Ever faithful : race, loyalty, and the ends of empire in Spanish Cuba / David Sartorius.

Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this groundbreaking history, David Sartorius explores the relationship between...

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Main Author: Sartorius, David A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A faithful account of colonial racial politics
  • Belonging to an empire : race and rights
  • Suspicious affinities : loyal subjectivity and the paternalist public
  • The will to freedom : Spanish allegiances in the Ten Years' War
  • Publicizing loyalty : race and the post-Zanjón public sphere
  • "Long live Spain! death to autonomy!" Liberalism and slave emancipation
  • The price of integrity : limited loyalties in revolution
  • Conclusion : Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.