TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skwiot,Christine
TI  - The Purposes of Paradise: U. S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i
SN  - 9780812200034
AV  - G155.C9 -- S56 2010eb 
U1  - 306.20973 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Imperialism-History
KW  - Tourism-Political aspects-Cuba-History-19th century
KW  - Tourism-Political aspects-Cuba-History-20th century
KW  - Tourism-Political aspects-Hawaii-History-19th century
KW  - Tourism-Political aspects-Hawaii-History-20th century
KW  - Cuba-Colonization
KW  - Hawaii-Colonization
KW  - United States-Foreign relations-19th century
KW  - United States-Foreign relations-20th century
KW  - United States-Territorial expansion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. First Fruits of a Tropical Eden -- Chapter 2. Garden Republics or Plantation Regimes? -- Chapter 3. Royal Resorts for Tropical Tramps -- Chapter 4. Revolutions, Reformations, Restorations -- Chapter 5 Travels to Another Revolution and to Statehood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - The Purposes of Paradise shows how travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i between the 1850s, when expansionists imagined them as twin possessions, and revolution and statehood in 1959. It explores the relationships between imperial fantasies and political practices in Americans' favorite tropical isles
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