{"product_id":"blazing-cane-9780822345428","title":"Blazing Cane","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscusses the national and transnational implications of local developments in two sugar mill communities in Cuba.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lucidly written, sophisticated, marvelously nuanced, and meticulously researched. . . . This is simply superb history. Summing Up: Essential. All levels\/libraries.” - F. W. Knight, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McGillivray’s research has been terrific. . . . She has wisely combined archival documents, a considerable number of newspaper articles, and interviews, broadening her analysis and cementing her conclusions. Overall, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a courageous take on this aspect of the history of twentieth-century Cuba. . .” - Manuel Barcia, \u003ci\u003eA Contracorriente\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McGillivray’s insistence on embedding the history of the two sugar communities within the broad sweep of Cuba’s historical development makes this book especially attractive to teachers as well as researchers. Indeed, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e could profitably be used as the core text for courses dealing with Cuban history in the one hundred years preceding the 1959 Revolution, and as a model for how to study the interactions between local, regional, national, and transnational forces.” - Barry Carr, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e is in the finest tradition of Cuban rural history, while at the same time clearing a new interpretative path. . . . \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane \u003c\/i\u003eis well suited for a general audience. The section on the Chaparra sugar mill includes 14 photographs from the mill archives, which are of such high quality that one can almost taste the sugar being processed.”\u003cbr\u003e - Frank Argote-Freyre, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e, McGillivray has given Cubanists — and Latin Americanists in general — a treat: a book both accessible to undergraduates and meaty enough for a graduate class, one that offers convincing answers to many questions and at the same time suggests new avenues of research. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fresh vision of Cuba in the twentieth century, tying the nation into larger regional trends rather than separating\u003cbr\u003eit from them. In the end, like the cane fires that flare up throughout the book to signal moments of change, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e may itself be a marker, lighting a new path in the study of Cuban history.” - Joshua H. Nadel, \u003ci\u003eLabor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book offers a new understanding of Cuba’s sugar politics. It will prove essential to anyone interested in pre-1959 Cuban history or in the relationship of the middle class to state formation in Latin America.” - Aline Helg, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gillian McGillivray offers a new and original understanding of the history of Cuba from the mid-nineteenth century to the Cuban revolution by reading it from the perspective of two sugar communities. She stresses the agency of workers in sugar communities, who asserted demands and engaged with, as they helped shape, the rhetoric of the state and state formation. \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to modern Cuban history, and a compelling case for the impossibility of separating the local from the national and transnational in any study.”—\u003cb\u003eWilliam French\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We know very little about the lives of sugar workers and their interactions with the managerial personnel of the mills in which they worked. McGillivray goes deep into documentary archives to address this vital shortcoming of the historiography of Cuba, to look at Cuban society and politics through two sugar communities. Blazing Cane gives an insightful look at how ordinary people coped with the complex and uncertain circumstances that surrounded them in the Cuban republic.”—\u003cb\u003eAlejandro de la Fuente\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e is in the finest tradition of Cuban rural history, while at the same time clearing a new interpretative path. . . . \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane \u003c\/i\u003eis well suited for a general audience. The section on the Chaparra sugar mill includes 14 photographs from the mill archives, which are of such high quality that one can almost taste the sugar being processed.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Frank Argote-Freyre * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Lucidly written, sophisticated, marvelously nuanced, and meticulously researched. . . . This is simply superb history. Summing Up: Essential. All levels\/libraries.” -- F. W. Knight * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“McGillivray’s insistence on embedding the history of the two sugar communities within the broad sweep of Cuba’s historical development makes this book especially attractive to teachers as well as researchers. Indeed, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e could profitably be used as the core text for courses dealing with Cuban history in the one hundred years preceding the 1959 Revolution, and as a model for how to study the interactions between local, regional, national, and transnational forces.” -- Barry Carr * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“McGillivray’s research has been terrific. . . . She has wisely combined archival documents, a considerable number of newspaper articles, and interviews, broadening her analysis and cementing her conclusions. Overall, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a courageous take on this aspect of the history of twentieth-century Cuba. . .” -- Manuel Barcia * A Contracorriente *\u003cbr\u003e“This book offers a new understanding of Cuba’s sugar politics. It will prove essential to anyone interested in pre-1959 Cuban history or in the relationship of the middle class to state formation in Latin America.” -- Aline Helg * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e, McGillivray has given Cubanists — and Latin Americanists in general — a treat: a book both accessible to undergraduates and meaty enough for a graduate class, one that offers convincing answers to many questions and at the same time suggests new avenues of research. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fresh vision of Cuba in the twentieth century, tying the nation into larger regional trends rather than separating it from them. In the end, like the cane fires that flare up throughout the book to signal moments of change, \u003ci\u003eBlazing Cane\u003c\/i\u003e may itself be a marker, lighting a new path in the study of Cuban history.” -- Joshua H. Nadel * Labor *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Major Political Events xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Colonial Compact, 1500–1895 13\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revolutionary Destruction of the Colonial Compact, 1895–98 37\u003cbr\u003e 3. U.S. Power and Cuban Middlemen, 1898–1917 63\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Patrons' Compact: \"Peace,\" \"Progresss,\" and General Menocal, 1899–1919 86\u003cbr\u003e 5. Patrons, Matrons, and Resistance, 1899–1959 118\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Patronage to Populism and Back Again, 1919–26 145\u003cbr\u003e 7. Revolutionary Rejection of the Patrons' Compact, 1926–33 188\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Populist Compact, 1934–59 226\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 272\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Selections from the 1946 Chaparra and Delicias Collective Contract 279\u003cbr\u003e Notes 287\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 345\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 349\u003cbr\u003e Index 367","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406056628567,"sku":"9780822345428","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822345428.jpg?v=1730494383","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blazing-cane-9780822345428","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}