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Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America / Dennis Merrill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merrill, Dennis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Americans.
- Tourists--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Tourists.
- Tourism--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Tourism.
- Tourism--Political aspects--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Tourism--Social aspects--Latin America--History--20th century.
- United States--Relations--Latin America.
- United States.
- Latin America--Relations--United States.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Civilization--American influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America
- Contents:
- Introduction : mass tourism, empire, and soft power
- Lone eagles and revolutionaries : the U.S.-Mexican rapprochement of the 1920's
- Containment and good neighbors : tourism and empire in 1930's 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 1960's and 1970's.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908843-4-3
- 979-88-9313-376-9
- 1-4696-0553-8
- 0-8078-9863-5
- OCLC:
- 646875483
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