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Blazing Cane de Gillian McGillivray

Blazing Cane

Autor Gillian McGillivray
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2009

Recomandăm acest volum ca referință academică esențială pentru nivelul de licență și master în istorie, studii latino-americane sau sociologie politică. În Blazing Cane, Gillian McGillivray propune o analiză riguroasă a modului în care industria zahărului a modelat statul cubanez, de la primul Război de Independență din 1868 până la Revoluția din 1959. Autorul utilizează un element simbolic și practic central — arderea trestiei — pentru a explica mecanismele de negociere și rezistență ale muncitorilor și fermierilor în fața structurilor de putere coloniale și imperiale.

Lucrarea extinde cadrul propus de Lords of the Mountain de Louis A., Jr. Perez cu date noi din perioada 1934-1959, oferind o perspectivă mai largă asupra tranziției de la rețelele clientelare de tip caudillo la populismul de la mijlocul secolului al XX-lea. Spre deosebire de alte studii care se concentrează strict pe exploatarea forței de muncă, precum Black Labor, White Sugar, Gillian McGillivray demonstrează cum comunitățile rurale din estul și centrul Cubei au reușit să influențeze politicile de stat, transformând sabotajul economic într-un instrument de dobândire a puterii politice.

Structurată cronologic în opt capitole, cartea debutează cu analiza „pactului colonial” și evoluează spre examinarea rezistenței împotriva hegemoniei americane și a dictaturilor locale. Documentația bogată, ce include 35 de fotografii de arhivă și hărți detaliate, susține o narațiune despre modernitate, naționalism și represiune în contextul Războiului Rece. Blazing Cane nu este doar o istorie a unei mărfuri, ci o cronică a formării identității naționale prin prisma conflictului social și economic din câmpurile de trestie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822345428
ISBN-10: 0822345420
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 35 photographs, 3 tables, 3 maps, 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 154 x 231 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

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Considerăm această carte o achiziție valoroasă pentru cercetătorii interesați de istoria Cubei și de dinamica mișcărilor sociale rurale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care o singură industrie poate dicta parcursul politic al unei națiuni. Este o recomandare solidă pentru cei care doresc să depășească clișeele despre revoluțiile cubaneze, descoperind rădăcinile economice și sociale ale schimbărilor de regim din secolul trecut.

Descriere scurtă

Sugar was Cuba’s principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and the majority of the population depended on it for their livelihood. As Cuba’s dominance in sugar production declined, however, long periods of unemployment and economic depression followed, and workers lit cane fires in reaction and protest. By analyzing the experiences of workers, farmers, managers, and residents in sugar communities, Gillian McGillivray illuminates the formation and transformation of the Cuban republic during a tumultuous ninety-year period in Cuba’s history, as the country shifted from colonialism, through patronage and then populist rule, to full-scale revolutions in 1933 and 1959.Drawing upon long-neglected national and provincial archives in Cuba and the United States, McGillivray charts the course of Cuba on both a local and a national level, revealing in the process how the two intersect and reinforce one another. She focuses on two sugar communities--Chaparra, located in eastern Cuba, and Tuinucú, located in the central province of Sancti Spiritus--to examine how individuals built and sustained sugar communities, and how their actions altered the political, social, and economic structures of Cuba over time. Cane burning, at the hands of cane farmers, workers, and leaders at various points in Cuban history, became a surprising, unexpectedly powerful way to commit sabotage, take control of the harvest season, improve working conditions, protest political repression, attack colonialism and elite rule, force land reform, nationalize sugarmills, and ultimately acquire greater access to political and economic power on the island. Layering local Cuban experiences within global phenomena and international political trends, Blazing Cane reveals that much can be learned about Cuba’s revolutionary and republican periods through a look at worker and farmer mobilization.

Cuprins

Contents; About the Series; Illustrations; Tables; Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction; 1 The Colonial Compact, 1500–1895; 2 Revolutionary Destruction of the Colonial Compact, 1895–1898; 3 U.S. Power and Cuban Middlemen, 1898–1917; 4 The Patrons’ Compact: “Peace,” “Progress” and General Menocal, 1899–1919; 5 Patrons, Matrons, and Resistance, 1899–1959; 6 From Patronage to Populism and Back Again, 1919–1926; 7 Revolutionary Rejection of the Patrons’ Compact, 1926–1933; 8 The Populist Compact, 1934–1959; ConclusionAppendix. Selections from the 1946 Chaparra and Delicias Collective Contract; Notes; Glossary of Foreign Language Terms and Important Concepts; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"Blazing Cane is in the finest tradition of Cuban rural history, while at the same time clearing a new interpretative path. Gillian McGillivray analyses evolving class struggles in the countryside through the prism of sugar cane burning, primarily from the late colonial era up to the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and in doing so, challenges aspects of the revolutionary government’s interpretation of history. Her work fits nicely into an emerging body of scholarship, published in the last decade, that focuses attention on the pre-revolutionary period and seeks to add nuance andcomplexity to an era that has often been overlooked or fallen prey to simple stereotypes.... The section on the Chaparra sugar mill includes 14 photographs from the mill archives, which are of such high quality that one can almost taste the sugar being processed." Frank Argote-Freyre, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

"Gillian McGillivray offers a new and original understanding of the history of Cuba from the mid-nineteenth century to Castro’s Cuban revolution by reading that history from the perspective of two sugar communities. She stresses the agency of workers in sugar communities, who asserted demands and engaged with, as they helped shape, the rhetoric of the state and state formation. Blazing Cane is an important contribution to modern Cuban history, and a compelling case for the impossibility of separating the local from the national and transnational in any study.”--William E. French, author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico

“We know very little about the lives of sugar workers and their interactions with the managerial personnel of the mills in which they worked. Gillian McGillivray goes deep into documentary archives to address this gap in the historiography of Cuba. By examining Cuban society and politics through two sugar communities, she gives us an insightful look at how ordinary people coped with the complex and uncertain circumstances that surrounded them in the Cuban republic.”--Alejandro de la Fuente, author of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba

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"We know very little about the lives of sugar workers and their interactions with the managerial personnel of the mills in which they worked. McGillivray goes deep into documentary archives to address this vital shortcoming of the historiography of Cuba, to look at Cuban society and politics through two sugar communities. Blazing Cane gives an insightful look at how ordinary people coped with the complex and uncertain circumstances that surrounded them in the Cuban republic."--Alejandro de la Fuente, author of "A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba"

Descriere

Sugar was Cuba’s principal export from the late eighteenth century throughout much of the twentieth, and during that time, the majority of the island’s population depended on sugar production for its livelihood. In Blazing Cane, Gillian McGillivray examines the development of social classes linked to sugar production, and their contribution to the formation and transformation of the state, from the first Cuban Revolution for Independence in 1868 through the Cuban Revolution of 1959. She describes how cane burning became a powerful way for farmers, workers, and revolutionaries to commit sabotage, take control of the harvest season, improve working conditions, protest political repression, attack colonialism and imperialism, nationalize sugarmills, and, ultimately, acquire greater political and economic power.Focusing on sugar communities in eastern and central Cuba, McGillivray recounts how farmers and workers pushed the Cuban government to move from exclusive to inclusive politics and back again. The revolutionary caudillo networks that formed between 1895 and 1898, the farmer alliances that coalesced in the 1920s, and the working-class groups of the 1930s affected both day-to-day local politics and larger state-building efforts. Not limiting her analysis to the island, McGillivray shows that twentieth-century Cuban history reflected broader trends in the Western Hemisphere, from modernity to popular nationalism to Cold War repression.