Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century

by Kirwin R. Shaffer

This is the first critical, in-depth study of the anarchist movement in Cuba in the three decades after the republic's independence from Spain in 1898. Kirwin Shaffer shows that anarchists played a significant--until now little-known--role among Cuban leftists in shaping issues of health, education, immigration, the environment, and working-class internationalism. They also criticized the state of racial politics, cultural practices, and the conditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1629636371
• ISBN13: 9781629636375
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: PM Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"