The structure of Cuban history : meanings and purpose of the past / Louis A. Pérez, Jr.

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Pérez, Louis A., Jr, 1943-

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TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469612652
1469612658
9781469608860
1469608863

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Structure of Cuban history.DDC classification:

972.91 23

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F1760 .P473 2013eb

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Contents:

All this we prefer -- Intimations of nationality -- Transformation in times of transition -- Nation in waiting -- Anticipation of the past -- History with a purpose.

Summary: In this contemplative history of Cuba, the author argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans, it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement - of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future - contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. With this book, the author discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.Summary: Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

All this we prefer -- Intimations of nationality -- Transformation in times of transition -- Nation in waiting -- Anticipation of the past -- History with a purpose.

In this contemplative history of Cuba, the author argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans, it seemed almost as if the new nation had been overtaken by another country's history. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement - of the promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future - contributed to the development in the early republic of a political culture shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of 1959 as the triumph of history. With this book, the author discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.