America's forgotten colony : Cuba's Isle of Pines
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America's forgotten colony : Cuba's Isle of Pines
（Cambridge studies in US foreign relations / edited by Paul Thomas Chamberlin, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen）
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 285-297
Includes index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. 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 II. Becoming Good Neighbors: 6. A time of struggle
- 7. 'A happy society'
- 8. Revolution and the last exodus
- Conclusion.
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