Education and Cuba Libre, 1898-1958
Laurie Johnston explores the significance of public education in Cuba's efforts to forge a national identity in a period of US intervention.
The last Spanish colony in the Americas, Cuba launched a second war for independence in 1895, more than half a century after the establishment of independent republics in the rest of Spanish America. However, the intellectual war against Spanish domination began earlier, before the first failed revolution of 1868-78.