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Author Pérez, Louis A., Jr., 1943-

Title The structure of Cuban history : meanings and purpose of the past / Louis A. Pérez, Jr
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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Series H. Eugene and Lilian Youngs Lehman series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
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
Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject National characteristics, Cuban.
Collective memory -- Cuba
Memory -- Political aspects -- Cuba
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- Cuba.
Collective memory
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Memory -- Political aspects
National characteristics, Cuban
SUBJECT Cuba -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034561
Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1895-1898 -- Influence
Subject Cuba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469612652
1469612658
9781469608860
1469608863