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

Publication Data

• Title Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America
• Author Dennis Merrill
• Publisher University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Chapel Hill N.C.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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
• United States
• Latin America

Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America by Dennis Merrill. ISBN 9780807859049. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.