Intimations of Modernity: Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

by Louis A. Paerez and Louis A. Perez

Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence. Contributing to the cultural history of capitalism in Latin America, Perez argues that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146963130X
• ISBN13: 9781469631301
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.5"