TY - BOOK AU - Merrill,Dennis TI - Negotiating paradise: U.S. tourism and empire in twentieth-century Latin America SN - 080783288X AV - F1418 .M453 2009 U1 - 303.48280730904 22 PY - 2009///] CY - Chapel Hill [N.C.] PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Americans KW - Latin America KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Tourists KW - Tourism KW - Political aspects KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - Relations KW - Civilization KW - American influences N1 - 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 ER -