Florida's Snowbirds
Spectacle, Mobility, and Community since 1945
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Category
- North America
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773538542
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $37.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773538535
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773586628
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Developing numerous themes, including leisure, state-promoted tourism, citizenship, and business investment, Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon considers advertisements, movies, policymakers, and the behaviour of snowbirds in Florida to provide the most thorough study of the vacation state to date. He also looks at the temporary communities of Canadians, Québecois, New Englanders, and Mid- Westerners that develop, showing how they blur the lines that usually divide national and regional identities, and youth and age.
An insightful work full of amusing details, Florida's Snowbirds pieces together a complete cultural atlas of Florida Snowbirds that goes far beyond the familiar postcards they send home
About the author
Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon holds a PhD in American history from the University of Ottawa.