; Jordan, Frontier Law and Order: Ten Essays, by Richard A. Bartlett; Gatewood, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of Controversy: Episodes of the White House Years, by Robert F. Durden; Dick, The Lure of the Land: A Social History of the Public Lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal, by Waddy William Moore; Carleton, Technology and Humanism: Some Exploratory Essays for Our Times, by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr

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Reviews of Brooks, From Saddlebags to Satellites: A History of Florida Methodism, by Walter B. Posey; Brown, Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and Louisiana, 1814-1815: Critical Review of Strategy and Tactics at New Orleans, by Frank L. Owsley, Jr.; Gold, Borderland Empires in Transition: Triple-Nation Transfer of Florida, by John J. TePaske; Will, Swamp to Sugar Bowl: Pioneer Days in Belle Glade, by Jeanne Bellamy; Richards, Florida’s Hibiscus City: Vero Beach, by Ernest F. Lyons; Woodward, Pocahontas, by Robert R. Rea; Rogers, Jr., Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys, by Ernest M. Lander, Jr.; Royall (ed. by Griffith), Letters From Alabama, 1817-1822, by E. W. Carswell; Bauer, Surfboats and Horse Marines: U. S. Naval Operations in the Mexican War, 1846-48, by George E. Buker; McWhiney, Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. Volume I: Field Command, by John G. Barrett; Edelstein, Strange Enthusiasm: A Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, by Willie Lee Rose; Stampp and Litwack (eds.), Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings, by Jerrell H. Shofner; Cruden, The Negro in Reconstruction, and Thornbrough, Great Lives Observed: Booker T. Washington, by Augustus M. Burns, III.; Green, Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays, by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; Cousins, Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography, and Cook, Fire From The Flint: The Amazing Careers of Dixon, by Gerald E. Critoph; Peterson, History Under the Sea: A Handbook For Underwater Exploration, by Carl J. Clausen

Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years.

Climate change is driving the tropicalization of temperate ecosystems by shifting the range edges of numerous species poleward. Over the past few decades, mangroves have rapidly displaced salt marshes near multiple poleward mangrove range limits, including in northeast Florida. It is uncertain whether such mangrove expansions are due to anthropogenic climate change or natural climate variability. We combined historical accounts from books, personal journals, scientific articles, logbooks, photographs, and maps with climate data to show that the current ecotone between mangroves and salt marshes in northeast Florida has shifted between mangrove and salt marsh dominance at least 6 times between the late 1700s and 2017 due to decadal-scale fluctuations in the frequency and intensity of extreme cold events. Model projections of daily minimum temperature from 2000 through 2100 indicate an increase in annual minimum temperature by 0.5 °C/decade. Thus, although recent mangrove range expansion should indeed be placed into a broader historical context of an oscillating system, climate projections suggest that the recent trend may represent a more permanent regime shift due to the effects of climate change

Southward expansion: The myth of the West in the promotion of Florida, 1876–1900

This article examines the ways in which promoters and developers of Florida, in the decades after Reconstruction, engaged with a popular myth of the West as a means of recasting and selling their state to prospective settlers in the North and Midwest. The myth envisaged a cherished region to the west where worthy Americans could migrate and achieve social and economic independence away from the crowded confines of the East, or Europe. According to state immigration agents, land-promoters and other booster writers, Florida, although a Southern ex-Confederate state, offered precisely these 'western' opportunities for those hard-working Northerners seeking land and an opening for agrarian prosperity. However, the myth, which posited that, in the west, an individual's labour and thrift were rewarded with social and economic improvement, meshed awkwardly with the contemporary emergence of Florida as a popular winter destination for wealthy tourists and invalids seeking leisure and healthfulness away from the North. Yet it also reflected and reinforced promotional notions of racial improvement which would occur with an influx of enterprising Anglo-Americans, who would effectively displace the state's large African American population. In Florida, the myth of the West supported the linked post-Reconstruction processes of state development and racial subjugation

Book Reviews

A HISTORY OF FLORIDA THROUGH NEW WORLD MAPS: BORDERS OF PARADISE, reviewed by Meaghan N. Duff; THE BLACK SEMINOLES: HISTORY OF A FREEDOM-SEEKING PEOPLE, reviewed by Daniel C. Littlefield; BASEBALL IN FLORIDA, reviewed by Daniel Gilmartin; COMMITMENT TO A COMMUNITY: A HISTORY OF SACRED HEART HOSPITAL, reviewed by William M. Straight; CREOLES OF COLOR OF THE GULF SOUTH, reviewed by Gary B. Mills; JOHN STUART AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE ON THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER, reviewed by Andrew Frank; THE STRENGTH OF A PEOPLE: THE IDEA OF AN INFORMED CITIZENRY IN AMERICA, 1650-1870, reviewed by Harlow Sheidley; SLAVERY, CAPITALISM, AND POLITICS IN THE ANTEBELLUM REPUBLIC, VOLUME I: COMMERCE AND COMPROMISE, 1820-1850, reviewed by Stephen D. Engle; THE PAPERS OF ANDREW JACKSON, VOLUME IV, 1816-1820, AND VOLUME V, 1821-1824, reviewed by Ernest F. Dibble; Two MONTHS IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES: AN ENGLISHMAN\u27S TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH, reviewed by Jeffrey A. Melton; THE CIVIL WAR IN BOOKS: AN ANALYTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, reviewed by John M. Coski; TEMPERANCE & RACISM: JOHN BULL, JOHNNY REB, AND THE GOOD TEMPLARS, reviewed by John J. Guthrie Jr.; GENDER & JIM CROW: WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1896-1920, reviewed by Grace Elizabeth Hale; FEEBLE-MINDED IN OUR MIDST: INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED IN THE SOUTH, 1900-1940, reviewed by Ellen Dwyer; ALL OVER THE MAP: RETHINKING AMERICAN REGIONS, reviewed by Shirley A. Leckie; PISTOLS AND POLITICS: THE DILEMMA OF DEMOCRACY IN LOUISIANA’s FLORIDA PARISHES, 1810-1899, reviewed by Peter J. Kastor; DUST BowL MIGRANTS IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION, reviewed by Jack E. Davis; WOMEN OF THE FAR RIGHT: THE MOTHERS’ MOVEMENT AND WORLD WAR II, reviewed by Patricia A. Farles

Texas Treasury Warrants, 1861-1865: A Test Of The Tax-Backing Of Money

vThe Confederacy relied heavily on inflationary finance. Of the states of the Confederacy, only Texas was able throughout the war to enforce mandatory tax payments. In November 1864, Texas enacted fiscal measures designed to support the value of its state-issued currency, while it was increasing the amount in circulation. These measures were effective in doubling the value of the Texas warrants. As a result, Texas was able to continue to operate even after the defeat of the Confederacy elsewhere, until the state was overrun by Union forces. These results strongly support the tax-backing theory of money.

From Accession to Exemption: A Brief History of the Development of Alaska Property Exemption Laws

This Article examines the historical development of Alaska\u27s debtor protections from their beginnings in the period of initial federal administration to the present. The current Alaska statutes protecting certain property of debtors from their creditors descended from policies first enacted by Congress. Although federal authority began in 1867 with the area\u27s acquisition from Russia, Congress did not provide for governmental administration in Alaska until 1884, which act also provided Alaska its first debtor protection statutes. Extension of the federal Homestead Act to Alaska in 1898 brought the first protections for settlers\u27 homesteads from their creditors. By 1912 and the creation of the territorial government, Congress had set the basic structure of debtor protection in Alaska. Unlike those states which insisted historically on placing certain debtor protections within their constitutions, public policy in Alaska has deemed statutory structures adequate to protect a debtor\u27s interests