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• From Saloons to Steak Houses

  a History of Tampa

  Huse, Andrew T.,

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  Since its early days as a boomtown on the Florida frontier, Tampa has had a lively history rich with commerce, cuisine, and working-class communities. In From Saloons to Steak Houses, Andrew Huse takes readers on a journey into historic bars,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Stranger in the Barrio

  Memoir of a Tampa Sicilian

  Urso, Frank

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  A raw and unvarnished memoir set in the cigar-making barrio of Tampa's Ybor City when it was the cigar capital of the world. The diaspora of immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century brought Spaniards, Cubans and Sicilians to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tampa Before the Civil War

  Brown, Canter

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  A Floridian historian traces the founding of Tampa back to 1824 as Fort Brooke, and draws on previously unpublished material on its history up to antebellum days including the Seminole Wars, hurricanes, and dreams of being a railroad town.

• Ybor City

  Crucible of the Latina South

  McNamara, Sarah, 1987-

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  When we think about the origins of Cuban immigration to the United States, we often imagine the anti-Communist exiles who fled the regime of Fidel Castro and settled in South Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. But before Miami became Havana USA, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ybor City Chronicles

  a Memoir

  Pacheco, Ferdie

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  Though Pacheco describes years spanning the Great Depression and World War II, his days then were blissfully contained by his Spanish/Cuban/Italian enclave. After school he visited his abuelita, the grandmother who fixed him cups of thick hot…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Immigrant World of Ybor City

  Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985

  Mormino, Gary Ross, 1947-

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  The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tampa

  the Early Years

  Kaiser, Robert J.

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  Thanks to the city's natural deep-water port and proximity to the Panama Canal, Tampa attracted residents from all over the world. In the 20th century, the founding blocks of the city we know today were set by visionary pioneers who came together…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tampa Bay in History

  a Guide

  Carlisle, Rodney P,

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  This guide to sites in the Tampa Bay Region, presents the sites in historical/chronological order: from pre-Columbian Native American cultures, through Spanish exploration, American settlement, Seminole Wars, the Civil War, growth with railroads,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cuban Bread Crumbs

  Espinosa, Jack, 1931-

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  A memoir of growing up in Ybor City, Florida as the son of Spanish immigrant parents. In the period before and after World War II, the Spanish, Cuban and Italian immigrants of Ybor City provided the labor for the cigar industry that dominated the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oldest Tampa Bay

  Ginsberg, Joshua,

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  Human history in the Tampa Bay area goes back thousands of years, long before the first European visitors landed in “La Florida,” before Florida became the 27th US state, before Henry Plant and others brought railroads and hotels to the area, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation