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Synopsis
In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez 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, Perez discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the character of Cuban nationality.
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"This book is a masterpiece and deserves to be read, not just by those working in the field of Cuban studies, but more widely, by those working on manifestations of post-colonial nationalism that have emerged anywhere in the world, and also by students of ideology."--Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham
About the Author
Louis A. Perez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Academia de la Historia de Cuba, Perez is author, most recently, of Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos.
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- PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1469606925
- ISBN 13 9781469606927
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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