| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Caravan book
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Caravan book.
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| Note |
"A Caravan book"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-325) and index. |
| Summary |
For more than two hundred often turbulent 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. One of the foremost historians of Cuba, 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. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Idea of Cuba; 1 Metaphor between Motive and Meaning; 2 Imagining Self-Interest; 3 Metaphor as Paradigm; 4 On Gratitude as Moral Currency of Empire; 5 Shifting Metaphors, Changing Meanings: Representing Revolution; 6 Through the Prism of Metaphor: Accommodation to Empire; Notes; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Relations -- Cuba.
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United States. |
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Relations. |
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Cuba. |
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Cuba -- Relations -- United States.
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Cuba -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Metaphor -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
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Metaphor -- Political aspects. |
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History. |
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Metaphor. |
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Imperialism -- History.
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Imperialism. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Popular culture. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Political culture. |
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Public opinion -- United States -- History.
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Public opinion. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pérez, Louis A., 1943- Cuba in the American imagination. Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press, ©2008 9780807832165 0807832162 (DLC) 2008000078 (OCoLC)191009573 |
| ISBN |
9780807886946 (electronic book) |
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0807886947 (electronic book) |
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9781469603773 (electronic book) |
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1469603772 (electronic book) |
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9780807832165 |
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0807832162 |
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9780807886984 |
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080788698X |
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9780807872109 |
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0807872105 |
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