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.…”