Blazing cane : sugar communities, class, and state formation in Cuba, 1868-1959 /
Gillian McGillivray.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- xxvi, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- American encounters/global interactions .
- American encounters/global interactions. .
Includes bibliographical references ([p. 349]-365) and index.
The colonial compact, 1500/1895 -- Revolutionary destruction of the colonial compact, 1895/98 -- U.S. power and Cuban middlemen, 1898/1917 -- The patrons' compact : "peace," "progress," and General Menocal, 1899/1919 -- Patrons, matrons, and resistance, 1899/1959 -- From patronage to populism and back again, 1919/26 -- Revolutionary rejection of the patrons' compact, 1926/33 -- The populist compact, 1934/59.
Sugarcane industry--History--Cuba--19th century. Sugarcane industry--History--Cuba--20th century. Industria de la caņa de azúcar--Cuba--Historia--Del siglo 19. Industria de la caņa de azúcar--Cuba--Historia--Del siglo 20.