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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Jacket has light wear, and wear to edges, binding sound, internally clean. Pensacola's long and turbulent his-tory stretches more than four centuries, a story of the dreams, disappointments, and determinations of pioneers and city builders who were often victimized by geographic isolation from the more Populous peninsula Florida. Yet it retains youthful energy, from sugary sands of Santa Rosa Island preserved as s Gulf Islands National Seashore to spreading urbanization spilling across the Pensacola Bay Area of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Once the colonial capital sister of St Augustine, and now its historical rival in claiming origins of Florida, Pensacola symbolizes the evolution of colonial West Florida. It's flown the flags of Spain, France, and Britain, in the struggle for New World power from the 17th to the 19th century. It was the scene for the Americanization of the Floridan in 1821 and has shared the development of the long peninsula since statehood in 1845. Today, Pensacola reflects a blend h of European, English, and American heritage. It's spawned colonial Florida Pioneers, provincial governors, captains of Gulf Coast warfare, timber barons, railroad builders, and two governors of the State of Florida. Rising out of its claim as Spain's first authorized colonization effort in 1559 Pensacola found its destiny as a colonial and early American military outpost; today it remains a Navy town, the "Cradle of Naval Aviation," continuing its heritage as the center for flight in training beyond its 75th anniversary in 1989. Pensacola rims a bay the early Spaniards called the "best port in the Indies" and on its streets near the bay front some of Florida's earliest history shares the streetscape with the New Pensacola Renaissance of the last quarter of the 20th century. An amalgam of historical houses, landmarks, and heritage parks binds the Old City of the 19th century with the future of the New Pensacola. With this lyrical narrative, illustrated by rare photographs taken from the many Pensacola collections and archives, the people and events of then and now are alive and timeless Pensacola en la th and now are alive and , giving shape to the long past and echoing Florida's First Place City's future for the 21st century.