America's Forgotten Colony

Michael E. Neagle is an Assistant Professor of History at Nichols College, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in America in the World (Cambridge, 2013), A Companion to Woodrow Wilson, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Latino America: A State-By-State Encyclopedia. He has won grants from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Tinker Foundation, the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, and the University of Connecticut Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

• Introduction; Part I. The Hay-Quesada Era: 1. Promoting a new frontier; 2. Going south; 3. Squeezing a profit; 4. Creating community; 5. The sword of Damocles; Part II. Becoming Good Neighbors: 6. A time of struggle; 7. 'A happy society'; 8. Revolution and the last exodus; Conclusion.

'In unearthing the story of the doomed US settlement of Cuba's Isle of Pines, Michael E. Neagle weaves a tale at once complex, sad and always fascinating, a veritable saga of US hegemonic ups and downs in the Caribbean. Displaying elegant writing, remarkable research and careful judgment, America's Forgotten Colony ensures that it will never again be.' Alan McPherson, University of Oklahoma