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Colonial Reckoning : Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Colonial Reckoning : Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
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Author(s): Pérez, Louis A., Jr.
ISBN No.: 9781478032007
Pages: 288
Year: 202312
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 38.57
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"In Colonial Reckoning Louis A. Pérez Jr. examines Cubas Wars for Independence in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing specifically on those Cubans who remained loyal to Spain. Drawing on newspaper articles, personal letters, military battle reports, government commissions, consular reports, literature, and other materials, Pérez shows how everyday black, white, and creole Cubans defended the Spanish empire alongside the white elites as paramilitary guerrillas. These loyalist Cubans helped the Spanish fight a separatist insurgency composed of a similarly diverse population of Cubans. Pérez demonstrates that these wars were so deadly and drawn out precisely because Cubans fought on both sides, each holding myriad competing visions of sovereignty and the contested meanings of nation. Complicating mythical and historiographical narratives that Cuban national liberation was a struggle waged between Cubans of color and white elites beholden to Spain, Pérez shows that it consisted of a great number of factions with unique and evolving motivations. In so doing, he interrogates anew the multifaceted social dimensions and multiple political aspects of the complex drama of Cuban national formation"--.



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