Social struggle and civil society in nineteenth century Cuba / edited by Richard E. Morris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morris, Richard E., 1968- editor, author.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas

Routledge studies in the history of the Americas 34.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Cuba--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Agriculture--Cuba--History--19th century.

Agriculture.

Cuba--History--1810-1899.

Cuba.

Cuba--Social conditions--19th century.

Cuba--Economic conditions--19th century.

Cuba--Social life and customs--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 175 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Richard E. Morris is Professor of Spanish at Middle Tennessee State University. His research spans a range of topics, including Spanish dialectology, the geopolitics of sugarcane, and the development of U.S. tourism in Cuba. His documentary Milton Hershey's Cuba was a selection of the 2016 Culture Unplugged Film Festival.

Contents:

About the contributors

List of figures

List of tables

Map of Cuba in 1850

Introduction / Richard E. Morris

Chapter 1 : Transformations of the Cuban plantation system and the transatlantic slave trade during the long nineteenth century / William C. Van Norman, Jr.

Chapter 2 : Tobacco in the age of Cuba's second slavery / William A. Morgan

Chapter 3 : A racial economy of care: incarceration, labor extraction, and charity in Cuba's nineteenth-century slave society / Bonnie A. Lucero

Chapter 4 : Breaking chains: resistance, freedom, and the end of Chinese indentured labor in Cuba / Benjamín N. Narváez

Chapter 5 : Cuban industrial development and its heritage / Ilka Pell Delgado

Chapter 6 : Dreams and nightmares in the Planter's metropolis / Asiel Sepúlveda

Chapter 7 : Bullfights, cockfights, and other evils: origins of the "Cuba Threat" in U.S. travel literature / Richard E. Morris

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 11, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Social struggle and civil society in nineteenth century Cuba

ISBN:

9781003154716

1003154719

9781000850086

1000850080

9781000850093

1000850099

Publisher Number:

40031687769

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.