America's Forgotten Colony : Cuba's Isle of Pines (Cambridge Studies in Us Foreign Relations)

Neagle, Michael E.

Cambridge University Press（2016/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 318 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781107136854
• DDC分類 972.9106

Full 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.

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.