Title Cuban émigrés and independence in the nineteenth century Gulf world / Dalia Antonia Muller, the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) Series Envisioning Cuba Envisioning Cuba. Contents Introduction: A case apart? -- Nineteenth-century Cuban migrants in the Gulf world -- Cuban communities in late nineteenth-century Mexico -- Cuban revolutionary politics in diaspora -- Internationalizing Cuba libre: Cuban insurgent diplomacy and the building of transnational solidarities -- Spanish immigrants, the Mexican state, and the fight for Cuba española -- Affirming americanismo: desespañolización and the defense of America -- Epilogue: the legacies of Cuban-Mexican solidarities Summary During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically active Cuban diaspora around the Gulf of Mexico. Offering a new transnational vantage on Cuba's struggle for nationhood, Muller traces the stories of three hundred of these Cuban emigres and explores the impact of their lives of exile, service to the revolution and independence, and circum-Caribbean solidarities. While not large in number, the emigres excelled at community building, and their effectiveness in disseminating their political views across borders intensified their influence and inspired strong nationalistic sentiments across Latin America. Revealing that emigres'efforts were key to a Cuban Revolutionary Party program for courting Mexican popular and diplomatic support, Muller shows how the relationship also benefited Mexican causes. Cuban revolutionary aspirations resonated with Mexican students, journalists, and others alarmed by the violation of constitutional rights and the increasing conservatism of the Porfirio Diaz regime. Finally, Muller follows emigres'return to Cuba after the Spanish-American War, their lives in the new republic ineluctably shaped by their sojourn in Mexico "During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban émigrés, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico ... Mexico was a key site ... from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically active Cuban diaspora around the Gulf of Mexico"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cubans -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century Cubans -- Political activity -- Mexico -- History -- 19th century Political refugees -- Mexico Political refugees -- Cuba HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Cubans Cubans -- Political activity Political refugees SUBJECT Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1895-1898. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034571 Cuba -- History -- 1810-1899. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034564 Caribbean Area -- History -- 1810-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001304 Subject Caribbean Area Cuba Mexico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469631998 1469631997 9781469632001 1469632004

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