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The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai’i

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For half a century, america 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 may enhance all manner of fantasy fulfillment—cultural, financial, and geopolitical.

Using commute 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 selection of number one materials that range from government sources and tourist industry records to promotional items and commute narratives, The Purposes of Paradise explores the ways commute and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai’i. More broadly, Skwiot’s comparative approach underscores continuity, in addition to change, in U.S. imperial thought and practice around the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Comparing the relationships of Cuba and Hawai’i with america, Skwiot argues, offers a method to revisit assumptions about formal as opposed to informal empire, territorial as opposed to commercial imperialism, and direct as opposed to indirect rule.

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