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State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba´s First Republic
Steven
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Hardback. Addressing a 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, this title features contributors who explore how a broad spectrum of Cubans embraced a political and civic culture of national self-realization. Editor(s): Palmer, Steven; Piqueras, Jose Antonio; Sanchez Cobos, Amparo. Num Pages: 376 pages, 36 photos, 1 table, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBG; HBJF; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 25. Weight in Grams: 645.
Cuba's first republican era (1902–1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, typically depicted as an illegitimate period in the nation's history, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado at best a prologue to the "real" revolution of 1959. State of Ambiguity 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 ... Read more
Cuba's first republican era (1902–1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, typically depicted as an illegitimate period in the nation's history, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado at best a prologue to the "real" revolution of 1959. State of Ambiguity 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356301
SKU
V9780822356301
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About Steven
Steven Palmer is Canada Research Chair in History of International Health and Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940 and coeditor (with Iván Molina) of The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics, both also published by Duke ... Read more
Reviews for State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba´s First Republic
“Taken as a whole, this provocative collection reveals that the Cuban republic was a vibrant locus of intellectual ferment ranging from the natural sciences and architecture to medicine and the media. It is proof that the history of the Cuban republic requires much more from historians than simplistic accounts of “doctors and generals.””
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