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| Author(s): | Regal Gómez, Nancy |
| Title: | Una historia de tierra adentro : la evolución socioeconómica de Báez, Cuba, desde el siglo XVIII hasta la primera mitad del siglo XX |
| Physical Description: | viii, 367 leaves, bound. |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Description: | Department: History. UMI cat no. 3305261 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2008. |
| Bookmark as: | http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18500 |
| Full Text (ProQuest): | /ac/proxit.jsp?url=http://gateway.proquest.com/ope... |
| Abstract: | This thesis analyzes the socioeconomic evolution of Baez---a small rural town located in the interior of the central region of Cuba---from the 18th century through the mid 20th century. It explores how this locality was formed and transformed through time by changes occurring in the Colony (15th--19th centuries) and in the Republic (1902--1959), and by international forces---political and economic---which were beyond the control of local populations. Also, this is a study about a non-sugar and Spanish immigrant zone of mixed farming, tobacco and cattle-raising production for the internal market. Thus, its historical evolution evolves outside the great themes of Cuban historiography---sugar, slavery, nationalism and independence wars in the 19th century, and the socialist revolution in the 20th century, among others. But its study is particularly appropriate for an island where contradictory histories and the resulting social structure coexisted in a relative small area. Yet, the locality was inhabited by all of the human actors which forged the Cuban nation and who have not found their way into the history books: small subsistence farmers, cattle ranchers, tobacco growers, food-crop producers who sold to domestic markets, people of all races and legal statuses, urbanized workers, maids and other domestic workers. |
| Collection(s): | Doctoral Dissertations |
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