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1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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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 |
| Summary |
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, 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 health and agrarian policies, popular culture, national memory, and the intersection of race and labor--the contributors explore how a broad spectrum of Cubans embraced a political and civic culture of national self-realization. These essays recast the first republic as a time of deep continuity in processes of liberal state- and nation-building that were periodically disrupted--but also reinvigorated--by foreign intervention and profound uncertainty |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index |
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In English |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Print version record |
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History of the Americas.
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History.
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Humanities.
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Regional and national history.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Civilization.
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Politics and government
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Cuba -- History -- 19th century
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Cuba -- History -- 20th century
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Cuba -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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Cuba -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Cuba -- Civilization -- 19th century
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Cuba -- Civilization -- 20th century
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Cuba.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Palmer, Steven Paul, editor.
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Piqueras Arenas, José A. (José Antonio), 1955- editor.
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Sanchez Cobos, Amparo, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822376842 |
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0822376849 |
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