Dictator's Dreamscape : How Architecture and Vision Built Machado's Cuba and Invented Modern Havana /

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"Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalogue his regime'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartman, Joseph R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Machado y Morales, Gerardo > 1871-1939
Machado y Morales, Gerardo, > 1871-1939.
Öffentliches Gebäude
Baupolitik
Public works.
Buildings.
Architecture.
HISTORY > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
15.85 history of America.
Travaux publics > Cuba > La Havane > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Architecture > Cuba > La Havane > Histoire.
Public works > Cuba > Havana > History > 20th century.
Architecture > Cuba > Havana > History.
Cuba.
Kuba.
Havanna
Cuba > Havana.
Havana (Cuba) > Buildings, structures, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Temple of the Benevolent Dictator; 2. Repeating Monuments, Repeating Islands; 3. By Ford! Tempests, Airplanes, and Automobiles; 4. Testimonies in Stone and Light; 5. Cárcel Cuba, the Plantation Vortex; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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