The Structure of Cuban History

Meanings and Purpose of the Past

Bibliographic Data

ID19925546
AuthorsLouis A Pérez (0000-0001-9684-4256, corresponding author), Louis A Pérez Jr
Year2013
Pages336
Publication date2013-09-16
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe structure of Cuban history (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/9781469608860_perez
OpenAlexW4205180555
Open LibraryOL31131474M
ISBN9781469608860
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This expansive and contemplative history of Cuba 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. This book discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality

Ancient history · Character (mathematics) · Contemplation · Economic history · Expansive · Ideal (ethics) · Independence (probability theory) · Nationality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Theology · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Collective memory · Cuba · Cuban National characteristics · Influence · Memory · National characteristics · Political aspects · Revolution, 1895-1898

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