Gillian McGillivray

Blazing Cane

Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"We know very little about the lives of sugar workers and their interactions with the managerial personnel of the mills in which they worked. McGillivray goes deep into documentary archives to address this vital shortcoming of the historiography of Cuba, to look at Cuban society and politics through two sugar communities. Blazing Cane gives an insightful look at how ordinary people coped with the complex and uncertain circumstances that surrounded them in the Cuban republic."--Alejandro de la Fuente, author of "A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345428
• ISBN-10: 0822345420
• Artikelnr.: 26552122

Autorenporträt

Gillian McGillivray

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Chronology of Major Political Events xiii
Introduction 1
1. The Colonial Compact, 1500–1895 13
2. Revolutionary Destruction of the Colonial Compact, 1895–98 37
3. U.S. Power and Cuban Middlemen, 1898–1917 63
4. The Patrons' Compact: "Peace," "Progresss," and General Menocal,
1899–1919 86
5. Patrons, Matrons, and Resistance, 1899–1959 118
6. From Patronage to Populism and Back Again, 1919–26 145
7. Revolutionary Rejection of the Patrons' Compact, 1926–33 188
8. The Populist Compact, 1934–59 226
Conclusion 272
Appendix. Selections from the 1946 Chaparra and Delicias Collective
Contract 279
Notes 287
Glossary 345
Bibliography 349
Index 367