Christine Skwiot: 1 book
The Purposes of Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
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...
