Guantanamo A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution

Name: Guantanamo A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution
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ISBN: 9780520255401

ISBN-10: 0520255402

ISBN-13: 9780520255401

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jana K. Lipman

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Guantaacute;namo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantaacute;namo 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 Guantaacute;namo 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, Jana K. Lipman explores how the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution made the…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction: Between Guantanamo and GTMO


Prologue: Regional Politics, 1898, and the Platt Amendment



The Case of Kid Chicle: Military Expansion and Labor Competition, 1939-1945



"We Are Real Democrats": Legal Debates and Cold War Unionism before Castro, 1940-1954



Good Neighbors, Good Revolutionaries, 1940-1958



A "Ticklish" Position: Revolution, Loyalty, and Crisis, 1959-1964



Contract Workers, Exiles, and Commuters: Neocolonial and Postmodern Labor Arrangements


Epilogue: Post 9/11: Empire and Labor Redux



Guantanamo Civil Registry, 1921-1958


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index