• Miami : mistress of the Americas
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: mistress of the Americas
    Author: NijmanJan,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Philadelphia
    Published: University of Pennsylvania Press;
    Year of Publication: c2011
    Description: 1 online resource (ix, 272 p.)ill., maps. :
    Series: Metropolitan portraits
    Subject: Urbanization - History - Florida -
    Subject: Miami (Fla.) - History -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812207026/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9780812207026electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780812242980hbk.
    ISBN: 081224298Xhbk.
    Content Note: Early liaisons -- Shades of a city -- Extreme makeover -- The Miami growth machine -- The birth of a world city -- Transience and civil society -- Locals, exiles, and mobiles -- Elusive subtropical urbanism -- The first hemispheric city -- Appendix 1. The transience index -- Appendix 2. Mapping locals, exiles, and mobiles by census tract
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