To Hell With Paradise: A History Of The Jamaican Tourist Industry

by Frank Taylor and Frank Fonda Taylor

Book Overview

In the course of the nineteenth century, Jamaica transformed itself from a pestilence-ridden \u201cwhite man\u2019s graveyard\u201d to a sun-drenched tourist paradise. Deftly combining economics with political and cultural history, Frank Fonda Taylor examines this puzzling about-face and explores the growth of the tourist industry into the 1990s. He argues that the transformations in image and reality were not accidental or due simply to nature\u2019s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958236
• ISBN13: 9780822958239
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 9.2"