{"product_id":"intimations-of-modernity-civil-culture-in-nineteenth-century-cuba-9781469651538","title":"Intimations of Modernity: Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba","description":"Louis A. Pérez 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, Pérez 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 Pérez, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePérez highlights women's centrality in this process, showing how \u003ci\u003ecriollas\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eabanico\u003c\/i\u003e, the fan, in different ways -- exposed how traditional systems of power and privilege clashed with norms of modernity and progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louis A. Jr. Pérez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.51h x 7.83w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469651538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouis A. Pérez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Academia de la Historia de Cuba, Pérez is author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45115630026867,"sku":"9781469651538","price":48.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_c4ef25f8-6fea-4223-be6c-b049aacbf2c1.jpg?v=1781788040","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/intimations-of-modernity-civil-culture-in-nineteenth-century-cuba-9781469651538","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}