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Title State of ambiguity : civic life and cultural form in Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sanchez, editors.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Revisiting Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sanchez -- A sunken ship, a bronze eagle, and the politics of memory: the "social life" of the USS Maine in Cuba (1898-1961) / Marial Iglesias Utset -- Shifting sands of Cuban science, 1875-1933 / Steven Palmer -- Race, labor, and citizenship in Cuba: a view from the sugar district of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909 / Rebecca J. Scott -- Slaughterhouses and milk consumption in the "sick republic": socio-environmental change and sanitary technology in Havana, 1890-1925 / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- Attributes for the capital of an austere republic / Jose Antonio Piqueras Arenas -- Transcending borders: tierra! and the expansion of anarchism in Cuba after independence / Amparo Sanchez -- Steeds, cocks, and guayaberas: the social impact of agrarian reorganization in the republic / Imilcy Balboa Navarro -- District 25: rotary clubs and regional civic power in Cuba, 1916-1940 / Maikel Farinas Borrego -- El naciente publico oyente: towards a genealogy of the audience in early republican Cuba / Alejandra Bronfman -- New knowledge for new times: the sociedad del folklore Cubano during the "critical decade" (1923-1930) / Ricardo Quiza Moreno -- Nation, state, and the making of the Cuban working class, 1920-1940 / Robert Whitney.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Cuba -- History -- 19th century.
Cuba -- History -- 20th century.
Cuba -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Cuba -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Cuba -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Cuba -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Palmer, Steven Paul, editor.
Piqueras Arenas, Jose A. (Jose Antonio), 1955- editor.
Sanchez Cobos, Amparo, editor.
Other Form: Print version: State of ambiguity : civic life and cultural form in Cuba's first republic. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 9780822356301 (DLC)10869679
ISBN 9780822356301 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822356387 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822376842 (e-book)

 
    
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