Negotiating Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Twentieth-Century Latin America

by Dennis Merrill

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Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates that empire is a more textured, variable, and interactive system of inequality and resistance than commonly assumed.

In his examination of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807859044

ISBN13:9780807859049

Release Date:August 2009

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Colonialism & Post-Colonialism History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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