Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The colonial compact, 1500/1895
  • Revolutionary destruction of the colonial compact, 1895/98
  • U.S. power and Cuban middlemen, 1898/1917
  • The patrons' compact : "peace," "progress," and General Menocal, 1899/1919
  • Patrons, matrons, and resistance, 1899/1959
  • From patronage to populism and back again, 1919/26
  • Revolutionary rejection of the patrons' compact, 1926/33
  • The populist compact, 1934/59