Rosalie Schwartz

Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba

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In her scholarly but often fascinating study, Schwartz examines the changing ideas of leisure and recreation in Havana, the 'Paris of the Antilles' to which U.S. tourists thronged for its forbidden enticements and never-ending cabaret. Schwartz's report is heavily tinged with politics, of course, but high spirits and nostalgia also seep from its pages.-Miami Herald. A well-researched description of tourism in Cuba, mainly from the Twenties to the Sixties. The emphasis is on American tourists, the most numerous until Castro, and the history is chronological, showing how World Wars I and II affected Cuban industry. Schwartz describes the Mafia… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8032-9265-9
EAN: 9780803292659
Produktnummer: 1834721
Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 247 S.
Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 367 g
Auflage: Revised
Gewicht: 367

Über den Autor

Rosalie Schwartz taught history at San Diego State University and is the author of Lawless Liberators: Political Banditry and Cuban Independence, winner of the 1990 Hubert Herring Book Prize.