State of ambiguity : : civic life and cultural form in Cuba's first republic / / Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sanchez, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Palmer, Steven Paul,; Piqueras Arenas, Jose A. 1955-; Sanchez Cobos, Amparo,
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 pages) :; illustrations, maps

Table of Contents

Revisiting Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sanchez -- 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 Sanchez -- 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 Farinas Borrego -- El naciente publico 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.