Havana : the making of Cuban culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Kapcia, Antoni. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005. |
| Description: | xv, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5750037 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Glossary of Abbreviations Used
- Glossary of Spanish Terms
- Introduction: The Havana Mosaic: Sweetness and Light
- Images of Havana
- Havana as Unique
- The Emergence of the City
- Theoretical Issues
- The Structure and Aim of the Book
- 1. The Colony (1550s-1902)
- Historical Overview
- Part I. The City in the Shadows - Pre-sugar Havana (1550s-1760s)
- Part II. The Boom City - Sugar and the Evolution of a Capital (1750s-1901)
- 2. The Republic (1902-1958)
- Historical Overview
- Part I. A Nation without a Capital and a Capital without a Nation (1902-33)
- Part II. Havana as the 'cultural problem' (1934-58)
- Part III. Bohemia Case Study
- Conclusions
- 3. The Revolution from 1959 to 1990
- Historical Overview
- Part I. Dark Days and Revolutionary Enlightenment (1959-71)
- Part II. The Grey Years - Conformity and Stagnation (the 1970s and 1980s)
- Part III. Case Study - Bohemia and Granma
- 4. The Revolution in a New Light?: Havana as a New Cultural Space
- Historical Overview
- The Periodo Especial and Havana
- The Evolution and Rediscovery of a Havana Culture
- Case Study - the Casas de Cultura
- Conclusion: Havana as Chiaroscuro
- Bibliography