State of Ambiguity
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State of Ambiguity

Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic

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State of Ambiguity

Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic

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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 contributors explore how a broad spectrum of Cubans embraced a political and civic culture of national self-realization. Together, the essays in State of Ambiguity 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.

Contributors. Imilcy Balboa Navarro, Alejandra Bronfman, Maikel Fariñas Borrego, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Marial Iglesias Utset, Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras Arenas, Ricardo Quiza Moreno, Amparo Sánchez Cobos, Rebecca J. Scott, Robert Whitney

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: Revisiting Cuba's First Republic - Steven Palmer, José Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez Cobos
  3. 1. 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
  4. 2. Shifting Sands of Cuban Science, 1875-1933 - Steven Palmer
  5. 3. Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909 - Rebecca J. Scott
  6. 4. Slaughterhouses and Milk Consumption in the "Sick Republic": Socio-Enviornmental Change and Sanitary Technology in Havana, 1890-1925 - Reinaldo Funes Monzote
  7. 5. Attributes for the Capital of an Austere Republic - José Antonio Piqueras
  8. 6. Transcending Borders: ¡Tierra! and the Expansion of Anarchism in Cuba after Independance - Amparo Sánchez Cobos
  9. 7. Steeds, Cocks, and Guayaberas: The Social Impact of Agrarian Reorganization in the Republic - Imilcy Balboa Navarro
  10. 8. District 25: Rotary Clubs and Regional Civic Power in Cuba, 1916-1940 - Maikel Fariñas Borrego
  11. 9. El naciente público oyente: Toward a Genealogy of the Audience in Early Republican Cuba - Alejandra Bronfman
  12. 10. New Knowledge for New Times: The Sociedad del Folklore Cubano during the "Critical Decade" (1923-1930) - Ricardo Quiza Moreno
  13. 11. Nation, State, and the Making of the Cuban Working Class, 1920-1940 - Robert Whitney
  14. Bibliography
  15. Contributors
  16. Index