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

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"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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Main Author: Perez, Lisandro (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press Books, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Immigrants.
Ethnic relations.
Cubans.
Cuban Americans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Cubains > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Americains d'origine cubaine > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Cubans > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Cuban Americans > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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