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1 online resource (371 pages) |
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| Summary |
Cuba's first republican era (1902-1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado seen at best as a prologue to the "real" revolution of 1959. This book 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. These essays 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. |
| Subject |
History / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba.
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History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Palmer, Steven, editor.
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Piqueras, José Antonio, editor.
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Sanchez Cobos, Amparo, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822376842 |
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