LEADER 04505nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910788367303321 005 20211012030925.0 010 $a0-8122-2228-8 010 $a1-283-89043-7 010 $a0-8122-0003-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200034 035 $a(CKB)3170000000047035 035 $a(OCoLC)794925531 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576075 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580477 035 $a(PQKB)10284859 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8355 035 $a(DE-B1597)449203 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946096 035 $a(OCoLC)979910365 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200034 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441635 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576075 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420293 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441635 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000047035 100 $a20100215d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe purposes of paradise$b[electronic resource] $eU.S. tourism and empire in Cuba and Hawai?i /$fChristine Skwiot 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (292 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4244-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter one. First Fruits of a Tropical Eden --$tChapter two. Garden Republics or Plantation Regimes? --$tChapter three. Royal Resorts for Tropical Tramps --$tChapter four. Revolutions, Reformations, Restorations --$tChapter five. Travels to Another Revolution and to Statehood --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFor 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. 606 $aImperialism$xHistory 606 $aTourism$xPolitical aspects$zCuba$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTourism$xPolitical aspects$zCuba$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTourism$xPolitical aspects$zHawaii$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTourism$xPolitical aspects$zHawaii$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aCuba$xColonization 607 $aHawaii$xColonization 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aBusiness. 610 $aEconomics. 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory. 615 0$aTourism$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aTourism$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aTourism$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aTourism$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a306.20973 700 $aSkwiot$b Christine$01580809 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788367303321 996 $aThe purposes of paradise$93861999 997 $aUNINA