Frontiers, plantations, and walled cities
Subtitle: essays on society, culture, and politics in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1800-1945
By: Luis Martínez-Fernández
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781558765115; 9781558765122
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The frontier and the plantation : two competing keys to Cuban and Caribbean culture; title: The sweet and the bitter : Cuba and Puerto Rico's responses to the mid-nineteenth-century sugar challenge; title: Life in a "male city" : Cuban and foreign women in nineteenth-century Havana; title: Crypto-Protestants and pseudo-Catholics in the nineteenth-century Hispanic Caribbean; title: Caudillos, annexationism, and the rivalry between empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1874; title: Puerto Rico in the whirlwind of 1898 : conflict, continuity, and change; title: Political culture in the Hispanic Caribbean and the building of U.S. hegemony, 1868-1945.