Volunteers of the Empire

List of Illustrations
Preface

1. Crossroads of Empires in the Antilles
The Annexationist Momentum
Volunteers Before the Volunteers in Spanish America
The Nobles Vecinos

2. A Reaction Against Annexation
What to do with the Volunteers?

3. Saved by the Empire: Morocco, Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico
War in Santo Domingo
Volunteers in Puerto Rico

4. Against the Revolution (1868-1878)
Counterrevolution in the Antilles
Volunteers' Days of Fury
A Propaganda War
The Volunteers and Labour Movement
From Cities to the Countryside: The Mobilised Battalions
The War Outside Havana: A Cuban Civil War
Volunteers in Puerto Rico

5. Fighting the Revolution Across the Atlantic
Casinos Españoles
Círculos Hispano-Ultramarinos

6. The Volunteers and the Reconstruction of Cuba
The Little War
Reconstructing Cuba
The Volunteers and the Military-Agricultural Colonies

7. The Volunteers and the Emergence of Party Politics
Repressing the Autonomists: The Puerto Rican "compontes"
The Volunteers and the Right to Vote

8. The Volunteers and the Military Challenges of Peace
Serving in the Volunteers under the Military Service Law of 1885
The Volunteers' Social Unrest
Reform Projects for the Volunteers
A new reglamento for the Cuban Volunteers
The Volunteers and the Fight Against Banditry

9. The Volunteers Towards the Disaster (1895-1898)
War in Cuba
Mobilising the Volunteers
Volunteers on the Spot
Weyler's Total War
Stalemate
Road to a New War
War from the Distance in Puerto Rico

10. The Volunteers in the Philippines

11. Dismantling the Volunteers

12. After the War

Bibliography
Index