Tourism & the Caribbean: Travel Books and Guidebooks

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This book is part of The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. Some of the children's books written in the early 20th century have a strong tourist element to them.

1990-2009

1965/1966
1967/1968

Monthly magazine dedicated to the closer union and better understanding of the world-wide interests of W. R. Grace & Co.
1934-1972

The United Fruit Co. published promotional materials, about its beneficial activities in the Caribbean, and about tourism in the region on its ships.

1956/1957-1957/1958
1959/1960-1962/1963
1965/1966-1966/1967
1983/1984

This book brings an ethnographic and theoretical awareness to the field of tourism studies in the extraordinary development context of Cuba. In so doing, it provides valuable insights and lessons for extending the field of scholarly tourism research.

For half a century, the United States 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 might support all manner of fantasy fulfillment—cultural, financial, and geopolitical. Using travel 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 array of primary materials that range from government sources and tourist industry records to promotional items and travel narratives,The Purposes of Paradiseexplores the ways travel and tourism shaped U.S. imperialism in Cuba and Hawai'i. More broadly, Skwiot's comparative approach underscores continuity, as well as change, in U.S. imperial thought and practice across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Comparing the relationships of Cuba and Hawai'i with the United States, Skwiot argues, offers a way to revisit assumptions about formal versus informal empire, territorial versus commercial imperialism, and direct versus indirect rule.

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Joseph J. Dimock's descriptions of Cuba in his travel diary provide a remarkable firsthand view of a fascinating period in the island's history. In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States was pursuing manifest destiny. The war with Mexico had result

Sound discs 1 - sound discs 10
Sup. Material: 1 book accompanying sound discs
1 facsimile of the notebook kept by Lomax in Haiti
1 facsimile of tourist map with notes made by Lomax
facsimiles of 2 snapshots taken in Haiti, tipped in book accompanying sound discs