Reimagining a tropical paradise: the circulation of imperial ideologies in early-twentieth-century Caribbean cruise guidebooks
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that early-twentieth-century cruise guidebooks deployed ideologies about Caribbean spaces and cultures constructed through imperial conquest. It examines how two influential travel writers, Harry L. Foster and Eleanor Early, shaped touristic perceptions of the region and its inhabitants. Unlike shipping lines such as the United Fruit Company, which presented a tropical paradise for overworked urbanites to regain their health, these cruise guides sought to move beyond such stereotypes by emphasising the distinctiveness of Caribbean nations. However, this emphasis on difference was framed through imperial ideologies. Consequently, while Foster and Early urged cruise passengers to avoid oversimplifying the Caribbean, their narratives ultimately encouraged travellers to perceive the region and its inhabitants using ideologies forged through western conquest. In doing so, these cruise guidebooks reproduced the language of empire to reimagine the Caribbean as a leisure destination for a growing US market.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it