Cuban-Americans are beginning to understand their long-standing roots and traditions in the United States that reach back over a century prior to 1959. This is the first book-length confirmation of those beginnings, and its places the Cuban hero and revolutionary thinker José Martí within the political and socioeconomic realities of the Cuban communities in the United States of that era. By clarifying Martí’s relationship with those communities, Gerald E. Poyo provides a detailed portrait of the exile centers and their role in the growth and consolidation of nineteenth-century Cuban nationalism.
Poyo differentiates between the development of nationalist sentiment among liberal elites and popular groups and reveals how these distinct strains influenced the thought and conduct of Martí and the successful Cuban revolution of the 1890s.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Origins of Cuban Émigré Nationalism 1848–1868
- 2 Émigré Annexationism During the Ten Years War
- 3 The Émigré Nationalist Movement During the Ten Years War
- 4 Consolidation of the Nationalist Ideal The 1880s
- 5 Class, Race, and the Nationalist Movement 1870–1890
- 6 Popular Nationalism: The Insurrectionary Catalyst 1890–1895
- 7 The Road to Compromised Sovereignty 1895–1898
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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