{"product_id":"state-of-ambiguity-civic-life-and-culture-in-cubas-first-republic-9780822356301","title":"State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic","description":"Cuba's first republican era (1902-1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, typically depicted as an illegitimate period in the nation's history, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado at best a prologue to the \"real\" revolution of 1959. \u003ci\u003eState of Ambiguity\u003c\/i\u003e brings together scholars from North America, Cuba, and Spain to challenge this narrative, presenting republican Cuba instead as a time of meaningful engagement-socially, politically, and symbolically. Addressing a wide range of topics-civic clubs and folkloric societies, science, public health and agrarian policies, popular culture, national memory, and the intersection of race and labor-the contributors explore how a broad spectrum of Cubans embraced a political and civic culture of national self-realization. Together, the essays in \u003ci\u003eState of Ambiguity\u003c\/i\u003e recast the first republic as a time of deep continuity in processes of liberal state- and nation-building that were periodically disrupted-but also reinvigorated-by foreign intervention and profound uncertainty.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Imilcy Balboa Navarro, Alejandra Bronfman, Maikel Fari as Borrego, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Marial Iglesias Utset, Steven Palmer, Jos  Antonio Piqueras Arenas, Ricardo Quiza Moreno, Amparo S nchez Cobos, Rebecca J. Scott, Robert Whitney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Palmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822356301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven Palmer is Canada Research Chair in History of International Health and Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with Iván Molina) of \u003ci\u003eThe Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJosé Antonio Piqueras is Chair of Contemporary History at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain. He is the author of several books on Cuban and Caribbean history, including \u003ci\u003eTrabajo libre y coactivo en sociedades de plantación\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmparo Sánchez Cobos is Assistant Professor of History at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain, and the author of \u003ci\u003eSembrando ideales. Anarquistas españoles en Cuba.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40198620741747,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":109.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_58563896-d92e-4f50-bc78-deb5b2027f89.jpg?v=1656079364","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/state-of-ambiguity-civic-life-and-culture-in-cubas-first-republic-9780822356301","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}