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In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. 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. In this capstone book, Pérez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.
Editions of The Structure of Cuban History
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- ISBN 9781469606927
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469626598
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- ISBN 9798893130669
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- ISBN 9781469612652
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- ISBN 9798890844880
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In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. 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. In this capstone book, Pérez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.
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In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. 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. In this capstone book, Pérez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.
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History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
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How long is The Structure of Cuban History and how many pages does it have?
The Structure of Cuban History has 352 page(s)
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Louis A. Pérez
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The Structure of Cuban History is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469606927) and paperback(ISBN 9781469626598) and ebook(ISBN 9798893130669) and ebook(ISBN 9781469612652) and ebook(ISBN 9798890844880) and ebook(ISBN 9781469608860)
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