Guantánamo : a Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution.

By:

Lipman, Jana K

Material type: Text

TextSeries: American crossroadsPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520942370
052094237X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Guantánamo : A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution.DDC classification:

359.7097291/67 359.709729167

LOC classification:

VA68.G8 L57 2009

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Between Guantánamo and GTMO; Prologue: Regional Politics, 1898, and the Platt Amendment; 1 The Case of Kid Chicle: Military Expansion and Labor Competition, 1939-1945; 2 "We Are Real Democrats": Legal Debates and Cold War Unionism before Castro, 1940-1954; 3 Good Neighbors, Good Revolutionaries, 1940-1958; 4 A "Ticklish" Position: Revolution, Loyalty, and Crisis, 1959-1964; 5 Contract Workers, Exiles, and Commuters: Neocolonial and Postmodern Labor Arrangements; Epilogue: Post 9/11: Empire and Labor Redux.

Appendix: Guantánamo Civil Registry, 1921-1958Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Summary: Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors-it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban relations from a new perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Drawing from rich oral histories and little-explored Cuban archives.

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Appendix: Guantánamo Civil Registry, 1921-1958Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors-it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.-Cuban relations from a new perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Drawing from rich oral histories and little-explored Cuban archives.