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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... months after Zan- jon , separatist leaders abroad completed plans for a new war . In early 1879 veteran General Calixto Garcia organized expatriate separatists into the Cuban Revolutionary Committee of New York and prepared for a new ...
... month , panic runs on the Banco Industrial and the Banco de Comercio forced both institutions to close . Two months later , the Banco Industrial went into liquidation . The crisis also affected provincial institutions . In March 1884 ...
... months of 1884 , business failures totaled $ 7 million . " The entire population is reduced ... to blank despondency and universal ruin , " the American consul reported in 1884.46 At the same time , the destruction of Cuban agriculture ...
... month earlier , " sides gener- ally with the Board of Planters . " Williams added prophetically ; This state of things shows that the present ties connecting Cuba with Spain are based more on historic custom than on economic necessity ...
... months later , an uprising in Las Villas ended with the quick capture of the principal insur- gent leaders.2 On February 24 , 1895 , therefore , reports of new distur- bances in the eastern interior failed to arouse in most habaneros ...
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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 |