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America´s Forgotten Colony: Cuba´s Isle of Pines
Michael E. Neagle
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paperback. Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba. Series: Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316502013
SKU
V9781316502013
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About Michael E. Neagle
Michael E. Neagle is an Assistant Professor of History at Nichols College, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in America in the World (Cambridge, 2013), A Companion to Woodrow Wilson, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Latino America: A State-By-State Encyclopedia. He has won grants from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Tinker Foundation, ... Read more
Reviews for America´s Forgotten Colony: Cuba´s Isle of Pines
'In unearthing the story of the doomed US settlement of Cuba's Isle of Pines, Michael E. Neagle weaves a tale at once complex, sad and always fascinating, a veritable saga of US hegemonic ups and downs in the Caribbean. Displaying elegant writing, remarkable research and careful judgment, America's Forgotten Colony ensures that it will never again be.' Alan McPherson, University ... Read more