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Colonial Reckoning by Louis A Pérez Jr.

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Colonial Reckoning

Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-century Cuba

Louis A Pérez Jr.

Duke University Press · Print & ebook · December 19, 2023

Reading lane: Cuban History

In Colonial Reckoning Louis A.

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Good for readers who enjoy Cuban HistoryGood for fans of Latin American HistoryGood for readers who enjoy Cuban History and Caribbean & Latin American Studies.

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Authors
Louis A Pérez Jr.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
December 19, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Cuban History · Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Reading lane
Cuban History

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Publisher Categories

  • Cuban History

  • Caribbean & Latin American Studies

  • Global Black Studies

About This Book

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. Th...

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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. 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.

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