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

by Dennis Merrill

Book Overview

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.

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• 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"