State of ambiguity : civic life and culture in Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez Cobos, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, Steven Paul.

Piqueras Arenas, José A. (José Antonio), 1955-

Sanchez Cobos, Amparo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Politics and government.

History.

Cuba--History--19th century.

Cuba.

Cuba--History--20th century.

Cuba--Politics and government--19th century.

Cuba--Politics and government--20th century.

Cuba--Civilization--19th century.

Cuba--Civilization--20th century.

Physical Description:

365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 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. Together, the essays in State of Ambiguity 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822356301

0822356309

9780822356387

0822356384

OCLC:

865711601