Sugar, cigars, and revolution
Subtitle: the making of Cuban New York
By: Lisandro Pérez
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780814767276
Subjects: Cubans; Cuban Americans; Immigrants; Ethnic relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-383) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: New York stories; title: Part I. Sugar: 1823-1868; title: The port; title: Exiles, sojourners, and annexationists; title: An emerging community and a rising activism; title: Part II. War: 1868-1895; title: War and exodus; title: Cuban New York in the 1870s; title: Waging a war in Cuba...and in New York; title: The aftermath of war and a changed community; title: José Martí, New Yorker; title: Epilogue: "Martí should not have died."