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In Colonial Reckoning Louis A. Perez 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, Perez 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. 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 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 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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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

17 novembre 2023

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781478027584

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

20 Mo

COLONIAL RECKONING

Duke Unîversîty Press Durham and London 2023

LOUIS A. PÉREZ JR. RaceandRevolutioninNineteenthCenturyCuba COLONIALRECKONING

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Lîbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data Names: Pérez, Louîs A., Jr., [date] author. Tîte: Coonîa reckonîng : race and revoutîon în nîneteenth-century Cuba / Louîs A. Pérez, Jr. Other tîtes: Race and revoutîon în nîneteenth-century Cuba Descrîptîon: Durham : Duke Unîversîty Press, 2023. | Incudes îndex. Identîﬁers:lccn20230054 (prînt) lccn202300542 (ebook) isbn978478032007 (paperback) isbn978478020684 (hardcover) isbn978478027584 (ebook) Subjects:lcsh: Natîonaîsm—Cuba—Hîstory. | Spanîsh-Amerîcan War, 898. | Cuba—Hîstory—80–899. | Cuba—Hîstory—Revoutîon, 895–898. | Cuba—Reatîons—Spaîn. | Spaîn—Reatîons—Cuba. |bisac:history/Carîbbean & West Indîes / Cuba |social science/ Back Studîes (Goba) Cassîﬁcatîon:lcc f783 .p38 2023 (prînt) |lcc f783 (ebook) |ddc972.9/05—dc23/eng /20230607 lcrecord avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/20230054 lcebook record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/202300542

Cover art: Wîîam Aen Rogers (854–93),Battle o Desmayo, Spanish American War, 899. Courtesy o Superstock / Aamy Stock Photo.

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Contents

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Introductîon: Rethînkîng the Paradîgms o Natîona Formatîon

Somethîng to Fear

Ha Deeated upon Arrîva

To Conront Impossîbe Odds

Neîther Vîctor nor Vanquîshed: Reckonîng Deerred

Notes Index

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Acknowledgments

It îs not oten that a book a ong tîme în the wrîtîng preserves the memory o îts orîgîns. Thîs îs such a book. It was ﬁrst îmagîned în 2002, în the Estadîo Latînoamerîcano în Havana, durîng a baseba game between the host team Los Industrîaes agaînst the vîsîtîng Cîenuegos Eeantes, as the home-team supporters hecked the ans rootîng or the vîsîtîng Cîenuegos cub, hurîng at them verba epîthets, “¡Guerrilla!” How odd. . . . A book competed over the span o a score o years cannot but have accrued many debts o gratîtude. I owe much—actuay, amost everythîng—to the archî-vîsts, îbrarîans, and curators o the great reposîtorîes o records who dîscharge the soemn custodîa responsîbîîty o the organîzatîon, maîntenance, and preservatîon o manuscrîpt coectîons, records, books, perîodîcas, newspapers, photographs, and maps. In Cuba, a very specîa apprecîatîon îs extended or the support and coabora-tîon o the stafs who oten work under execrabe condîtîons to preserve the stuf opatrimonio nacional, the women and men o the Archîvo Nacîona de Cuba, the Instîtuto de Lîteratura y Lîngüístîca “José Antonîo Portuondo Vador,” the Instîtuto de Hîstorîa de Cuba, the Instîtuto Cubano de Investîgacîón Cutura “Juan Marîneo,” and the Unîón de Escrîtores y Artîstas de Cuba. I am especîay grateu to the stafs o the Bîbîoteca Nacîona “José Martí” or theîr assîstance în ocatîng some o the îmages that appear throughout the book, încudîng many o the photographs and the edîtorîa cartoons. Many o the atter revea the raw racîsm wîth whîch the coonîa regîme sought to sustaîn îts authorîty and suggest too the ways that the premîse o racîa anîmus însînuated îtse înto the popuar îmagînatîon. In the Unîted States, I have been a beneﬁcîary o the coaboratîve dîsposîtîon o the stafs o the Natîona Archîves and the Lîbrary o Congress în Washîngton, DC. Access to the specîa coec-tîons and manuscrîpt dîvîsîons o severa unîversîty îbrarîes has been îndîspensabe, încudîng the Cuban Herîtage Coectîon at the Unîversîty o Mîamî, the Specîa and

Area Studîes Coectîons at the Unîversîty o Forîda, the Amerîcan Herîtage Coec-tîon at the Unîversîty o Wyomîng, and ast—but aways ﬁrst—Wîson Lîbrary and Davîs Lîbrary at the Unîversîty o North Caroîna at Chape Hî, and especîay the înterîbrary oan staf at Davîs. And the egîon o debts to rîends and coeagues . . . over the years they extended uncondîtîona orbearance to îsten to the hum—and sometîmes to the drone—o a work în progress, the ever-changîng avenues o înquîry, and the new dîrectîons and the new redîrectîons, over and over agaîn, sometîmes în conversatîon, oten by way o correspondence, and occasîonay by way o readîng and rereadîng mutîpe drats, oten o the same chapters. The gîve-and-take, the cash o arguments, and the convergence o agreements—a o ît—contrîbuted mîghtîy to what may be good on the pages that oow. A specîa thanks to José Abreu Cardet, María de Carmen Barcîa, Cecîîa Bermúdez García, Reînado Funes Monzote, Nurîa Gregorî Torada, the ate Jorge Ibarra, Rebecca J. Scott, Eduardo Torres-Cuevas, José Vega Suño, José Vîera Lînares, Oscar Zanettî, and especîay to the ate Francîsco Pérez Guzmán, în whose company I shared the experîence o the Los Industrîaes–Cîenuegos baseba game. A specîa acknowedgment o gratîtude to Beatrîz Rîekoh Muñîz, who read drats o chapters în varîous stages o (în)competîon—a to be made better and aways so much. I ben-eﬁted greaty rom the wîsdom o my rîend and coeague Joseph Gatthaar, whose knowedge o mîîtary hîstory served to înorm many o my perspectîves on the nature o warare în the nîneteenth century. I am îndebted to Karen Fîsher or a careu read-îng o the competed manuscrîpt—and or a the împrovements that such a careu readîng produced. I wîsh aso to convey my thanks to Teresa Chapa, Brîanna Gîmore, and Bonnîe Lucero or tîmey assîstance and requent împrovîsed coaboratîons. I cannot overstate my apprecîatîon or the encouragement and enthusîasm wîth whîch Gîsea Fosado, edîtorîa dîrector at Duke Unîversîty Press, embraced thîs proj-ect. Her engagement wîth the îdeas o thîs book made or a perecty deîghtu coaboratîon. A partîcuar note o gratîtude to members o the staf o Duke Unî-versîty Press or theîr thoughtuness and hepu assîstance durîng the ﬁna stages o productîon: a specîa acknowedgment o apprecîatîon to Aejandra Mejía, Ihsan Tayor, Aîmee Harrîson, and Emîy Estee. Deborah M. Weîssman was perhaps the ﬁrst person to earn o my puzzement over the Cîenuegos–Los Industrîaes baseba game. Her support sustaîned the years o înquîry that oowed, rom the ast pîtch at the Estadîo Latînoamerîcano to the ﬁrst pîtch to Duke Unîversîty Press. And to end to where amost everythîng begîns: to express an endurîngcariñoand aprecioto Fîde Requeîjo and Gadys Mare García, who, aas, were o îtte assîstance

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în unpackîng the meanîng o the taunts hured at the ans o the Cîenuegos Eeantes but who în every other regard provîded însîght înto everythîng ese în Cuba. I am the grateu beneﬁcîary o theîr unstîntîng generosîty and unaîîng rîendshîp or the better part o the ast orty years.

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