{"product_id":"state-of-ambiguity-9780822356301","title":"State of Ambiguity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddressing a 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, this title features contributors who explore how a broad spectrum of Cubans embraced a political and civic culture of national self-realization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Taken as a whole, this provocative collection reveals that the Cuban republic was a vibrant locus of intellectual ferment ranging from the natural sciences and architecture to medicine and the media. It is proof that the history of the Cuban republic requires much more from historians than simplistic accounts of “doctors and generals.”” -- John A. Gutiérrez * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e\"Professors and graduate students concerned with the background to the Cuban Revolution of 1959 will find much to ponder in the new approaches and material these noted authors offer in \u003ci\u003eState of Ambiguity\u003c\/i\u003e. By assembling this collection of outstanding essays-all of which are reader-friendly, free of scholarly jargon, and well-referenced-the editors have amply succeeded in their effort to challenge the three dominant views of pre-Castro Cuba by reframing the central concerns of civic and cultural life during the first republic and by opening up new avenues of investigation.\" -- Jane M. Rausch * Journal of Third World Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Revisiting Cuba's First Republic \/ Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sanchez Cobos        1   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        22   2. Shifting Sands of Cuban Science, 1875-1933 \/ Steven Palmer        54   3. Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Cuba: A View from the Sugar District of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909 \/ Rebecca J. Scott          4. Slaughterhouses and Milk Consumption in the \"Sick Republic\": Socio-Environmental Change and Sanitary Technology in Havana, 1890-1925 \/ Reinaldo Funes Monzote        121   5. Attributes for the Capital of an Austere Republic \/ Jose Antonio Piqueras        148   6. Transcending Borders: !Tierra! and the Expansion of Anarchism in Cuba after Independence \/ Amparo Sanchez Cobos        181   7. Steeds, Cocks, and Guayaberas: The Social Impact of Agrarian Reorganization in the Republic \/ Imilcy Balboa Navarro        208   8. Disctrict 25: Rotary Clubs and Regional Civic Power in Cuba, 1916-1940 \/ Maikel Farinas Borrego        231   9. El naciente publico oyente: Towards a Genealogy of the Audience in Early Republican Cuba \/ Alejandra Bronfman        251   10. New Knowledge for New Times: The Sociedad del Folklore Cubano during the \"Critical Decade\" (1923-1930) \/ Ricardo Quiza Moreno        269   11. Nation, State, and the Making of Cuban Working Class, 1920-1940 \/ Robert Whitney        292   Bibliography        323   Contributors        349   Index        353","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406080155991,"sku":"9780822356301","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822356301.jpg?v=1730494458","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-of-ambiguity-9780822356301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}