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

Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba.

List of 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.

About the author

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, the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, and the University of Connecticut Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Summary

As US-Cuban diplomatic relations thaw in the twenty-first century, America's Forgotten Colony examines the ambivalent relationship between Americans and Cubans on the Isle of Pines in the twentieth century. Accessible to specialists, students, and general readers, this book shows how US influence adapted and endured prior to Cuba's revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Neagle, Michael (Nichols College Neagle, Michael E Neagle, Michael E. Neagle, Michael E. (Nichols College Neagle
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2016
• EAN: 9781107136854
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13685-4
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Us Foreig; Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations; Cambridge Studies in Us Foreig; Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Cuba, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas