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Online-Ressource (372 p)
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9780822356301
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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, public hea
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Contents; Introduction: Revisiting Cuba's First Republic - Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez Cobos; 1. 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; 2. Shifting Sands of Cuban Science, 1875-1933 - Steven Palmer; 3. Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909 - Rebecca J. Scott
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4. Slaughterhouses and Milk Consumption in the ""Sick Republic"": Socio-Enviornmental Change and Sanitary Technology in Havana, 1890-1925 - Reinaldo Funes Monzote5. Attributes for the Capital of an Austere Republic - José Antonio Piqueras; 6. Transcending Borders: ¡Tierra! and the Expansion of Anarchism in Cuba after Independance - Amparo Sánchez Cobos; 7. Steeds, Cocks, and Guayaberas: The Social Impact of Agrarian Reorganization in the Republic - Imilcy Balboa Navarro; 8. District 25: Rotary Clubs and Regional Civic Power in Cuba, 1916-1940 - Maikel Fariñas Borrego
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9. El naciente público oyente: Toward a Genealogy of the Audience in Early Republican Cuba - Alejandra Bronfman10. New Knowledge for New Times: The Sociedad del Folklore Cubano during the ""Critical Decade"" (1923-1930) - Ricardo Quiza Moreno; 11. Nation, State, and the Making of the Cuban Working Class, 1920-1940 - Robert Whitney; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822376842
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822356301
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba’s First Republic
Language:
English
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