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

Title
  1. Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America / Dennis Merrill.
Published by
  1. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Author
  1. Merrill, Dennis.

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Description
  1. xvi, 327 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. United States > Relations > Latin America
  2. Tourists > Latin America > History > 20th century
  3. Tourism > Social aspects > Latin America > History > 20th century
  4. Tourism > Political aspects > Latin America > History > 20th century
  5. Tourism > Latin America > History > 20th century
  6. Americans > Latin America > History > 20th century
  7. Latin America > Relations > United States
  8. Latin America > Civilization > American influences
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. ICM (Latin America) 09-8872
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Merrill, Dennis.
Title
  1. Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America / Dennis Merrill.
Imprint
  1. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2009009380
ISBN
  1. 9780807832882 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 080783288X (cloth : alk. paper)
  3. 9780807859049 (pbk : alk. paper)
  4. 0807859044 (pbk : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. ICM (Latin America) 09-8872
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