Key West on the edge : inventing the Conch Republic / Robert Kerstein ; foreword by Robert Arsenault and Gary R. Mormino.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Florida history and culture series.
Main Author: Kerstein, Robert J.
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012], ©2012.
Series:Florida history and culture series.
Subjects:
Key West (Fla.) > History.
Key West (Fla.) > Social conditions.
Social change > Florida > Key West > History.
Tourism > Florida > Key West > History.
Key West (Fla.) > Economic conditions.
Physical Description:viii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Key West's First Hundred Years : Wrecking, the Military, Cigar Making, and a Few Tourists
  • The Not-so-Roaring Twenties
  • The Depression and War Years : Tourism Dreams Give Way to Military Realities
  • Key West, 1945-1970 : Not a Clean Well-Lighted Place
  • Postwar Tourism
  • Island of Intrigue : Key West in the 1970s
  • Key West in Transition
  • The Gay Community and the Transformation of Key West
  • Key West in the 1980s and 1990s : Bringing in the Tourists
  • The Politics of Tourism and Development
  • Shelter for the Labor Force?
  • Island Tensions in the Twenty-first Century : Mass Tourism and Rising Real Estate Values in a "Unique" Community
  • One Human Family?
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix.