Negotiating paradise
Subtitle: U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America
By: Dennis Merrill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780807832882; 9780807859049
Subjects: Americans -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Tourists -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Tourism -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Tourism -- Political aspects -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; Tourism -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Relations -- Latin America; Latin America -- Relations -- United States; Latin America -- Civilization -- American influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : mass tourism, empire, and soft power; title: Lone eagles and revolutionaries : the U.S.-Mexican rapprochement of the 1920s; title: Containment and good neighbors : tourism and empire in 1930s Mexico; title: The safe bet : Batista's Cuba; title: Paradise lost : Castro's Cuba; title: Bootstraps, beaches, and cobblestone : commonwealth Puerto Rico; title: A Cold War mirage : Puerto Rico in the 1960s and 1970s.