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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... central and long - standing insurgent demand for the complete abolition of slavery . Many ranking insurgent chieftains denounced the Zanjon settlement . News of Zanjon reached General Ramon Leocadio Bonachea on field oper- ations in the ...
... central questions raised by the separatist war . The failure of insurgent arms and the subsequent depar- ture of the most ardent separatists did not quiet the central political issues . On the contrary , a decade of armed struggle had ...
... central tenets advanced by the separatists in arms . The inadmissibility of the separatist objectives , in- cluding the abolition of slavery and the independence of the island , to- gether with the singleness of purpose occasioned by ...
... central and reciprocally binding prem- ises . Representatives of both the Autonomist party and the Unión Con- stitucional rejected outright the means and the objectives of the insurgent separatists . An appeal to arms was as ...
... central to separatist sentiment after Zanjon as the belief that a new war of liberation was as imminent as it was inevitable.10 Nor were separatist expectations unfounded . Only months after Zan- jon , separatist leaders abroad ...
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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 |