Pleasure Island
Subtitle: tourism and temptation in Cuba
By: Rosalie Schwartz.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Tourism -- Cuba -- History
Description: Pleasure Island explores the tourism industry in Cuba between 1920 and 1960, as international travel ceased to be primarily a privilege of the wealthy and incorporated the world's growing middle class. Rosalie Schwartz examines tourists' changing ideas of leisure and recreation, as well as the response of a colonial-era Spanish city turned fleshpot and endless cabaret.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-231) and index.