Ciudad De Cigars

Author : Armando Mendez
Publisher : Florida Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886104013
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ciudad de Cigars written by Armando Mendez and published by Florida Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed historical description of the financiers and the highly skilled cigar-making workers of West Tampa and Ybor City, once the cigar production capital of the U.S.

Author : J. Bascome Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue book of Guatemala, 1915 written by J. Bascome Jones and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. Glenn Westfall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key West written by L. Glenn Westfall and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah McNamara
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469668173
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ybor City written by Sarah McNamara and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State. Located on the eastern edge of Tampa, Ybor City was a neighborhood of cigar workers and Caribbean revolutionaries who sought refuge against the shifting tides of international political turmoil during the early half of the twentieth century. Historian Sarah McNamara tells the story of immigrant and U.S.-born Latinas/os who organized strikes, marched against fascism, and criticized U.S. foreign policy. While many members of the immigrant generation maintained their dedication to progressive ideals for years to come, those who came of age in the wake of World War II distanced themselves from leftist politics amidst the Red Scare and the wrecking ball of urban renewal. This portrait of the political shifts that defined Ybor City highlights the underexplored role of women's leadership within movements for social and economic justice as it illustrates how people, places, and politics become who and what they are.

Author : Lisandro Pérez
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814767281
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution written by Lisandro Pérez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history Honorable Mention, 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on Latinos in the United States, given by La Casa de las Américas The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York. 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. New York became the primary destination for Cuban émigrés in search of an education, opportunity, wealth, to start a new life or forget an old one, to evade royal authority, plot a revolution, experience freedom, or to buy and sell goods. While many of their stories ended tragically, others were steeped in heroism and sacrifice, and still others in opportunism and mendacity. Lisandro Pérez beautifully weaves together all these stories, showing the rise of a vibrant and influential community. Historically rich and engrossing, Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution immerses the reader in the riveting drama of Cuban New York. Lisandro Pérez analyzes the major forces that shaped the community, but also tells the stories of individuals and families that made up the fabric of a little-known immigrant world that represents the origins of New York City's dynamic Latino presence.

Author : Mauricio Augusto Font
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739109687
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuban Counterpoints written by Mauricio Augusto Font and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the social sciences--notably anthropology--and law, religion and national identity, literature, and music. Presenting Ortiz's seminal thinking, including his profoundly influential concept of 'transculturation', Cuban Counterpoints explores the bold new perspectives that he brought to bear on Cuban society. Much of his most challenging and provocative thinking--which embraced simultaneity, conflict, inherent contradiction and hybridity--has remarkable relevance for current debates about Latin America's complex and evolving societies.

Author : Araceli Tinajero
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773676
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book El Lector written by Araceli Tinajero and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba to the present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would have been lost forever, creating a valuable archive for future historians. Through a close examination of journals, newspapers, and personal interviews, Tinajero relates how the reading was organized, how the readers and readings were selected, and how the process affected the relationship between workers and factory owners. Because of the reader, cigar factory workers were far more cultured and in touch with the political currents of the day than other workers. But it was not only the reading material, which provided political and literary information that yielded self-education, that influenced the workers; the act of being read to increased the discipline and timing of the artisan's job.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cigar Makers' Official Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonia Castañeda
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 1518505732
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing/Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage written by Antonia Castañeda and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tenth volume in the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, this collection of essays reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the project’s efforts to locate, identify, preserve and disseminate the literary contributions of US Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. Essays by scholars recalling the beginnings of the project cover a wide range of topics: origins, identity, archival research, institutional politics and pedagogy. From recollections about funding to personal reminiscences, the recovery of Jewish Hispanic heritage and the intellectual project of reframing American history and literature, these articles provide a fascinating look at twenty-five years of recovering the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States. An additional nineteen scholarly essays speak to specific efforts to recover an extremely diverse Latino literary heritage. Historians and literary critics who research Spanish, English and Sephardic texts examine a broad array of subjects, including colonialism, historical populations, exile and immigration. This far-reaching book is required reading for those studying US Latino history and literature.

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861892003
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smoke written by Sander L. Gilman and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether for pleasure or relief, whether as part of an elaborate religious ritual or merely to strike a pose. This is the first truly comprehensive history of smoking, describinbg all of its forms, practices, paraphernalia and materials, in cultures, locations and times throughout the world.