Negotiating paradise : U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America /
Dennis Merrill.
- xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : mass tourism, empire, and soft power -- Lone eagles and revolutionaries : the U.S.-Mexican rapprochement of the 1920s -- Containment and good neighbors : tourism and empire in 1930s Mexico -- The safe bet : Batista's Cuba -- Paradise lost : Castro's Cuba -- Bootstraps, beaches, and cobblestone : commonwealth Puerto Rico -- A Cold War mirage : Puerto Rico in the 1960s and 1970s.