About the book
For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images — Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Pérez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Pérez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America’s imperial impulses over Cuba.
Editions of Cuba in the American Imagination
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807832165
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780807872109
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780807886939
- EBook
- ISBN 9780807886946
- EBook
- ISBN 9798890882615
- EBook
- ISBN 9798893133028
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- ISBN 9781469603773
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For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images — Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Pérez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Pérez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America’s imperial impulses over Cuba.
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For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images — Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Pérez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and changed since the early nineteenth century. Drawing on texts and visual images produced by Americans ranging from government officials, policy makers, and journalists to travelers, tourists, poets, and lyricists, Pérez argues that these charged and coded images of persuasion and mediation were in service to America’s imperial impulses over Cuba.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Cuba in the American Imagination?
History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
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Cuba in the American Imagination has 352 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Cuba in the American Imagination?
Louis A. Pérez
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Cuba in the American Imagination is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807832165) and paperback(ISBN 9780807872109) and paperback(ISBN 9780807886939) and ebook(ISBN 9780807886946) and ebook(ISBN 9798890882615) and ebook(ISBN 9798893133028) and ebook(ISBN 9781469603773)
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