Bibliograph

Sugar, cigars, and revolution, the making of Cuban New York, Lisandro Pérez

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Sugar, cigars, and revolution, the making of Cuban New York, Lisandro Pérez

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sugar, cigars, and revolution

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1201179078

Responsibility statement

Lisandro Pérez

Sub title

the making of Cuban New York

Summary

More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today's prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest community of Latin Americans in the nineteenth-century Northeast. This book brings this community to vivid life, tracing its formation and how it was shaped by both the sugar trade and the long struggle for independence from Spain. New York City's refineries bought vast quantities of raw sugar from Cuba, ultimately creating an important center of commerce for Cuban émigrés as the island tumbled into the tumultuous decades that would close out the century and define Cuban nationhood and identity

Table Of Contents

Introduction: New York stories -- Part I. Sugar: 1823-1868 -- The port -- Exiles, sojourners, and annexationists -- An emerging community and a rising activism -- Part II. War: 1868-1895 -- War and exodus -- Cuban New York in the 1870s -- Waging a war in Cuba ... and in New York -- The aftermath of war and a changed community -- José Martí, New Yorker -- Epilogue: "Martí should not have died."

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Making of Cuban New York

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