Author: PrincePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Guide Book of General Information Relative to Havana, Matanzas and the Island of Cuba, 1889
Author: PrinceSources of Information on Military Information, a Classified List of Books and Publication, November 10, 1897
Author: United States. Military Information Division. War DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Sources of Information on Military Professional Subjects
Author: United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Jesse E. Moorland Collection of Negro Life and History, Howard University Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Moorland FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Place index
Author: Intimations of Modernity
Author: Louis A. Pérez Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence. Contributing to the cultural history of capitalism in Latin America, Perez argues that such creoles were cosmopolitans with powerful transnational affinities and an abiding identification with modernity. This period of Cuban history is usually viewed through a political lens, but Perez, here emphasizing the character of everyday life within the increasingly fraught colonial system, shows how moral, social, and cultural change that resulted from market forces also contributed to conditions leading to the collapse of the Spanish colonial administration. Perez highlights women's centrality in this process, showing how criollas adapted to new modes of self-representation as a means of self-fulfillment. Increasing opportunities for middle-class women's public presence and social participation was both cause and consequence of expanding consumerism and of women's challenges to prevailing gender hierarchies. Seemingly simple actions--riding a bicycle, for example, or deploying the abanico, the fan, in different ways--exposed how traditional systems of power and privilege clashed with norms of modernity and progress.