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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... military occupation was not preparation for independence but the prelude to annexation . The vast resources and authority of the military government were mobilized for this end . The intervention in 1898 blocked the ascendancy of the ...
... military government , an annexationist naturalized American citizen was elected as Cuba's first president . V For decades the Cuban insurrection of 1895 has been viewed as simply the last in a series of New World rebellions in which ...
... military fortifications constructed along the Jucaro - Moron trocha , ( a fortified mili- tary trench ) , there falling prey to internal conflict and strife . A rebellion of such long duration , patently meager in insurgent successes ...
... military venture adequately.11 Military disarray in Cuba and civilian disunity abroad sealed the fate of " La Guerra Chiquita . " By August 1879 , only weeks after his arrival to Cuba , Calixto Garcia fell captive to Spanish military ...
... military tyrants of all species had preyed on their countries after independence . Days after his meeting with the generals , Marti denounced military preeminence within and army dominance over the separatist movement . The struggle for ...
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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 |