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Record Nr.

UNINA9910133952003321

Autore

Perez Louis A.

Titolo

Cuba Between Empires, 1878-1902

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998

ISBN

0-8229-7197-6

0-585-09105-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (511 pages)

Collana

Pitt Latin American Series

Disciplina

972.91/06

Soggetti

Cuba History 1878-1895

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Fateful Interlude -- Chapter 2. From Reconciliation to Reconcentration -- Chapter 3. Intuitive Certainty -- Chapter 4. Exhaustion of the Passions -- Chapter 5. An Imperfect Consensus -- Chapter 6. Convergence and Divergence in Cuban Separatism -- Chapter 7. Rebellion of the Loyal -- Chapter 8. The Passing of Spanish Sovereignty -- Chapter 9. Shades of a Shadow -- Chapter 10. The Infelicitous Alliance -- Chapter 11. From Allies to Adversaries -- Chapter 12. Peace Without Victory -- Chapter 13. Dissent and Dissolution -- Chapter 14. Purpose Without Policy -- Chapter 15. Collaboration and Conflict -- Chapter 16. The Electoral Imperative -- Chapter 17. From Amendment to Appendix -- Chapter 18. The Construction of a Colonial Army -- Chapter 19. Sugar, Reciprocity, and the Reconstruction of the Colonial Economy -- Chapter 20. A General Understanding -- Chapter 21. Postscript to the Colony-Prologue to the Republic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.