The Purposes of Paradise : : U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i /

The Purposes of Paradise : : U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i / / Christine Skwiot.

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For half a century, the United States has treated Cuba and Hawai'i as polar opposites: despised nation and beloved state. But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian statehood of 1959, Cuba and Hawai'i figured as twin objects of U.S. imperial desire and as possessi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Skwiot, Christine,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 17 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. First Fruits of a Tropical Eden
  • Chapter two. Garden Republics or Plantation Regimes?
  • Chapter three. Royal Resorts for Tropical Tramps
  • Chapter four. Revolutions, Reformations, Restorations
  • Chapter five. Travels to Another Revolution and to Statehood
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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