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Sugar, cigars, and revolution : the making of Cuban New York /

More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today's prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest community of Latin Americans in the nineteenth-century Northeast. This book brings this communit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pérez, Lisandro (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press Books, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: New York stories
  • Part I. Sugar: 1823-1868
  • The port
  • Exiles, sojourners, and annexationists
  • An emerging community and a rising activism
  • Part II. War: 1868-1895
  • War and exodus
  • Cuban New York in the 1870s
  • Waging a war in Cuba ... and in New York
  • The aftermath of war and a changed community
  • Jose Martí, New Yorker
  • Epilogue: "Martí should not have died."