Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. P

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Colonial Reckoning by Louis A. Pérez, Jr., Louis A. Pérez Louis A. Pérez Jr. examines Cubas Wars for Independence in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing specifically on those everyday black, white, and creole Cubans who remained loyal to Spain. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Colonial Reckoning Louis A. Perez 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, Perez 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. Perez 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, Perez 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. Author Biography Louis A. Pérez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of numerous books, most recently, Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba. Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Rethinking the Paradigms of National Formation 1 1. Something to Fear 11 2. Half Defeated upon Arrival 40 3. To Confront Impossible Odds 97 4. Neither Victor nor Vanquished: Reckoning Deferred 169 Notes 195 Index 265 Review "A work of deep reflection and wide research, Colonial Reckoning proposes a new framework for understanding the nineteenth-century Cuban wars for independence. Louis A. Pérez Jr. demonstrates that these were in many ways civil wars, during which Spain recruited tens of thousands of Cubans to fight against the insurrection and for the maintenance of Spanish sovereignty. Pérez argues that there emerged after independence a fractured nationality in which a seemingly disloyal portion of the population was figuratively written out of membership in the nation. That habit of mind, he suggests, at times emerges in different forms in Cuba today." -- Rebecca J. Scott, author of * Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery *"Louis A. Pérez Jr. accomplishes what few authors do when covering such well-known topics as Cuban independence: he takes a story we know well and not only provides a new interpretation depth of analysis but reframes it to show that independence was as much a civil war to the death between Cubans as it was a call for Cuba Libre." -- Matt D. Childs, author of * The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery *"An accomplished historian, Pérez shows that Cubas heroic mythology of national liberation often omits the messy fact that many Cubans—white and Black—aligned with the colonialists, first from Spain and later from the United States." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *"Pérez successfully complicates long-held and relatively unquestioned historiographical assumptions while foregrounding a series of frequently overlooked factors: the precarious balance of political, economic and social forces undergirding Spains authority over Cuba . . . . Pérez book, in short, manages to enrich a somewhat petrified historical narrative, adding subtlety and ambiguity to an inherited, mythical tale of heroes and villains drawn mostly in black and white." -- Alejandro Quintero Mächler * ReVista * Details ISBN1478032006 Publisher Duke University Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781478032007 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 20 illustrations AU Release Date 2023-12-22 NZ Release Date 2023-12-22 UK Release Date 2023-12-22 Author Louis A. Pérez Alternative 9781478020684 DEWEY 972.9105 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 288 Publication Date 2023-12-19 US Release Date 2023-12-19 ISBN-10 1478032006 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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