TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanchez Cobos,Amparo
AU  - Piqueras Arenas,Jose A.
AU  - Palmer,Steven Paul
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - State of Ambiguity : : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic / 
SN  - 9780822376842
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Mexico
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Regional and national history
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Humanities
KW  - History
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Revisiting Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez -- 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 Sánchez -- 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 Fariñas Borrego -- El naciente público 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; Open Access
N2  - Cuba's first republican era (1902-1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado seen at best as a prologue to the "real" revolution of 1959. This book brings together scholars from North America, Cuba, and Spain to challenge this narrative, presenting republican Cuba instead as a time of meaningful engagement--socially, politically, and symbolically. Addressing a wide range of topics--civic clubs and folkloric societies, science, public health and agrarian policies, popular culture, national memory, and the intersection of race and labor--the contributors explore how a broad spectrum of Cubans embraced a political and civic culture of national self-realization. These essays recast the first republic as a time of deep continuity in processes of liberal state- and nation-building that were periodically disrupted--but also reinvigorated--by foreign intervention and profound uncertainty
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64041/
ER  -