Author: Francisco IturrondoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : es
Pages : 28
Book Description
Rasgos descriptivos de la naturaleza Cubana
Author: Francisco IturrondoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : es
Pages : 28
Book Description
Naturaleza Y Alma de Cuba
Author: Carlos RipollTo Die in Cuba
Author: Louis A. Pérez Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146960874X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society. In a study that spans the experiences of enslaved Africans and indentured Chinese in the colony, nationalists of the twentieth-century republic, and emigrants from Cuba to Florida following the 1959 revolution, Perez finds that the act of suicide was loaded with meanings that changed over time. Analyzing the social context of suicide, he argues that in addition to confirming despair, suicide sometimes served as a way to consecrate patriotism, affirm personal agency, or protest injustice. The act was often seen by suicidal persons and their contemporaries as an entirely reasonable response to circumstances of affliction, whether economic, political, or social. Bringing an important historical perspective to the study of suicide, Perez offers a valuable new understanding of the strategies with which vast numbers of people made their way through life--if only to choose to end it. To Die in Cuba ultimately tells as much about Cubans' lives, culture, and society as it does about their self-inflicted deaths.
A History of the Cuban Nation: Illustration, freedom of commerce (from 1790 up to 1857)
Author: Philologica Pragensia
Author: HOMAGE TO IRVING A. LEONARD
Author: Homage to Irving A. Leonard
Author: Raquel Chang-RodríguezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : es
Pages : 528
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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.