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Autore |
Swanger Joanna <1968-> |
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Titolo |
Rebel lands of Cuba : the campesino struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934-1974 / / Joanna Swanger |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Peasant uprisings - Cuba - History - 20th century |
Government, Resistance to - Cuba - History - 20th century |
Land tenure - Political aspects - Cuba - History - 20th century |
Sex role - Political aspects - Cuba - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One: Setting the Scene""; ""Chapter Two: Guajiro, Redeemer of the Nation""; ""Chapter Three: Organization and Collective Resistance in Oriente, 1934�1956""; ""Chapter Four: Atomized Land Battles in Escambray, 1934�1952""; ""Chapter Five: The Insurrection""; ""Chapter Six: Oriente""; ""Chapter Seven: Counter-revolution in Escambray""; ""Epilogue""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Author"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores the ways these differences articulated with state formation from the pre-revolutionary period of 1934-1959 and then 1959-1974 and seeks to explain why campesinos in Escambray, having been active in the insurrection against Batista, later turned to stage a massive counter-revolution against the government headed by Fidel Castro. Although campesinos in both regions had been equally ignored by pre-1959 gov |
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