The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and HistoriographyA century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years of American historical writing. Offering both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war informed by Cuban sources, Perez explores the assumptions that have shaped our understanding of the "Spanish-American War--a construct, he argues, that denies the Cubans' participation in their own struggle for liberation from Spanish rule.
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Contents
CHAPTER 1 On Context and Condition | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 Intervention and Intent | 23 |
CHAPTER 3 Meaning of the Maine | 57 |
CHAPTER 4 Constructing the Cuban Absence | 81 |
From Memory to Consciousness | 108 |
Notes | 135 |
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