Ever Faithful : Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba / David Sartorius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sartorius, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Other Title:

Ever Faithful

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4780-9131-2