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Florida State University - Summer 2012 | ||
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Some Kind of Paradise: A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida (Florida Sand Dollar Books) (1st Edition) by Mark Derr Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-8130-1629-0 / 0813016290 ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-1629-0 / 9780813016290 "The history of Florida is the story of North America in miniature. By telling it with such eloquence and learning in 'Some Kind of Paradise, ' Mr. Derr has revealed the dark side of the historian Frederick Jackson Turner's famous hypothesis: our national character was indeed shaped by the frontier. |