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1 online resource |
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Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations |
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Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
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| Contents |
Part One The Hay-Quesada Era -- 1. Promoting a new frontier -- 2. Going south -- 3. Squeezing a profit -- 4. Creating community -- 5. The sword of Damocles -- Part Two Becoming Good Neighbors -- 6. A time of struggle -- 7. "A happy society" -- 8. Revolution and the last exodus |
| Summary |
America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba (1902-58). This transnational study challenges the notion that US territorial ambitions waned after the nineteenth century. Many Americans, anxious about a 'closed' frontier in an industrialized, urbanized United States, migrated to the Isle and pushed for agrarian-oriented landed expansion well into the twentieth century. Their efforts were stymied by Cuban resistance and reluctant US policymakers. After decades of tension, however, a new generation of Americans collaborated with locals in commercial and institutional endeavors. Although they did not wield the same influence, Americans nevertheless maintained a significant footprint. The story of this cooperation upsets prevailing conceptions of US domination and perpetual conflict, revealing that US-Cuban relations at the grassroots were not nearly as adversarial as on the diplomatic level at the dawn of the Cuban Revolution |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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International relations
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Isla de la Juventud (Cuba) -- History
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United States -- Relations -- Cuba
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Cuba -- Relations -- United States
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Cuba
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Cuba -- Isla de la Juventud
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316480168 |
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131648016X |
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