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America's Forgotten Colony : Cuba's Isle of Pines

Neagle, Michael

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. / Isla de la Juventud (Cuba) History. / United States Relations Cuba. / Cuba Relations United States.
• ISBN: 9781107136854, 9781316502013

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F1799.I8 N43 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE