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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... Guerra Grande , " was the longest sustained separatist effort . " La Guerra Chiquita " ( 1879-1880 ) was among the shortest . They both failed . The war of 1895 was different not only because it succeeded . It succeeded because it was ...
... Guerra Chiquita , " as the short - lived war of 1879-1880 became known , fell prey immediately to many of the mishaps and misfortunes that had frustrated the separatist effort a decade earlier . Veterans returned to Cuba only to find ...
... Guerra Chiquita . " Irresistible in his rhetoric , compelling in his prose , Marti quickly distinguished himself as the outstanding propagandist of the ill- starred separatist war of 1879-1880 . Even before the conflict had come to its ...
... Guerra Chiquita , " the moral fountainhead of separatist leadership . But he had a following enough of a following to justify his participation in preparations for a new war . In 1884 , Marti met in New York for the first time with the ...
... Guerra Chiquita . " Marti had scandalized the separatist estab- lishment that was linked to the Dominican general by ties of sentiment , politics , and shared experiences ; he had challenged the military monopoly on the separatist cause ...
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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 |