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Blazing cane : sugar communities, class, and state formation in Cuba, 1868-1959 / Gillian McGillivray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGillivray, Gillian, 1971-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American encounters/global interactions.
- American encounters/global interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugarcane industry--Cuba--History--19th century.
- Sugarcane industry.
- Sugarcane industry--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Cuba--History--1810-1899.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--History--1895-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offers a new understanding of the history of Cuba from the mid-nineteenth century to the Cuban revolution by showing the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities.
- Contents:
- The colonial compact, 1500/1895
- Revolutionary destruction of the colonial compact, 1895/98
- U.S. power and Cuban middlemen, 1898/1917
- The patrons' compact : "peace," "progress," and General Menocal, 1899/1919
- Patrons, matrons, and resistance, 1899/1959
- From patronage to populism and back again, 1919/26
- Revolutionary rejection of the patrons' compact, 1926/33
- The populist compact, 1934/59.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references ([p. 349]-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035875
- 9781283035873
- 1283035871
- 9780822391050
- 0822391058
- OCLC:
- 609924586
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