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The Structure of Cuban History : Meanings and Purpose of the Past
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781469612652
- ISBN-10: 1469612658
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publish Date: June 2014
- Page Count: 353
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