Cuban émigrés and independence in the nineteenth century Gulf world /Dalia Antonia Muller.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
- Envisioning Cuba .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
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Cubans--History--Mexico--19th century. Cubans--Political activity--History--Mexico--19th century. Political refugees--Mexico. Political refugees--Cuba.