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 espanola -- Affirming americanismo: desespanolizacion 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 ... 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.
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