Travel, Tourism and Urban Growth in Miami

Migration and Immigration Bibliography
	Cuban Architects: Their Impact on the Urban Landscape of Miami Miami, FL: Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture, 1985. This book looks at different architectual exhibitions held in Miami and highlights the contributions of Cuban American architects on the local landscape.
	Florida Photographic Collection Tallahassee: State Archives of Florida, Florida Department of State, State Library and Archives of Florida, 199x. The Florida Photographic Collection, a component of the State Archives of Florida, contains thousands photographs, postcards and other images recording life and development in Miami from the late nineteenth century to present. Of note are the photographs of W.A. Fishbaugh, G.W. Romer, and the Miami images in the Postcard Collection, the Wendler Collection, and the MOSAIC collection of Jewish life in Florida.
	From Wilderness to Metropolis: The History and Architecture of Dade County, Florida, 1825-1940 2nd ed. Miami, FL: Metropolitan Dade County, Office of Community Development, Historic Preservation Division, 1992. This book focuses on the history of Dade County - from patterns of early settlement to the later periods of rapid urban development. It also provides information regarding the history and architecture of Dade County's most significant buildings.
	Miami: Virtual Reality Quicktime Movies Tampa: University of South Florida, School of Education, Florida Center for Instructional Technology, 2004. Color movies of the Miami skyline, Vizcaya, the South Beach Art Deco district, and panoramic scenes from the 1920s, 1930s and 1950. Most of the color movies are a full circle (360 degrees). The black and white VRs are approximately 180 degree views. Part of the 'Exploring Florida: A Social Studies Resource for Students and Teachers' site.
	Stonewall Library and Archives Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The collection holds 5,000 volumes and two warehouses of material related to history of gays and lesbians in South Florida. Contact: John Graves (954-522-2317). By appointment only.
	Akin, Edward N. Flagler, Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1988. The book opens with a look at the young Henry Flagler. It focuses on his business partnership with Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company, underlining the combined impact of the oil industry and railroad expansion to the development of Miami and the Keys.
	Allman, T.D. Miami: City of the Future. 1st ed ed. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Charts the overall growth of the city up to 1987. Allman traces the emergence of this "boom city" from Henry Flagler and the 1920's real estate market to the violent, crime laden image of the 1980's. In addition, he delves into the assimilatory tendencies of the Cuban-American community. Allman portrays Miami as a harbinger for growing national issues.
	Ashley, Kathryne B. George E. Merrick and Coral Gables, Florida Coral Gables, FL: Crystal Bay Press, 1985. This book provides a biography of George E. Merrick. It focuses on his various contributions to the development of Coral Gables, Florida.
	Bramson, Seth H. Speedway to Sunshine Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills Press, 1984. This book is a complete history of the Florida East Coast Railway, detailing the company's trials and tribulations through periods of boom, bust, and natural calamities. The book also includes information pertaining to all things dealing with the railway's operations, schedules, and mechanical equipment.
	Bramson, Seth H. Speedway to Sunshine: The Story of the Florida East Coast Railway Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 2003. This book is an updated version of the 1984 Speedway to Sunshine. It is a complete history of the Florida East Coast Railway, detailing the company's trials and tribulations through periods of boom, bust, and natural calamities. The book also includes information pertaining to all things dealing with the railway's operations, schedules, and mechanical equipment. Bramson has added four chapters that deal with the Florida East Coast Railway since 1984.
	Burns, Allan F. Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. This focuses on the immigration of Guatemalans to the United States and particularly Florida. Providing backround information on the political and social problems driving immigration to the U.S., the work considers the importance of Guatemalans in the agricultural sector, their subsequent cultural assimilation in America, and the conscious effort to preserve their Mayan ancestral heritage.
	Carlebach, Michael and Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993. The authors examine the work of the FSA in Florida through ninety-four images made by photographers John Collier, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, and Arthur Rothstein. These pictures portray life as it was for a substancial number of people living in Florida during the 1930s. Though images of migrant workers predominante, it also includes images depicting daily middle-class life.
	Carter, Luther The Florida Experience: Land and Water Policy in a Growth State Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Carter opens this book by explaining that everyone needs to have "a sense of place." He then documents how Floridian people have settled and worked their land to develop a sense of place and identify with its resources and most attractive aspects. Six case studies are included. A number of them deal with the Everglades area.
	Colburn, David R. and Janee L. Landers, eds. The African American Heritage of Florida. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1995. Series of twelve essays examining the relationship between African-Americans and the entire historical record of development in Florida. Includes work on "The Pattern of Race Relations in Miami since the 1920s" from historian Raymond Mohl.
	Croucher, Sheila L. Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1947. The author uses Miami as a window to analyze how the social, political, and economic construction of ethnic identities comes to shape inter-ethnic-group conflicts. The sources include interviews with community leaders, politicians, journalists, and business people, as well as periodical and political publications on Miami.
	Didion, Joan Miami. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Didion describes the transformation of Miami from the 1950's to present day due to the effects of massive Latino American immigration, the international drug trade, racial violence, and continuing tension amongst Cuban exiles concerning their former homeland. All these factors and more, according to Didion, turned Miami from a sunny vacation haven into the dangerous new capital of the western hemisphere's Third World.
	Douglas, Marjory Stoneman Florida: The Long Frontier New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1967. This book is a general history of the state of Florida. Douglas examines a plethora of topics - from the exploration of Florida by the Spanish and the Seminole Wars to Florida's role in the Civil War and the impact of Reconstruction. For her, Florida's status as a relatively unsettled frontier zone was only brought to an end with the completion of Henry Flagler's railroad to Key West in the early twentieth century.
	Dunn, Marvin Black Miami in the Twentieth Century Florida History and Culture Series. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997. Beginning his narrative with the black pirates of Biscayne Bay, Dunn analyzes the involvement of the African-American community in over one hundred years of Miami history. From the cultural renaissance of old Overtown to the Lozano and McDuffie incidents, this work delves into the intricacies of African-American life during and after World World II, Segregation,the fight for Civil Rights, increasing racial tension and violence in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and up to present day.
	Firmat, Gustavo Perez Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1994. Using the mambo as both a metaphor and structural device for his discussion of the burgeoning Cuban-American culture, Firmat examines the life that the first gerneration of exiles have created since leaving Cuba after Castro's rise to power. More importantly, however, he writes extensively on different facets of the Cuban arts, from the stage to music and literature. According to Firmat, these separate genres helped to create both a culture that exists within a glorified memory of the Cuban homeland and the opportunity of life in the United States.
	Firmat, Gustavo Perez Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming of Age in America. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 1995. This is an account of the author's journey from Cuba as a young, eleven year-old boy to his life as a completely assimilated American and professor at Duke University. Firmat explores his feelings of longing for a greater attachment to his Cuban self as he strives to make his way in the U.S. The author exemplifies the dichotomy of life as an exile; tortured feelings of displacement freely intermingle with the struggle to create a new identity in a strangely different country. Firmat touches on all these subjects and shows the hardship of life without a true land to call home.
	Fitzgerarld-Bush, Frank S. A Dream of Araby: Glenn H. Curtiss and the Founding of Opa-locka 1st ed ed. Opa-Locka, Fl: South Florida Archaeological Museum, 1976. Fitzgerald-Bush chronicles the foundation of the Florida boom town Opa-Locka, a suburb of Miami. Created in 1925 by famed inventor Glenn H. Curtiss, the city was a combination of mystique and Arabic architectual influence. The work allows a glimpse into what made and shaped this unique area.
	Florida International University Libraries Miami Metropolitan Archive Miami, FL: State University System of Florida , Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials, 2003. The Miami Metropolitan Archiveis an ongoing cooperative effort of the Urban, Regional & Local Government Documents Department at Florida International University Libraries and the City of Miami City Clerk's Office to provide digital access to the full text of important source materials on Miami-Dade County urban development. Currently, early City of Miami City Council meeting minutes, charters, departmental annual reports, and planning documents from 1896 to 1966 are archived here.

	Garcia, Maria C. Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. Garcia examines the Cuban presence in South Florida over a thirty-five year span, paying particular attention to Miami. She examines what groups came to South Florida from Cuba and what their motivations were for leaving this island. Her book also provides information on the formation of Cuban identity in the United States and on the role of Cubans in U.S. politics.
	George, Paul S. "Colored Town: Miami's Black Community, 1896-1930" Florida Historical Quarterly 55(April 1978): 432-447.
	Gonzalez-Pando, Miguel Greater Miami: Spirit of Cuban Enterprise. 1st ed ed. Ft. Lauderdale: Copperfield Publications, 1996. Gonzalez-Pando discusses Cuban-American entrepreneurialism and the development of commerce and wealth in this section of society throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, these exiled Cubans came to understand that a swift return to a Castro free Cuba was not in the immediate future and made the conscious choice to put down economic roots in the greater Miami area. Gonzalez-Pando looks at the history of this social movement and poses questions about its future.
	Goodwin, Gary and Suzanne Walker Florida's Black Heritage Trail Tallahassee, FL: Department of State, 1994.
	Grenier, Guillermo J. and Alex Stepick, eds. Miami Now!: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Social Change. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1992. The authors describe and analyze the major social, economic, and political issues confronting the City of Miami today. They examine the differing ethnic communities, political struggles (between linguistic and racial groups), economic disparities, and the multiplicity of issues and problems aroused by tensions stemming from civil rights and immigration. The book's various authors aim to provide a greater understanding of what has contributed to both Miami's place as the capital of the Caribbean and as a harbinger of what could be in store for other increasingly diverse cities in the United States.
	Kleinberg, Howard Miami Beach: A History Miami, FL: Centennial Press, 1994. Kleinberg's work provides a detailed history of Miami Beach. It includes information on early Miami Beach immigration and settlement, changing land-use patterns, the development of tourist sites, and urban life.
	Liebman, Malvina W. and Seymour B. Liebman Jewish Frontiersmen: Historical Highlights of Early South Florida Jewish Communities Miami Beach, Fl: Jewish Historical Society of South Florida, 1980. Liebman looks at Jewish involvement in the growth of South Florida. A significant portion of the area's Jewish demographic played developmental roles in the life of certain Floridian cities, notably Miami. Expanding outside of their tight knit religious communties, they eventually garnered power and influence local and state affairs.
	McCarthy, Kevin The Hippocrene U.S.A. Guide to Black Florida New York, NY: Hippocrene Books, 1995.
	Millas, Aristides J., and Ellen J. Uguccioni Coral Gables, Miami Riviera: An Architectural Guide Miami, FL: Dade Heritage Trust, 2003. This book provides readers with a historical background of Coral Gables as well as a guide for exploring the architecture of today's Coral Gables. The book examines the nineteenth and twentieth century architectural forms that influenced the city's developers. It explains the developers' intention to create a "Master Suburb," and ends by providing six self-guided tours for viewing the city.
	Miller, Randall and George E. Pozetta eds. Shades of the Sunbelt: Essays on Ethnicity, Race,and the Urban South. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1988. A collection of scholarly essays on the development of southern cities in the post-WW II era, this book includes material focused on the influence of Cuban immigrants on Miami's political scene, northern migration to Florida, and the general growth of the state from 1880-1980. The work suggests a pattern of development amongst southern cities and provides comparative models of the nation's other regions to support its thesis.
	Mohl, Raymond A. South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960 Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. Mohl examines the role played by Jewish activists in Miami's civil rights movement. He pays particular attention to two Jewish women who were not from Miami, but moved there later in life to promote civil rights for African Americans. Matilda "Bobbi" Graff and Shirley M. Zoloth worked with grassroots organizations to desegregate Miami. Mohl makes it clear, however, that Miami's growing status as both a global tourist hub and a multicultural city created unique circumstances for civil rights pioneers.
	Mohl, Raymond A. "Whitening Miami: Race, Housing, and Government Policy in Twentieth-Century Dade County" Florida Historical Quarterly 79(Winter 2001): 319-345.
	Mohl, Raymond A., ed. Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region. 1st ed ed. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. Twelve Sun-belt related essays present historical information and interpretation focused on regional perceptions, economic change, federal policy, southern and western metropolitan politics, race relations, immigration patterns, and cultural evolution in these developing areas.
	Moore, Deborah Dash To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A. New York, NY: Free Press, 1994. This is an analysis of the American Jewish community's changing nature as it moved from the Northeast and Midwest to Miami and Los Angeles. As Jews broke away from their traditional ethnic communities in New York and Chicago, the authors show that these migrants put a distinctive stamp on what encompassed the meaning of being Jewish in America. Drawn to the climate and casual lifestyle of Miami and L.A., the new communities were able to redefine "ethnic Jewishness" while also promoting quick assimilation into greater American culture.
	Mormino, Gary R. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. Mormino's book is a social history of Florida since World War II. It deals with how the history of Florida and its people have been shaped by a number of factors. Included are looks at the impact of "land booms," tourism, and technology on the development of the state. There is also a chapter on the people of Florida's relationship with the environment.
	Muir, Helen Miami, U.S.A. 2nd ed. Miami, FL: The Pickering Press, 1990. This is the second edition of Muir's book on the history and development of life in Miami. She focuses on topics varying from political debates to popular culture.
	Muir, Helen Miami, U.S.A. Illustrated with Photos 1st ed ed. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1953. This is a colorful history of Miami streching back from the founding of Lemon City and Fort Dallas all the way to 1953. The book contains an interesting chapter about the role of well known mafiosos - including Al Capone - in Miami Beach during the 1940s and early 1950s.
	Munroe, Ralph Middleton and Vincent Gilpin The Commodore's Story: The Early Days on Biscayne Bay 2nd ed. Miami, FL: Historical Association of South Florida, 1985.
	Olson, James F. and Judith E. Olson The Cuban Americans: From Trauma to Triumph. New York, NY: Twayne Publishers, 1995. Details the historical backround behind both Cuban and Cuban-American ccultures; Traces the history of involvement between the island nation and the United States; Documents the development of the present day Cuban American community and what lies ahead for its future.
	Peters, Thelma Biscayne Country: 1870-1926 Miami, FL: Banyan Books, 1981.
	Peters, Thelma Lemon City: Pioneering on Biscayne Bay, 1850-1925 Miami, FL: Banyan Books, 1976. Peters examines the history of Lemon City, one of the earliest communities in what would become Miami Dade County. She identifies the key figures in the settlement of Lemon City and shows how they shaped its early years of development. She illustrates what first drew people to the area, and also why they continued to migrate to this early community on Biscayne Bay.
	Pierce, Charles William Pioneer Life in Southeast Florida Edited by Donald W. Curl. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1970. This book examines pioneer life in southeast Florida, however, it largely focuses around the life of one man - Charles Pierce - and his family. While his family moved to the Lake Worth area in 1871, Pierce's story focuses on the transformation that took place along the southeastern coast in general. He looks at what initially drew immigrants to the area, their first experiences' once they arrived, and how business and technology shaped this development.
	Portes, Alejandro and Alex Stepick City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. Portes and Stepick examine the shifting demographics of Miami since the first wave of Cuban immigrants arrived in the 1960s, through the later influxes of other groups. Because of the massive influence certain ethnic groups have been able to exert on their new environments, notably the Cuban community, Portes and Stepick contend that Miami's nature as a city has changed, largely pushing towards tolerance and inclusion. The work includes chapters devoted to the events of 1980 (Mariel boatlift, Haitian immigration, McDuffie riots), an examination of the historical connection between Havana and Miami, how this connection led to the Cuban immigrant's preference for Miami, and finally the impact of new immigrants from other parts of Latin America, notably Nicaragua.
	Rieff, David Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America. Boston, MA: Little Brown and Co., 1987. Through interviews and personal accounts, Rieff manages to accurately paint the everchanging face and feel of the ethnic multitudes that exist in the "Gateway to Latin America."
	Rieff, David The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Rieff reflects back on the Cuban exile experience in Miami comparing their plight with other notable exiled ethnic groups. Having left Cuba with the idea of one day returning, the Cuban exile community has persisted in largely retaining much of their culture while assimilating into mainstream America. Rieff discovers, through interviews and research on first and second generation Cuban-Americans living in Miami, that as a result of a longing for the Havana of old (pre-Castro), a significant mythology of grandeur and luxury pervades memories of the homeland. Throughout the work, he discovers that what Cuba "was" and its present day reality can no longer be equated. Rieff also examines how the widespread American views of Cuba have been shaped almost completely by the influence of exile sources.
	Rinhart, Floyd and Marion Rinhart Victorian Florida: America's Last Frontier Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 1986. This book is a pictorial history of Florida. The authors' work begins in the north of Florida, but deals with places such as Tampa and Key West as well. It illustrates the ways in which Florida's first tourists saw the frontier gradually being pushed further south.
	Sanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum Collections and Research Center Miami Beach, FL. The Collection contains materials on Florida Jewish history from 1763 to the present; numerous material related to immigration and ethnicity of Jews in Florida, including artifacts, oral histories, immigration papers, letters, clippings, and extensive photo collection from The Jewish Floridian. The Mosaic Collection, 650 digitized black-and-white images selected from the Museum's collection is is available through the Florida Memory Project: Florida Photographic Collection. Contact: Ira Newman (305-672-5044). By appointment only.
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