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Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution : The Making of Cuban New York /

"New York became the primary destination for Cuban emigres in search of an education, opportunity, wealth, to start a new life or forget an old one, to evade royal authority, plot a revolution, experience freedom, or to buy and sell goods. While many of their stories ended tragically, others we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perez, Lisandro (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press Books, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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."