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Cuba's Cosmopolitan Enclaves : Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns / Frances Peace Sullivan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sullivan, Frances Peace, author.
- Series:
- Caribbean crossroads.
- Caribbean Crossroads
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar trade--Cuba--Oriente (Province)--History--20th century.
- Sugar trade.
- Sugar workers--Cuba--Oriente (Province)--History--20th century.
- Sugar workers.
- Sugar factories--Cuba--Oriente (Province)--History--20th century.
- Sugar factories.
- Company towns--Cuba--Oriente (Province)--History--20th century.
- Company towns.
- Strikes and lockouts--Agricultural laborers--Cuba--Oriente (Province)--History--20th century.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Holguín (Cuba : Province)--History--20th century.
- Holguín (Cuba : Province).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- This book explores how northeastern Cuba became a hub of international solidarity and transnational movements in the 1920s and 1930s, showing how the Oriente Province emerged as a focal point for global visions of resistance.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Company Towns and Cosmopolitanism in the US-Caribbean World
- 1. Constructing Oriente's Cosmopolitan Coast
- 2. Garveyism, Community Building, and Forging Diaspora in Company Towns
- 3. "The Weakest Link of Imperialism's Chain in the Caribbean": Sugar Workers, Organized Labor, and Global Communism
- 4. "Hands Off Cuba": The Sugar Insurgency of 1933 and International Responses
- 5. In Defense of the Spanish Republic: Oriental Antifascism at Home and Abroad
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sullivan, Frances Peace Cuba's Cosmopolitan Enclaves
- ISBN:
- 9781683405276
- OCLC:
- 1519985910
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