State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic / Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, Amparo Sánchez Cobos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palmer, Steven, editor.

Piqueras, José Antonio, editor.

Sanchez Cobos, Amparo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

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. Contributors. Imilcy Balboa Navarro, Alejandra Bronfman, Maikel Fariñas Borrego, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Marial Iglesias Utset, Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras Arenas, Ricardo Quiza Moreno, Amparo Sánchez Cobos, Rebecca J. Scott, Robert Whitney

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Revisiting Cuba’s First Republic

CHAPTER 1 A Sunken Ship, a Bronze Eagle, and the Politics of Memory: The “Social Life” of the USS Maine in Cuba (1898–1961)

CHAPTER 2 Shifting Sands of Cuban Science, 1875–1933

CHAPTER 3 Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos, 1886–1909

CHAPTER 4 Slaughterhouses and Milk Consumption in the “Sick Republic” Socio-Environmental Change and Sanitary Technology in Havana, 1890–1925

CHAPTER 5 Attributes for the Capital of an Austere Republic

CHAPTER 6 Transcending Borders: ¡Tierra! and the Expansion of Anarchism in Cuba after Independence

CHAPTER 7 Steeds, Cocks, and Guayaberas: The Social Impact of Agrarian Reorganization in the Republic

CHAPTER 8 District 25: Rotary Clubs and Regional Civic Power in Cuba, 1916–1940

CHAPTER 9 El naciente público oyente: Toward a Genealogy of the Audience in Early Republican Cuba

CHAPTER 10 New Knowledge for New Times: The Sociedad del Folklore Cubano during the “Critical Decade” (1923–1930)

CHAPTER 11 Nation, State, and the Making of the Cuban Working Class, 1920–1940

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091301

1478091304

OCLC:

873034956

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_625261