Cuba's Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns

How northeastern Cuba became a hub of international solidarity and transnational movements in the 1920s and 1930s

This book explores how a region in Cuba that was widely known as a site of labor subjugation became a hub of international solidarity in the 1920s and 1930s. In the early twentieth century, United States agricultural companies like the United Fruit Company established sugar export operations in Cuba's Oriente Province, creating a zone of economic imperialism. These early multinat...