{"product_id":"pleasure-island-rosalie-schwartz-9780803292659","title":"Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba","description":"\u003ci\u003ePleasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e 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 of thousands of North Americans transformed the city in collaboration with a local business and political elite. The Depression, exacerbated by a bloody revolution in 1933, plunged the tourism industry into a downward spiral; its steady comeback after World War II, and its Mafia-influenced 1950s heyday, ended abruptly when Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. The tourist stream was diverted to Cuba's Caribbean neighbors, where it remains. This work is a history of a very idiosyncratic industry, as well as a study of mass tourism's influence on the behavior, attitudes, and cultures of two politically linked but diverse nations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosalie Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803292651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803292659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 5.97w x 0.55d","brand":"Rosalie Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227543007487,"sku":"9780803292659","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a70a582-13b0-4e23-bb21-ecb017a0fc8e.jpg?v=1692809254","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pleasure-island-rosalie-schwartz-9780803292659","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}