Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba

This collection of research from Cuba scholars explores key conflicts, episodes, currents, and tensions that helped shape Cuba as a modern, independent nation.

List of contents

Introduction  1. Transformations of the Cuban Plantation System and the Transatlantic Slave Trade during the Long Nineteenth Century  2. Tobacco in the Age of Cuba's Second Slavery  3. A Racial Economy of Care: Incarceration, Labor Extraction, and Charity in Cuba's Nineteenth-Century Slave Society  4. Breaking Chains: Resistance, Freedom, and the End of Chinese Indentured Labor in Cuba  5. Cuban Industrial Development and Its Heritage  6. Dreams and Nightmares in the Planter's Metropolis  7. Bullfights, Cockfights, and Other Evils: Origins of the "Cuba Threat" in U.S. Travel Literature

About the author

Richard E. Morris is Professor of Spanish at Middle Tennessee State University. His research spans a range of topics, including Spanish dialectology, the geopolitics of sugarcane, and the development of U.S. tourism in Cuba. His documentary Milton Hershey’s Cuba was a selection of the 2016 Culture Unplugged Film Festival.

Summary

This collection of research from Cuba scholars explores key conflicts, episodes, currents, and tensions that helped shape Cuba as a modern, independent nation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Richard E. Morris (Editor), Morris Richard E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9780367724160
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72416-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Latin America, Cuba, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, HISTORY / Latin America / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas