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The Purposes Of Paradise Is A Thoughtful And Well-written Comparative Analysis Of The Cultural Politics Of U.s. Involvement In Cuba And Hawai'i In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries. Skwiot Does A Masterful Job Of Weaving Together The Distinct Colonial Histories Of Cuba And Hawai'i, Revealing The Places Where Their Imperial Narratives Intersect And Diverge To Shed Light On The Contradictions Of Colonization, Republican Empire, State Building, And Revolution.--marguerite Shaffer, Miami University. For 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 Isla

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Author

Skwiot, Christine

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812242447

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Anthropology