TY  - BOOK
ED  - Palmer, Steven
ED  - Piqueras, José  Antonio
ED  - Cobos, Amparo Sánchez
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_625261
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625261
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 873034956
KW  - History
KW  - Anarchism
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Havana
KW  - United States
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b26cdbd3-0084-4b4f-adc2-9492a92d691f/625261.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31774
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham NC
PY  - 2014-03-03
SN  - 9780822376842
TI  - State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic
ER  - 
