Search Results for annexationist

... a void in the historiography of the annexationist movement in Puerto Rico, it will surely be welcomed as the island’s leaders and the U.S. Congress are discussing a plebiscite on the political status question, to be held possibly in 1991. Meléndez not only provides the most extensive and up-to-date...

... annexationist sentiments, see La Revolución , 1869-1870; Eladio Aguilera Rojas, Francisco Vicente Aguilera y la revolución de Cuba , 2 vols. (Havana, 1909), I, 134; Morales y Morales, Hombres del 68 , p. 102; José Ignacio Rodríguez, La vida del Dr. José Manuel Mestre (Havana, 1909), pp. 96-97, 125-127, 157...

... materials, while for Cuba archival material is employed to good advantage, and the bibliography is superb. The volume opens with an assessment of the historiography treating the annexationist movements in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba. It goes on to analyze Cuban economic and social concerns, geographic...

... Guerra de los Diez Años describes the effect of Spanish policies after 1825, and the relationship to such factors as the decline of the coffee industry, slavery, and the disappearance of the annexationist “fantasy.” Guerra stated that the leaders of the revolution came from the areas where the Negro...

... and then Havana. Later he served in the vice-royalty of Peru and the captaincy-general of Chile, and his services to the crown brought him a brigadier’s rank and appointment as interim captain-general of Guatemala by 1821. There he was a partisan of separatism from the homeland and an annexationist...

... church in Cuba vis-à-vis nationalist and annexationist movements, while Daniele Pompejano examines the role of the church in the consolidation of conservative power in nationalist Guatemala. Stemming from a 1987 conference in Szeged, Hungary, this volume includes 20 papers relating to the theme...

... range of Mexico’s politicians. The picture that emerges is not flattering. While the nation was at war, monarchists, annexationists, supporters of Santa Anna’s dictatorial ambitions, republicans of various hues, conservatives, puros , moderados , and diverse other factions plotted and maneuvered...

..., we know quite a bit more about annexationist plans by German imperialism against southern Brazil than the author believes. It is a pity, therefore, that the following doctoral thesis should have escaped his attention: Jürgen Hell, “Die Politik des Deutschen Reiches zur Verwandlung der drei...

... and were a powerful factor in Madrid politics. Finally, they were Spain’s major ally against the United States and its annexationist drives. Despite a campaign that lasted from before the first treaty of 1817 to the final antitrade act of 1866, however, Spain continually and successfully frustrated British...

.... Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 200 pp. Cloth , $60.95 . Paper , $23.95 . Copyright 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Cuba began the second half of the nineteenth century chafing under Spanish rule and as the prize target of British abolitionists and U.S. annexationists...

... these settlements were the most enduring. Neagle situates the American colonization of the Isle of Pines in the broader annexationist movement that characterized US expansionism from the 1840s on, pointing out similarities and differences with the annexation of Hawaii, American migration to Mexico up to 1910...

... market; and the promotion of Tomás Estrada Palma, a naturalized United States citizen and a fervent annexationist, as Cuba’s first president. Pérez also shows how the United States received the cooperation of the Cuban elites who relied on the North American giant to help them maintain their positions...

... to Cuba as well the conditions that led to the demise of the foreign colonies. In concert, it explores the rise and fall of the early-twentieth-century movement supporting United States annexation of Cuba. The annexationist movement is generally considered to be a nineteenth-century phenomenon. I argue...

... of Cuban scholars since in­ dependence to look askance at the annexationists, reformists, and autonomists, but they are now coming to regard them as patriots who laid the foundation of Cuban nationalism; of this view the works under review are examples. The volume by Dr. Horrego was designed to trace...

... Houston, and others, but he makes it clear that various individuals and groups quickly launched a movement for annexation. Opposition rallied around the issues of morality, slavery, war, and the depression, and the question remained moot until 1840 when the pro-annexationists mounted a new campaign...

..., according to the Gaceta , was “to foment disorders and stir up political questions in order that later the intrigues of the annexationists, of whom Squier is an agent and active collaborator, will find the ground prepared.” 39 El Salvador echoed this theme when it rejected the overtures of Squier...

..., and then the threat of US annexation. At the height of the war against the Spanish, covert markets of foodstuffs and munitions from Haiti flourished. 23 With no pause, residents retrained their guns to new targets at the close of the decade, in opposition to annexationist national authorities in both capitals...

... sources of greater subtlety, generality, and chronological scope. From the Mexican perspective, relations with the United States in the years before 1853 frequently turned on the balance between annexationist pressures and commercial exclusion. In the early national period, the Mexican response...

... impossible, for even these beneficiaries of United States capital to accept the annexationist implications of such a situation. They attempted, through a moderate economic nationalism (which Machado in his first term tried vainly to reflect), to gain some control over the pace and direction of United States...

.... The US approach to relations with the Dominican Republic had from the beginning a strong military component, a tendency common to US foreign relations in this era of filibusters and hopeful annexationists. From citizen attempts to claim Caribbean islands, which individuals believed would eventually...