State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic /

State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic /

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Cuba's first republican era (1902-1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado seen at best as a prologue to the "real" revolution of 1959. This book brings together scholars from North America, Cuba...

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Other Authors: Sanchez Cobos, Amparo (Editor), Piqueras Arenas, Jose A. (Jose Antonio), 1955- (Editor), Palmer, Steven Paul (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cuba.
Cuba > Civilisation > 20e siecle.
Cuba > Civilisation > 19e siecle.
Cuba > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cuba > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Cuba > Civilization > 20th century.
Cuba > Civilization > 19th century.
Cuba > Politics and government > 20th century.
Cuba > Politics and government > 19th century.
Cuba > History > 20th century.
Cuba > History > 19th century.
Politics and government
Civilization.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Regional and national history.
Humanities.
History.
History of the Americas.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez
  • A sunken ship, a bronze eagle, and the politics of memory: the "social life" of the USS Maine in Cuba (1898-1961) / Marial Iglesias Utset
  • Shifting sands of Cuban science, 1875-1933 / Steven Palmer
  • Race, labor, and citizenship in Cuba: a view from the sugar district of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909 / Rebecca J. Scott
  • Slaughterhouses and milk consumption in the "sick republic": socio-environmental change and sanitary technology in Havana, 1890-1925 / Reinaldo Funes Monzote
  • Attributes for the capital of an austere republic / Jose Antonio Piqueras Arenas
  • Transcending borders: tierra! and the expansion of anarchism in Cuba after independence / Amparo Sánchez
  • Steeds, cocks, and guayaberas: the social impact of agrarian reorganization in the republic / Imilcy Balboa Navarro
  • District 25: rotary clubs and regional civic power in Cuba, 1916-1940 / Maikel Fariñas Borrego
  • El naciente público oyente: towards a genealogy of the audience in early republican Cuba / Alejandra Bronfman
  • New knowledge for new times: the sociedad del folklore Cubano during the "critical decade" (1923-1930) / Ricardo Quiza Moreno
  • Nation, state, and the making of the Cuban working class, 1920-1940 / Robert Whitney.

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