Title The purposes of paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in Cuba and Hawaiʻi / Christine Skwiot

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations Series EBL-Schweitzer Contents First fruits of a tropical Eden -- Garden republics or plantation regimes? -- Royal resorts for tropical tramps -- Revolutions, reformations, restorations -- Travels to another revolution and to statehood Summary "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 islands ripe with seduction and reward. Grounded in a wide array of primary materials that range from government sources and tourist industry records to promotional items and travel narratives, The Purposes of Paradise explores the ways travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i. More broadly, Skwiot's comparative approach underscores continuity, as well as change, in U.S. imperial thought and practice across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Comparing the relationships of Cuba and Hawai'i with the United States. Skwiot argues, offers a way to revisit assumptions about formal versus informal empire, territorial versus commercial imperialism, and direct versus indirect rule. --Book Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Imperialism -- History Tourism -- Political aspects -- Hawaii -- History -- 20th century Tourism -- Political aspects -- Hawaii -- History -- 19th century Tourism -- Political aspects -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century Tourism -- Political aspects -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Colonization Imperialism Diplomatic relations Territorial expansion Tourism -- Political aspects Tourismus Imperialismus SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089 United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008003015 United States -- Territorial expansion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140559 Hawaii -- Colonization Cuba -- Colonization Subject Cuba Hawaii United States Hawaii Kuba USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812200034 0812200039

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