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Guantanamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution

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Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantanamo 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 Guantanamo 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 analyzes how the Cold War and the Cuban revolution made the naval base a place devoid of law and accountability. The result is a narrative filled with danger, intrigue, and exploitation throughout the twentieth century. Opening a new window onto the history of U.S. imperialism in the Caribbean and labor history in the region, her book tells how events in Guantanamo and the base created an ominous precedent likely to inform the functioning of U.S. military bases around the world.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Between Guantanamo 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: Guantanamo Civil Registry, 1921-1958 Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

Author Biography

Jana K. Lipman is Assistant Professor of History at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn.

Author Biography:

Jana K. Lipman is Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University.
Release date Australia
December 2nd, 2008
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
16 b-w photographs, 2 maps, 2 tables
Pages
344
Dimensions
152x229x20
ISBN-13
9780520255401
Product ID
2699875

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