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. Memory of thwarted independence and aggrievement - of the
promise of sovereignty ever receding into the future - contributed
to the development in the early republic of a political culture
shaped by aspirations to fulfill the nineteenth-century promise of
liberation, and it was central to the claim of the revolution of
1959 as the triumph of history. In this capstone book, Perez
discerns in the Cuban past the promise that decisively shaped the
character of Cuban nationality.
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