The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past

by Louis A. Pérez Jr.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469606925
• ISBN13: 9781469606927
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"