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

by Michael E. Neagle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107136857
• ISBN13: 9781107136854
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"