Cuban Émigrés and Independence in the Nineteenth Century Gulf World
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781469631981
Subjects: Caribbean area, history; Cuba, history; Cubans; Political refugees
Description: "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"--