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Blazing Cane : Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959 /

Offers a new understanding of the history of Cuba from the mid-nineteenth century to the Cuban revolution by showing the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGillivray, Gillian, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The colonial compact, 1500/1895
  • Revolutionary destruction of the colonial compact, 1895/98
  • U.S. power and Cuban middlemen, 1898/1917
  • The patrons' compact : "peace," "progress," and General Menocal, 1899/1919
  • Patrons, matrons, and resistance, 1899/1959
  • From patronage to populism and back again, 1919/26
  • Revolutionary rejection of the patrons' compact, 1926/33
  • The populist compact, 1934/59.