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Author:

Merrill, Dennis.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvi, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Relations--Latin America.
Latin America--Relations--United States.
Americans--Latin America--History--20th century.
Tourists--Latin America--History--20th century.
Tourism--Latin America--History--20th century.
Tourism--History--Latin America--History--20th century.
Tourism--History--Latin America--History--20th century.
Latin America--American influences.--American influences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0807859044 (pbk : alk. paper)
9780807859049 (pbk : alk. paper)
080783288X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807832882 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)313018317

LCCN:

2009009380

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)