Rebel lands of Cuba : the campesino struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934-1974 / / Joanna Swanger
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 972.9106/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Oriente (Cuba : Province) Politics and government 20th century |
| Escambray Mountains (Cuba) Politics and government 20th century | |
| Oriente (Cuba : Province) Rural conditions | |
| Escambray Mountains (Cuba) Rural conditions | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rebel lands of Cuba |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797271203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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