Blazing cane
Subtitle: sugar communities, class, and state formation in Cuba, 1868/1959
By: Gillian McGillivray.
Series: American encounters/global interactions; American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780822345244; 9780822345428
Subjects: Sugarcane industry -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; Sugarcane industry -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century; Cuba -- History -- 1810-1899; Cuba -- History -- 1895-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The colonial compact, 1500/1895; title: Revolutionary destruction of the colonial compact, 1895/98; title: U.S. power and Cuban middlemen, 1898/1917; title: The patrons' compact : "peace," "progress," and General Menocal, 1899/1919; title: Patrons, matrons, and resistance, 1899/1959; title: From patronage to populism and back again, 1919/26; title: Revolutionary rejection of the patrons' compact, 1926/33; title: The populist compact, 1934/59.