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Florida under five flags [by] Rembert W. Patrick ...

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Patrick, Rembert W. (Rembert Wallace), 1909-1967

Publication details: Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1945.Description: xiv, 140 pages including frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits, maps, facsimiles) 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

975.9
975.9, Pat

Other classification:

7,26

Online resources:

University of Florida Digital Collections, Full view

Action note:

180397 Charm

Summary: As virtually the first scholar to penetrate the history of Florida, Patricks works will remain for many years the foundation for all further efforts. Florida Historical Quarterly.Summary: Hard to beat. ... Professor Patrick has bound up a lot of history into a very tidy and readable package. Saturday Review.Summary: Undertakes something new in presenting in one volume four hundred years of the history of this state. Journal of Negro History.Summary: First published in 1945, this concise history of Florida commemorated the states centennial anniversary and was the very first book issued by what was then called the University of Florida Press. Reissued numerous times, its status as a seminal text in our states history has never been questioned. Even today, copies are difficult to find. As part of the state-wide celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the discovery of La Florida, we are pleased to reissue this facsimile edition of one of the most cherished books ever published by the University Press of Florida.Summary: In this highly readable account, Rembert Patrick, the first of many giants among Florida historians, summarizes Floridas history under the flags of Spain, France, Great Britain, the Confederacy, and the United States. Distilling five centuries of history, Patrick chronicles Floridas evolving identity: from discovery and settlement to its role under the changing fortunes of European powers, from establishment as a territory to an antebellum state, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to an urban, post-World War II economic juggernaut.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	975.9 Pat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000008282
Books	OCLC Data	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	975.9, Pat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000000002192

As virtually the first scholar to penetrate the history of Florida, Patricks works will remain for many years the foundation for all further efforts. Florida Historical Quarterly.

Hard to beat. ... Professor Patrick has bound up a lot of history into a very tidy and readable package. Saturday Review.

Undertakes something new in presenting in one volume four hundred years of the history of this state. Journal of Negro History.

First published in 1945, this concise history of Florida commemorated the states centennial anniversary and was the very first book issued by what was then called the University of Florida Press. Reissued numerous times, its status as a seminal text in our states history has never been questioned. Even today, copies are difficult to find. As part of the state-wide celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the discovery of La Florida, we are pleased to reissue this facsimile edition of one of the most cherished books ever published by the University Press of Florida.

In this highly readable account, Rembert Patrick, the first of many giants among Florida historians, summarizes Floridas history under the flags of Spain, France, Great Britain, the Confederacy, and the United States. Distilling five centuries of history, Patrick chronicles Floridas evolving identity: from discovery and settlement to its role under the changing fortunes of European powers, from establishment as a territory to an antebellum state, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to an urban, post-World War II economic juggernaut.

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