Ever faithful : race, loyalty, and the ends of empire in Spanish Cuba

Ever faithful race, loyalty, and the ends of empire in Spanish Cuba

Challenging assumptions that loyalty to the Spanish empire was the exclusive province of the white Cuban elite, this groundbreaking history brings attention to free and enslaved people of African descent who actively supported colonialism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sartorius, David A. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press 2013.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Black people > Race identity > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Cuba > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration > History > 19th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423269806719
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Subject citizens and the tragedy of loyalty.

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