Pleasure Island Tourism & Temptation in Cuba

Name: Pleasure Island Tourism & Temptation in Cuba
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ISBN: 9780803292659

ISBN-10: 0803292651

ISBN-13: 9780803292659

Edition: 1999

Authors: Rosalie Schwartz

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Rosalie Schwartz is the author of Lawless Liberators, the winner of the 1990 Hubert Herring Book Prize. With this volume, she offers a scholarly study of tourism in Cuba, mainly between the 1920s and 1960s.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 2/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 247
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.05" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



1998: Hubert Herring Book prize of Thepacific Council on Latin American Studies


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Tourist Drama



Act 1 The Road to Cuba



public Works, politics, property The Action Behind the Scrim



Tempests and Tourists Dreamers and Schemers



Tourism Triumphant



Manufactured Traditions And Cultural Transformations



Culture and Casinos Museums and Monte Carlos Cast Changes and Script Revisions



Lntermission in Cuba and A Sea Change in Tourism



Blue Water, Green Money Act 2, Curtain Up



Shady Business In The Tropical Sun The Mafia and Gambling



Batista Stages a Tourist Boom



The Tourist Stage As Rebel Battleground



No peace, No pleasure No Tourists



Act 3 The phoenix Rises


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index