American Interest in Cuba: 1848-1855Columbia University Press, 1948 - 323 pages |
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... island was not a colony but a province of Spain . Three deputies were elected to the Cortes at Madrid . They tried to obtain concessions in favor of the trade of the United States with Cuba , which now amounted to over half the trade of ...
... island was not a colony but a province of Spain . Three deputies were elected to the Cortes at Madrid . They tried to obtain concessions in favor of the trade of the United States with Cuba , which now amounted to over half the trade of ...
Page 38
... island's economy and labor system , the greater efficiency of Spanish tyranny in Cuba compared with the former colonies of the mainland , and at many critical moments the opposition of the United States , Great Britain . and France to ...
... island's economy and labor system , the greater efficiency of Spanish tyranny in Cuba compared with the former colonies of the mainland , and at many critical moments the opposition of the United States , Great Britain . and France to ...
Page 138
... Islands & near the Gulf of Mexico , and the deepest interest in whatever fortune awaited them ; they also could never be indifferent to anything touching the sovereignty of the Island of Cuba - chief of the Islands & key of that Gulf ...
... Islands & near the Gulf of Mexico , and the deepest interest in whatever fortune awaited them ; they also could never be indifferent to anything touching the sovereignty of the Island of Cuba - chief of the Islands & key of that Gulf ...
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