The Purposes of Paradise

The Purposes of Paradise

Author: Christine Skwiot

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0812222288

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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.