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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... Oriente village of Baragua , General Antonio Maceo assembled the 1,500 officers and men under his command to repudiate publicly the peace protocol and renew the insurgent commit- ment to armed struggle . In March 1878 a new provisional ...
... Oriente had been uncovered well before the exiled military chieftains had arrived in Cuba . The communication network among coordinating centers of separatist ac- tivity collapsed . Racism again shattered the separatist consensus when ...
... Oriente . Two years later , a short - lived rebellion under Generals Limbano Sanchez and Panchin Varona met a similar fate . Instead of healing the breaches among contending expatriate factions , The Fateful Interlude 13.
... Oriente and Camagüey had remained impervious to the modernizing cur- rents that had transformed the west into the bastion of the sugar latifun- dia . Sugar estates in the east , by comparison , were private family enter- prises ...
... Oriente survived untouched : 31 Other Small Coffee Tobacco Livestock Ranches Date Ingenios Farms Farms Farms and Farms 1862 1887 1,362 782 11,550 8,834 34,546 1,191 192 4,515 3,172 17,906 Those estates fortunate enough to escape the ...
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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 |