UID:
almahu_9947382616602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (372 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-7684-9
Inhalt:
Cuba's first republican era (1902-1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, typically depicted as an illegitimate period in the nation's history, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado at best a prologue to the ""real"" revolution of 1959. State of Ambiguity brings together scholars from North America, Cuba, and Spain to challenge this narrative, presenting republican Cuba instead as a time of meaningful engagement-socially, politically, and symbolically. Addressing a wide range of topics-civic clubs and folkloric societies, science
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Revisiting Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, José 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 / José 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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Also available in print form.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 0822356309
Sprache:
Englisch
