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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. 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