Cuba Between Empires, 1878-1902University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983 - 490 páginas Cuban independence arrived formally on May 20, 1902, with the raising of the Cuban flag in Havana - a properly orchestrated and orderly inauguration of the new republic. But something had gone awry. Republican reality fell far short of the separatist ideal. In an unusually powerful book that will appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist, Louis A. Perez, Jr., recounts the story of the critical years when Cuba won its independence from Spain only to fall in the American orbit. The last quarter of the nineteenth century found Cuba enmeshed in a complicated colonial environment, tied to the declining Spanish empire yet economically dependent on the newly ascendant United States. Rebellion against Spain had involved two generations of Cubans in major but fruitless wars. By careful examination of the social and economic changes occurring in Cuba, and of the political content of the separatist movement, the author argues that the successful insurrection of 1895-98 was not simply the last of the New World rebellions against European colonialism. It was the first of a genre that would become increasingly familiar in the twentieth century: a guerrilla war of national liberation aspiring to the transformation of society. The third player in the drama was the United States. For almost a century, the United States had pursuedthe acquistion of Cuba. Stepping in when Spain was defeated, the Americans occupied Cuba ostensibly to prepare it for independence but instead deliberately created institutions that restored the social hierarchy and guaranteed political and economic dependence. It was not the last time the U.S. intervention would thwart the Cuban revolutionary impulse. |
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... a great deal about Cuba , but I am as far as ever from seeing the place when we can get in . —Grover Cleveland to Richard Olney , July 1896 I December 7 , 1896. Curious coincidence , the events 3 Intuitive Certainty 3: Intuitive Certainty.
... Cleveland dwelled at length on the conflict in Cuba— almost a quarter of the annual message centered on what the ... Cleveland's message , especially mindful of those sections of the presidential text outlining the White House response ...
... Cleveland , " the ability of Spain to cope with them has visibly and greatly decreased . She is straining every nerve to stamp out the insurrection within the next few months . For what obvious reason ? Because she is almost at the end ...
... Cleveland administration , the legislative branch , responding to and motivated by public opinion , threatened to challenge the White House for the initiative and direction of American policy approaches to the conflict . For Cleveland ...
... Cleveland adhered steadfastly to existing policy procedures in Cuba . The White House re- jected outright the congressional demand for recognition of belligerency as an infringement of the president's prerogative in foreign policy.31 By ...
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An Imperfect Consensus | 89 |
Convergence and Divergence in Cuban Separatism | 109 |
Rebellion of the Loyal | 139 |
The Passing of Spanish Sovereignty | 165 |
Purpose Without Policy | 269 |
Collaboration and Conflict | 283 |
The Electoral Imperative | 303 |
From Amendment to Appendix | 315 |
The Construction of a Colonial Army | 329 |
Sugar Reciprocity and the Reconstruction of the Colonial Economy | 345 |
A General Understanding | 367 |
Postscript to the ColonyPrologue to the Republic | 375 |
Shades of a Shadow | 179 |
The Infelicitous Alliance | 195 |
From Allies to Adversaries | 211 |
Peace Without Victory | 229 |
Dissent and Dissolution | 249 |
Notes | 389 |
Bibliography | 449 |
Index | 481 |