Colonial Reckoning
Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-century Cuba
Duke University Press · Print & ebook · December 19, 2023
In Colonial Reckoning Louis A.
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- Who it’s for
- Louis A. Pérez Jr. examines Cuban independence wars through the Cubans who fought for Spain.
- Genres
- Cuban History, Colonialism & Its Aftermath, Revolutionary History
- Published
- Duke University Press, December 19, 2023
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In Colonial Reckoning Louis A. Pérez Jr. examines Cuba’s 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 as paramilitary guerrillas alongside white elites.
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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 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 the fight 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.
Loyalists in Cuba
Louis A. Pérez Jr. examines Cuban independence wars through the Cubans who fought for Spain.
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- Cubans who remained loyal to Spain
- Competing visions of sovereignty and nation
Expect
- Paramilitary guerrillas alongside white elites
- A many-sided account of Cuban national formation
Where it sits
| Cuban History | 99% |
|---|---|
| Revolutionary History | 41% |
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 34% |
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Publisher categories
- Cuban History
- Caribbean & Latin American Studies
- Global Black Studies
- Authors
- Louis A Pérez Jr.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- December 19, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Cuban History