McGillivray / Joseph / Rosenberg Blazing Cane

Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868–1959
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9105-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 414 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGillivray, Gillian

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gillian McGillivray is Associate Professor of History at Glendon College, York University.