Title: Frontiers, plantations, and walled cities : essays on society, culture, and politics in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1800-1945 /
Authors: Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960-
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Caribbean Area.; Plantation life Caribbean Area History.; Caribbean Area History; Caribbean Area Social life and customs.; Caribbean Area Politics and government; Cuba History.; Puerto Rico History; Dominican Republic History.; Caribbean Area Relations United States.; United States Relations Caribbean Area.
Contents: The frontier and the plantation : two competing keys to Cuban and Caribbean culture -- The sweet and the bitter : Cuba and Puerto Rico's responses to the mid-nineteenth-century sugar challenge -- Life in a "male city" : Cuban and foreign women in nineteenth-century Havana -- Crypto-Protestants and pseudo-Catholics in the nineteenth-century Hispanic Caribbean -- Caudillos, annexationism, and the rivalry between empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1874 -- Puerto Rico in the whirlwind of 1898 : conflict, continuity, and change -- Political culture in the Hispanic Caribbean and the building of U.S. hegemony, 1868-1945.