Paradise Lost: Beach Tourism and the Development of Cancún

Every year, millions of tourists from the United States and around the world flock to Cancún--Mexico's most popular and profitable destination. Paradise Lost provides the first history of Cancún and uncovers the hidden mechanisms through which this remote Maya island in the Mexican Caribbean was transformed into an international tourist hub. Drawing on numerous archives in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and national capital, and dozens of oral histories with Cancún's founding workers, Carlos R....