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State of ambiguity : civic life and culture in Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez , editors
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palmer, Steven.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuba--History--19th century.
- Cuba--History--20th century.
- Cuba--Politics and government--19th century.
- Cuba--Politics and government--20th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Cuba--History--19th century.
- Cuba--History--20th century.
- Cuba--Politics and government--19th century.
- Cuba--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- 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
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print record, CIP data from the publisher, and e-publication e-publication, viewed on November 17, 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780822376842
- 0822376849
- OCLC:
- 873034956
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