Reviews for Jacksonville after the Fire, 1901-1919: A New South City

The average rating for Jacksonville after the Fire, 1901-1919: A New South City based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-05 00:00:00 Evaldas Sinickas In Jacksonville After the Fire, University of North Florida history professor (now retired) James Crooks offers a thoroughly researched and clearly written overview of what the first two decades of the 20th century looked like in the Bold New City of the South. Although Crooks starts out his work with a chapter on the years leading up to the Great Fire and a brief description of just how bad a day May 3 1901 was for the city and closes with Jacksonville during World War I and after, the middle of the book is arranged topically rather than chronologically. Chapters cover the economic growth and development of the city after the fire, how its public policy and the private sector affected urban growth, and what leisure time looked like in a city that at the time was giving Hollywood a run for its money for the title of film capital of the United States. Written in 1991, this book predates the trend toward more narrative histories, and lacks the kind of overarching theme you might see in something like Devil in the White City. Part of that may be due to a seeming lack of personal papers from the city's residents; the author draws almost exclusively from newspaper articles, meeting minutes, and government statistics. Relying on such sources causing Crooks to frequently expound for several paragraphs on data that would be better left to a table, but I'm not going to quibble too much about the same kind of thoroughness that makes him careful to devote attention to the lives of Jacksonville's minority populations as well as the white movers and shakers who generally dominate stories of the city's history. While not precisely a page-turner, Crooks' work still holds some fascination for readers interested in Jacksonville's history and is a solid place to start your research into what the city looked like at the beginning of the last century.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-18 00:00:00 Donna King Me quedé con ganas de más páginas, de conocer los pensamientos que los diversos entornos de México le provocaron a este maravilloso escritor.