Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ponce's Ghosts: Spain and Florida, 1513-2013 -- Ponce de León -- Naming Rights and Rites -- Fountains of Youth -- Columbian Exchange -- Globalization -- Black Legends and Legacies -- Freedom and Slavery -- Cradle of Institutions -- The New American Table -- Strategies and Distances, Disasters and Dependencies -- Literature and Culture -- From Ball to Bolita -- The Fourteenth Colony and the American Revolution -- Imperial Misfortune -- The Eagle Screams -- New Spanish Accents in Key West and Tampa -- Cuban Wars of Independence -- Neo-Spanish Revival: Gilded Age St. Augustine -- Florida Discovers Spain: The 1920s -- Fears and Hopes: The 1930s -- St. Augustine Reinvented, Again -- Revolutions in Our Midst -- La Florida in the New Millennium -- Notes -- Part I: La Florida: First and Second Spanish Periods -- Introduction: Three Hundred Years of La Florida -- 1. Charting Juan Ponce de León's 1513 Voyage to Florida: The Calusa Indians amid Latitudes of Controversy -- Ponce and Early Sixteenth-Century Florida in Documents -- Interpreting Herrera and Freducci: Landfall, the Atlantic Coast, and the Straits of Florida -- Among the Calusa Indians -- Aftermath -- The Calusa Indians after Ponce -- Notes -- 2. "Until the Land Was Understood": Spaniards Confront La Florida, 1500-1600 -- Notes -- 3. On the Trail of Texts from Early Spanish Florida: Garcilaso's La Florida del Inca and Oré's Relación de los mártires -- Meeting of the Inca Garcilaso and Oré in Córdoba (1612) -- Notes -- 4. A Land Renowned for War: Florida as a Maritime Marchland -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- 5. "Giving Liberty to All": Spanish Florida as a Black Sanctuary, 1673-1790 -- Notes.

6. The Experience of a Loss: Spain, Florida, and the United States (1783-1833) -- "By Force of Arms" -- Federation and Empires (1792-1808) -- The Loss of the Floridas (1808-1819) -- A Time of Silence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Postcolonial and Contemporary Florida -- Introduction: Florida in the Modern World -- 7. Fireworks over Fernandina: The Atlantic Dimension of the Amelia Island Episode, 1817 -- Notes -- 8. The Old World in the New: Florida Discovers the Arts of Spain, 1885-1930 -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 9. Performing Diasporas, or Cubanidad Meets Jim Crow: Miami in a Period of Demographic Transition before the Cuban Revolution -- Cubanidad at the Crossroad of the Caribbean -- Entertainment: The Cuban Musical Connection and Jim Crow -- A Word on Desi Arnaz and Afro-Cuban Rhythms -- The Hispanic Presence in Overtown -- Cuba-Miami in the early 1960s -- Notes -- 10. Mickey Ricans? The Recent Puerto Rican Diaspora to Florida -- Changing Settlement Patterns -- Socioeconomic Profile -- Racial Identities -- Political Incorporation -- Cultural Practices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Miami in the Twenty-First Century: Still on the Edge? -- Racial, Ethnic, and Class Structures -- The Economic Base -- Reconquista Urbana: The Convergence of Ethnicity with Economics -- Emerging Class Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12. How Cubans Transformed Florida Politics and Gained National Influence -- Cuban Migration: The Magnetism of Miami -- Voting and the Making of the Cuban American Political Class -- Leveraging Local Power for National Political Influence -- The Presidential Election Cycle and Exile Policy Influence: 1992-2004 -- Breakdown of the Cuban American Policy Cycle -- In Sum -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Commemorating Juan Ponce de León's landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida, this ambitious volume explores five centuries of Hispanic presence in the New World peninsula, reflecting on the breadth and depth of encounters between the different lands and cultures. The contributors, leading experts in a range of fields, begin with an examination of the first and second Spanish periods. This was a time when La Florida was an elusive possession that the Spaniards were never able to completely secure; but Spanish influence would nonetheless leave an indelible mark on the land. In the second half of this volume, the essays highlight the Hispanic cultural legacy, politics, and history of modern Florida, and expand on Florida's role as a modern Trans-Atlantic cross roads. Melding history, literature, anthropology, music, culture, and sociology, La Florida is a unique presentation of the Hispanic roots that run deep in Florida's past and present and will assuredly shape its future.

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