The Purposes of Paradise
Author: Christine Skwiot
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0812222288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.