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Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merrill, Dennis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Latin America > Civilization > American influences.
Latin America > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Latin America.
Tourism > Social aspects > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Tourism > Political aspects > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Tourism > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Tourists > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Americans > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : mass tourism, empire, and soft power
  • Lone eagles and revolutionaries : the U.S.-Mexican rapprochement of the 1920s
  • Containment and good neighbors : tourism and empire in 1930s Mexico
  • The safe bet : Batista's Cuba
  • Paradise lost : Castro's Cuba
  • Bootstraps, beaches, and cobblestone : commonwealth Puerto Rico
  • A Cold War mirage : Puerto Rico in the 1960s and 1970s.