Torn between empires: economy, society, and patterns of political thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840 - 1878

This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Viewing developments as they relate to the countries' common heritage of insularity, colonialism, and slavery...

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1. Verfasser: Martínez-Fernández, Luis 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens [u.a.] Univ. of Georgia Press 1994
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Zusammenfassung:This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Viewing developments as they relate to the countries' common heritage of insularity, colonialism, and slavery, Luis Martinez-Fernandez points out profound, underlying balance-of-power transformations during a time of ostensibly small change in the region's political status
The chronological scope of the book is marked initially by a symbolic date: the arrival in Havana of British consul and radical abolitionist David Turnbull in 1840, an event after which Britain's influence in the Hispanic Caribbean began to decline. The concluding date, 1878, marks two pivotal events - the end of the first Cuban war of independence from Spain and the end of the fifth and final term of Dominican Republic president Buenaventura Baez
In his coverage of the intervening decades Martinez-Fernandez ranges widely, discussing, for example, expansionism and filibustering; the Cuban "Africanization Scare"; the regional impact of the American Civil War; Haiti's repeated invasions of the Dominican Republic; the mechanization of the sugar industry; the polarization of Dominican politics; and the annexationist/reformist debate in Cuba
Beschreibung:IX, 333 S.
ISBN:0820315680

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