Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba

by Rosalie Schwartz

Book Overview

Pleasure Island explores the tourism industry in Cuba between 1920 and 1960, as international travel ceased to be primarily a privilege of the wealthy, incorporating the world's growing middle class. Rosalie Schwartz examines tourists' changing ideas of leisure and recreation, as well as the response of a colonial-era Spanish city turned fleshpot and endless cabaret. The tourism industry mushroomed in and around Havana after 1920, as hundreds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803292651
• ISBN13: 9780803292659
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"