Sartorius Ever Faithful

Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7707-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sartorius, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction. A Faithful Account of Colonial Racial Politics 1

1. Belonging to an Empire: Race and Rights 21

2. Suspicious Affinities: Loyal Subjectivity and the Paternalist Public 52

3. The Will to Freedom: Spanish Allegiances in the Ten Years' War 94

4. Publicizing Loyalty: Race and the Post-Zanjón Public Sphere 128

5. "Long Live Spain! Death to Autonomy!": Liberalism and Slave Emancipation 158

6. The Price of Integrity: Limited Loyalties in Revolution 187

Conclusion. Subject Citizens and the Tragedy of Loyalty 217

Notes 227

Bibliography 271

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Sartorius is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland.