America's forgotten colony : Cuba's Isle of Pines /

America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba (1902-58). This transnational study challenges the notion that US territorial ambitions waned after the nineteenth cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neagle, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2016]
Series:Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One The Hay-Quesada Era
  • 1. Promoting a new frontier
  • 2. Going south
  • 3. Squeezing a profit
  • 4. Creating community
  • 5. The sword of Damocles
  • Part Two Becoming Good Neighbors
  • 6. A time of struggle
  • 7. "A happy society"
  • 8. Revolution and the last exodus.