Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Figures
Tables
About the Contributors
Map of Cuba in 1850
Introduction
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 1: Transformations of the Cuban Plantation System and the Transatlantic Slave Trade during the Long Nineteenth Century
1 Introduction
2 The Early Growth Years, 1763–1816
3 The Plantation during the Ban on the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans, 1817–1867
4 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Tobacco in the Age of Cuba’s Second Slavery
1 Introduction
2 Cuban Tobacco and Second Slavery
3 Where Tobacco Expanded (Pinar del Río and the Vuelta Abajo)
4 How Tobacco Expanded (Vega Growth)
5 How Tobacco Expanded (Slavery Growth)
6 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3: A Racial Economy of Care: Incarceration, Labor Extraction, and Charity in Cuba’s Nineteenth-Century Slave Society
1 Introduction
2 Laboring for Charity
2.1 Enslaved and Captive Women under State Custody
3 The Racial Boundaries of Charity’s Wards
4 Disciplining Enslaved Labor on Behalf of White Beneficiaries
5 Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Archives and Libraries
Published Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Chapter 4: Breaking Chains: Resistance, Freedom, and the End of Chinese Indentured Labor in Cuba
1 Introduction
2 Chinese Indentured Labor in Cuba: Free Labor or Slavery?
3 Chinese Resistance in Its Many Forms
3.1 Everyday and Non-violent Forms of Resistance
3.2 Runaways and Free Chinese
3.3 Suicide
3.4 Violent Resistance and Rebellion
4 Conclusion: Explaining the End of Coolie Labor in Cuba
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5: Cuban Industrial Development and Its Heritage
1 Introduction
2 The Strengthening of Cuban Industry in the Nineteenth Century
3 Characteristics of Cuban Industrial Development
3.1 Aesthetic and Functional Values
3.2 Construction Styles and Technologies
3.3 The Patrimonial Focus of Industry
3.4 Potentials of Refunctionalization
3.5 Actions in Support of the Rescue and Preservation of Industrial Heritage
4 Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Dreams and Nightmares in the Planters’ Metropolis
1 Introduction
2 The Consideraciones del medio filósofo and the Program for a New Havana
3 Eighteenth-Century Havana and the Bourbon Imperial Order
4 Buen Gusto and the Politics of Looking
5 Baroque Aesthetic Disorder and the Impotent Gaze
6 Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
Chapter 7: Bullfights, Cockfights, and Other Evils: Origins of the “Cuba Threat” in U.S. Travel Literature
1 Introduction
2 Travel Narrative as Historical Text
3 Precursors to Conflict: Slavery and Annexation
4 Cuba by Scenes of Representation
4.1 Sabbath Laxity
4.2 Bullfighting
4.3 Cockfighting
4.4 Barred Windows
5 Dimensions of Conflict
6 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index