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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... thousands of acres of sugar cane to rot in the fields this season as it would cost more to cut , grind , pack , and send it to market than could be realized for the manufactured article . " " Mercantile credit may be said to be dead ...
... thousand head in 1846 to seventy - eight thousand in 1894. There were 50 percent more hogs in 1827 than in 1894 ; a ratio of three pigs per person in 1827 had changed by 1894 to three persons per pig.47 Cuban dependency on imported ...
... thousand troops were mobilized in fruitless operations in the southern part of Havana province . 55 By the 1890s , bandits in the inte- rior ranged over the countryside virtually at will and without serious or sustained obstruction from ...
... thousand orientales had taken to the field . 10 V Insurgent successes in Oriente could not offset the dismal separatist prospects elsewhere on the island . Initial hopes that the rebellion would simultaneously take hold on both sides of ...
... thousands of sugar workers completing the cycle of semiannual employ- ment found the call to arms in behalf of Cuba Libre an ... thousand officers and men , equipped with new arms , supplies , and addi- tional ships to strengthen coastal ...
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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 |