Negotiating Paradise : U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America /

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In his examination of interwar Mexico, early Cold War Cuba, and Puerto Rico during the Alliance for Progress, Merrill demonstrates how tourists and the international travel industry facilitated the expansion of U.S. consumer and cultural power in Latin America. He also shows the many ways in which l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Merrill, Dennis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Koude Oorlog.
Toerisme.
Tourists.
Tourism > Social aspects.
Tourism > Political aspects.
Tourism.
International relations.
Civilization > American influences.
Americans.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Touristes > Amerique latine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Tourism > Social aspects > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Tourism > Political aspects > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Tourism > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Tourists > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Americans > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Midden-Amerika.
United States.
Latin America.
Latin America > Civilization > American influences.
Latin America > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Latin America.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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