FOSTER, JOHN T. JR. , AND SARAH WHITMER FOSTER

Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers the Transformation of Florida

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0813016460. Cover is brown with rust colored spine; gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; printed on acid -free paper. Brown endpapers. Illustrated with b/w photos. "Modern Florida...began at the end of the Civil War among a group of Yankee rformers including Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and her brother, Charles, who lived in Florida between 1857 and 1885. Written with the action , atmosphere and insight of a good novel, this book tells the story of the group and of their designs for a postwar Florida". ; Remainder; B&W Photographs; 6 x 9 1/2; 158 pages; Cover has very slight edge wear; remainder mark on bottom of pages. DJ has light edge wear and rubbing.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Keywords: 0813016460 Biography; Florida; American History; State History; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Charles Stowe; Reformers; Civil War; Social History; Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education American History Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals African Amer