{"product_id":"nature-culture-and-race-in-lee-sessions-9780300267945","title":"Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island's natural history and culture to redefine racial identity and reassert authority. These practices occurred in the face of challenges to their political power from Cubans of mixed race and as Cuba's dependence on sugar led to ecological and economic precarity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lee Sessions uses close visual analysis to investigate how white elites wielded power by manipulating material culture, placing in conversation for the first time the natural history museums, botanical gardens, and thousands of paintings, drawings, and prints produced in and about Cuba from 1820 to 1860. This important and novel book explores how groups used material culture to imagine their own future at a moment when racial and political dynamics were changing rapidly, while facing an ecological disaster of unimaginable scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Sessions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300267940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300267945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Lee Sessions","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489385337087,"sku":"9780300267945","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01b2e8f6-96eb-45aa-bbb9-158ec87a2dfb.jpg?v=1736953402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nature-culture-and-race-in-lee-sessions-9780300267945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}