04505nam 2200817Ia 450 991078836730332120211012030925.00-8122-2228-81-283-89043-70-8122-0003-910.9783/9780812200034(CKB)3170000000047035(OCoLC)794925531(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576075(SSID)ssj0000606054(PQKBManifestationID)11413284(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606054(PQKBWorkID)10580477(PQKB)10284859(MdBmJHUP)muse8355(DE-B1597)449203(OCoLC)1013946096(OCoLC)979910365(DE-B1597)9780812200034(Au-PeEL)EBL3441635(CaPaEBR)ebr10576075(CaONFJC)MIL420293(MiAaPQ)EBC3441635(EXLCZ)99317000000004703520100215d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe purposes of paradise[electronic resource] U.S. tourism and empire in Cuba and Hawaiʻi /Christine SkwiotPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20101 online resource (292 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4244-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter one. First Fruits of a Tropical Eden --Chapter two. Garden Republics or Plantation Regimes? --Chapter three. Royal Resorts for Tropical Tramps --Chapter four. Revolutions, Reformations, Restorations --Chapter five. Travels to Another Revolution and to Statehood --Conclusion --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsFor half a century, the United States has treated Cuba and Hawai'i as polar opposites: despised nation and beloved state. But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian statehood of 1959, Cuba and Hawai'i figured as twin objects of U.S. imperial desire and as possessions whose tropical island locales might support all manner of fantasy fulfillment-cultural, financial, and geopolitical. Using travel and tourism as sites where the pleasures of imperialism met the politics of empire, Christine Skwiot untangles the histories of Cuba and Hawai'i as integral parts of the Union and keys to U.S. global power, as occupied territories with violent pasts, and as fantasy islands ripe with seduction and reward. Grounded in a wide array of primary materials that range from government sources and tourist industry records to promotional items and travel narratives, The Purposes of Paradise explores the ways travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i. More broadly, Skwiot's comparative approach underscores continuity, as well as change, in U.S. imperial thought and practice across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Comparing the relationships of Cuba and Hawai'i with the United States, Skwiot argues, offers a way to revisit assumptions about formal versus informal empire, territorial versus commercial imperialism, and direct versus indirect rule.ImperialismHistoryTourismPolitical aspectsCubaHistory19th centuryTourismPolitical aspectsCubaHistory20th centuryTourismPolitical aspectsHawaiiHistory19th centuryTourismPolitical aspectsHawaiiHistory20th centuryCubaColonizationHawaiiColonizationUnited StatesForeign relations19th centuryUnited StatesForeign relations20th centuryUnited StatesTerritorial expansionAmerican History.American Studies.Business.Economics.ImperialismHistory.TourismPolitical aspectsHistoryTourismPolitical aspectsHistoryTourismPolitical aspectsHistoryTourismPolitical aspectsHistory306.20973Skwiot Christine1580809MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788367303321The purposes of paradise3861999UNINA