Book review: A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Blacks in the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Maps. Notes. Index. xiii, 262 p ;
The repressive measures implemented by Spanish authorities and conservative loyalists opposed to reformist and anticolonial forces in various regions of Cuba during the Ten Years' War are evaluated.;
The liberal pacts and hierarchies of rule that characterized the period during the Spanish-Cuban-Filipino-American War in 1898 are examined. The impending climax to the imperial transition in Cuba and Puerto Rico is discussed.;
Protectionism and resistance to abolitionism in Spain and the Antilles from 1854-1874 are discussed. After the demise of Antillean slavery in the 1880s, protectionists continued to demand Spanish preeminence in the colonial market.;
Examines the royalist forces that rose in defense of the colonial order in the southwestern region of New Granada, Colombia, a royalist stronghold where slaves and local Indians united with Spanish forces to fight against independence armies. Enslaved blacks and Indians were perceived by royalist elites as valuable allies, and for that reason elites were willing to negotiate and offer concessions to secure their loyalty.
