Although protested by some commanders, no single approach prevailed among these competitive armies thrown together in a loose coalition. Dominated by full-page graphics, many issues were thematic visual essays developed by a single artist. The penetration of missionaries into the interior of China, for example, destabilized rural economies and incited anti-foreign sentiments. In 1901, occupation forces roamed the countryside to pillage, loot, and hunt for Boxers. Prisoners will not be taken! In the centerfold of the August 16, 1899 issue of Puck, the not-so-cynical Keppler extended his feminization of global power politics to other great nations including a new arrival on the scene: Japan. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). 19th Century Editorial Cartoons and the Business of Race., Thompson, Roger R. Reporting the Taiyuan Massacre from, Tuffnell, Stephen. Along with his burden of steel, trains, sewing machines, and other industrial goods, Uncle Sam carries a book titled Education, Religion in a nod to the rhetoric of moral uplift that accompanied the commercial goals of the civilizing mission. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, In these details, the headlight of a modern vehicle (Judge, 1900) and starlight from a goddess of civilization (Puck, 1898) illuminate demeaning caricatures of China. What did the public back home know about the fighting of these far-off wars? By the 1890s, the U.S. began to revitalize both its commercial and naval fleets. In this rendering, progresseconomic, technological, and culturalis spread through global military aggression. The wars undertaken in the name of Civilization and Progress were more savage, tortuous, and contradictory than is often recognized. Source: Widener Library, Harvard University, The barbarity of imperial war is displayed on a battlefield littered with dead soldiers of many nationalities that stretches from contemporary warshere, the Philippines and Transvaal (Boer War)back through time to Roman Wars. The sub-caption of this 1900 Judge cartoon once again asks the disturbing question: is civilization advancing?. Source:Wikimedia. Barbarism lies at the base of the mountain to be climbed by Uncle Sam and John Bullwith civilization far off at the hoped-for end of the journey, where a glowing figure proffers education and liberty. The fifth stanza of Kiplings poem refers to an ascent toward the light: Barbarisms companion attributes of backwardness, spelled out on the boulders underfoot, include oppression, brutality, vice, cannibalism, slavery, and cruelty. 62, Issue 4,pp. A Rival Who Has Come to Stay. Uncle Sam was portrayed both with youthful energy and as a paternal older figure straining to follow in John Bulls footsteps as he took up the White Mans Burden., After Many Years: The Great Rapprochement. [Read Online]. In its final issue for 1899a time when the U.S. suppression of Filipino resistance was at its peakPuck turned to a feel-good holiday graphic to reaffirm this theme of the bounty promised to newly invaded countries and peoples. The argument follows Englands example, as spelled out on the blackboard, that By not waiting for their consent, she has greatly advanced the worlds civilization. An African-American washes windows. The book on the desk reads: U.S. It allows prisoners to enjoy the view from the outside and have the illusion of freedom (Official Report to the War Office. Includes bibliographical references and index. Around 1904 or 1905in another impassioned response to the American war in the Philippines (which officially ended in 1902 but in practice dragged on for many years thereafter)Twain penned a short essay titled The War Prayer. The essay is now regarded as an exemplary indictment of blind patriotism coupled with religious fanaticism. The 1901 date indicates that the specific reference is to Allied reprisals against Chinese civilians following the Boxer Uprising. We are making such material available to our readers under the provisions of "fair use" in an effort to advance a better understanding of political, economic and social issues. (doi:10.1017/S0021875810000046). Bello, Walden. The imperialist rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism that took root during these years was reinforced in both the United States and England by a small flood of political cartoonscommonly executed in full color and with meticulous attention to detail. Transatlantic dimensions of the American Anti-Imperialist Movement, 1899-1909.Journal of Transatlantic Studies. Long May It Wave. By contrast, with the exception of Sudan, the burden Britain bears reflects backward older cultures that look forward to civilization or back, condescendingly, at those people, cultures, and societies deemed even closer than they to barbarism. Both visually and textually, the white mans burden was steeped in derision of non-white, non-Western, non-Christian others. Silence). We had no design of aggrandizement and no ambition of conquest. The View White Man's Burden.pdf from HIST 1302 at San Antonio College. His biblical title, which came from Matthew 4:16 (The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light), picked up on many pro-imperialist themes of the times. 799820 (June 2000). An Atlantic Triangle in the 1900s: Theodore Roosevelts special relationships with France and Britain.Journal of Transatlantic Studies,Vol. Britains John Bull leads Uncle Sam uphill as the two imperialists take up the White Mans Burden in this detail from an overtly racist 1899 cartoon referencing Kiplings poem. One victim of the UK Blair torture regime Fatima Boudchar was actually pregnant when kidnapped along with her husband for rendition. Auto-Truck of Civilization and Trade: the Asia Market. Boxer attacks on Western infrastructure and the siege of foreign diplomats in Beijing gave the international powers a pretext for entering China with military force. Selling Empire: American Propaganda and War in the Philippines., Cullinane, M. Patrick. The word Civilization (with a capital C), alongside Progress, was counterposed against the words barbarism, barbarians, and barbarity, with accompanying visual stereotypes. Uncle Sams New Class in the Art of Self-Government. W. A. Rogers,Harpers Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, August 27, 1898. They laud substandard leaders because it is how people are ruled in Africa. Source:Library of Congress, This rueful cartoon places Confucius and Jesus side-by-side and laments the failure of all parties to practice what they preach. The foothold in the Philippines brought China within reach. Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Western leaders eagerly embraced the doctrine of the white man's burden because it was a convenient justification for their expansionist policies. Vaughan, Christopher. A more earthly approach is taken in the graphic Some One Must Back Up that heads this essay. (The exception would be Manchuria, alternating between Russian and Japanese control in the coming years.) The divine right of kingshere, Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany as a pompous war lord mounted on a colossal cannonis intermingled with the divine mission of clergy, often the first Westerners allowed into foreign lands. Commodore Deweys victory in Manila Bay in May not only paved the way for U.S. conquest of the Philippines, but also provided a valuable naval base for U.S. fleets in the Pacific. Jean Veber,LAssiette au Beurre, September 28, 1901. Civilization warns Chinas passive emperor to stop the Anarchy, Murder, and Riot spread by Boxer insurgentsvisualized as a dragon crawling over the city wallattacking missionaries, Chinese Christians, and Westerners. The War Prayer begins with a preacher praising the nations just and holy war, and leading his congregation in praying for victory. The material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving it for research and educational purposes. T he two main themes in The White Mans Burden are the duty and altruism of colonization, and the challenge of colonization. Lifes satire of the white mans burden mystique offers a procession of the supporters of the new imperialism beginning with missionaries and ending with the traveling salesman. The campaign was stepped up to target the civilian population that provided crucial support for guerrilla fighters in both the Transvaal and Orange Free State republics. (doi:10.1080/14650040802275644). "The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. This was followed by the invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico. In the decolonisation of the developing world, the phrase the white man's burden is synonymous with colonial domination, to illustrate the falsity of the good intentions of Western neo In the United States, the Boer War, conquest of the Philippines, and Boxer Uprising prompted large, detailed, sophisticated, full-color cartoons inPuckandJudge. The Real White Mans Burden was published in 1902, after the Spanish-American war and it is a satire of another poem by British author Rudyard Kipling - The White Mans Burden. Estimates of civilian fatalities, on the other hand, range from 200,000 to possibly well over a million. Several of these graphics fromPuckcommented on Americas problems at home while accusing others of being barbarians. Source:Library of Congress. Our Civilized Heathen asks what is civilized and who are the heathen. The large Map of the United States and Neighboring Countries is dotted with U.S. flags marking newly-acquired territories. Philippines, Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico. A Native American reads a book upside down and a prospective Chinese pupil stands in the doorway. The U.S. must govern its new territories with or without their consent until they can govern themselves.. Revell, 1904). Fears that China would descend into chaos and xenophobia justified intervention to safeguard the spread of modernity, civilization, and trade. The U.S. must govern its new territories with or without their consent until they can govern themselves. Veneration of Britains treatment of colonies as a positive model attests to the significant shift in the American world view given U.S. origins in relation to the mother country. This superiority, obviously leads to a moral responsibility of the superior to uplift and civilize the inferior. The march of civilization against barbarism is a late-19th-century construct that cast imperialist wars as moral crusades. Contemporary conflicts are spelled out over dark clouds. The anti-imperialistLifemagazine was similarly attuned to the hypocrisy of cloaking military violence in pious rhetoric. The enlarged detail below reveals that the flags of the opponents say the same thing in different words, each justifying their wars to uphold the principle of the Golden Rule., Are our teachings, then, in vain? Udo Keppler,Puck, October 3, 1900. It was feared that the mystical rituals and xenophobic violence of the Yi He Tuan (Boxer) secret society would overwhelm Chinas ineffectual rulers, cast the country into chaos, and hinder the trade and profits anticipated by the great powers. Oer The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? On the left, Minerva, goddess of wisdom and Western civilization, witnesses the debut. On June 17, while the fate of Seymour and his men remained unknown to the outside world, Allied navies attacked and captured the forts at Taku. Western leaders eagerly embraced the doctrine of the white man's burden because it was a convenient justification for their expansionist policies. Accusations of atrocities against civilians on the ten-day march to Beijing were made in first-hand accounts of the mission. Esherick, Joseph. The turn of the century also witnessed emergence of articulate anti-imperialist voices worldwideand this movement had its own powerful wing of incisive graphic artists. The conduct of foreign troops in China was targeted in a searing cartoon by the French artist Thophile Steinlen. It was to change the darkest spot in darkest Africa back again into a land flowing with milk and honey that Great Britain took over the tremendous burden of administration from the Niger Company, and sent one of its greatest ' Africans ' (Sir F. D. Lugard) with a small body of earnest men into the 'White Man's Grave. All of the hastily organized camps, for whites and blacks alike, had inadequate accommodations, wretched sanitation, and unreliable food supplies, leading to tens of thousands of deaths from disease and starvation. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German. 27-1-09 (July 6, 2009). By not waiting for their consent she has greatly advanced the worlds civilization. Although usually associated with the pro-expansionist proponents of civilization and progress,Puckon occasion turned a discerning eye on the double standards of Americas so-called noble mission in the Philippines and China. A Red-Letter Day. The caption reads Think It Overa phrase that also appeared later in Mark Twains To the Person Sitting in Darkness essay. In the West, China was often characterized as befuddled and archaic under the rule of an inscrutable crone, the Empress Dowager. A laughing missionary in the lead, blood-soaked soldiers of the Allied forces tread on the bodies of women and children while carrying severed heads on a pike. Civilization and its Discontents: The Boxers and Luddites as Heroes and Villains., The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, CGACGA, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, CGACGA, The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, William H. Walker Cartoon Collection, Princeton University Library, The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library. In a strikingJudgegraphic, an Auto-Truck of Civilization and Trade lights a pathway through the darkness, leading with a gun and the message: Force if Necessary. Overladen with manufactured goods and modern technology, the vehicle is driven by a resolute Uncle Sam. In the September 28, 1901 issue, artist Jean Veber excoriated the shameful subject of the concentration camps British forces used to weaken Boer resistance in the Anglo-Boer War of 18991902. View Copy of White Man's The cartoonist targets capitalists as the true power behind the policies and practices in the Pacific, with a portrait of businessman Marcus Hannaa dollar sign elongating his earthat dwarfs a portrait of President William McKinley. Copy of White Man's Burden Analysis.pdf - Perspectives on the White Mans Burden Directions: In 1899, British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote The White | Course Hero. Were we to transport an army more than half way around the earth merely to listen to peace propositions? And the political cartoons of the timesubjective, emotional, ideological, highly politicized and at the same time, politically diversifiedconvey this complexity with unparalleled sophistication and intensity. Death to all Schools but Ours. The last marcher holds up Drummers Samples, referring to the traveling salesmen of business and commerce. The British people had a long history of supporting imperial wars and as the conflict escalated, criticism in cartoon form declined and was supplanted by patriotic messages. Un treillage de fer travers par un courant lectrique est la plus saine et la plus sre des cltures. 32, No. The campaign met with fierce resistance and saw the introduction of concentration camps as an extreme maneuver against the Boer defenders. According to Kipling, European countries had a duty to spread their religion and culture to those less civilized places. Stark images such as these helped make public a subject that was generally suppressed. Supporters of imperialism in Europe and the United States believed that imperialism helped their colonies because it brought new technology and growth. The phrase White Mans Tan, Chester C.The Boxer Catastrophe. The Manila Correspondent and the McKinley Censorship. George Benjamin Luts,The Verdict, August 21, 1899. The French caption mocks British hypocrisy in officially praising the humanitarian behavior of their armed forces. The graphics protesting U.S. actions in the Philippines were particularly biting, as seen in a page satirically titled Lucky Filipinos. Rising from the flames of a burning home, a skeletal apparition represents the hundreds of thousands of Filipinos killed in the U.S. campaign. Wilhelm points ahead, where the inhabitants flee. Education in the ways of the West completed the political and commercial occupation. In mid 1899,Lifepublished this chilling view of the war in the Philippines that was to drag on for several more years. Colonial success is equated with chivalry and invincibility.. The caption applies the motto united we stand to the Anglo-Saxon brotherhood spreading Western civilization abroad. The Boer War Remembered.The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. The blackboard contains the lessons learned from Great Britain on how to govern a colony and bring them into the civilized world, stating, By not waiting for their consent she has greatly advanced the worlds civilization. The caption, titled The First Duty, carries this subtitle: Civilization (to China)That dragon must be killed before our troubles can be adjusted. 1898 poster promotes the U.S.-British rapprochement as A Union in the Interest of Humanity Civilization, Freedom and Peace for All Time. Multiple representations symbolize the two Anglo nations: national symbols (the eagle and lion); flags (the Stars and Stripes and Union Jack); female personifications (Columbia and Britannia); male personifications (Uncle Sam and John Bull); and national coats of arms (eagle and shield for America; lion, unicorn, crown, and shield for Great Britain). The feminine representations of imperial nations pictured here include Russia, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Spain, and France. 301-314 (2010). One was the second Boer War of 18991902 that pitted British forces against Dutch-speaking settlers in South Africa and their black supporters. In reality, it was just a cover-up to seek profits in these countries such as seen in the Hawaiian native on top of Uncle Sam's . In his 1898 notes for the Treaty of Pariswhich ended the Spanish-American War with Spain surrendering Cuba and ceding territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, and the PhilippinesMcKinley made a prototypical statement of the civilizers responsibilities in the kind of rhetoric still used today: We took up arms only in obedience to the dictates of humanity and in the fulfillment of high public and moral obligations. Three overlapping turn-of-the-century conflicts in particular stirred the righteous rhetoric of the white imperialists. After Many Years. 367-373 (1998). However, brutally repressive policies followed that included accusations of genocide. Reports of the Boxer attacks seeped out of the beleaguered area and misinformation spread, like this headline in theNew York Timeson July 30: Wave of Massacre Spreads over China. Postwar industrialization and the introduction of new commodities such as steel and electricity gradually transformed the agrarian nation. Some of the poorest provinces in the north were further stressed by a destructive combination of flooding and prolonged drought. Women and children were included among the Boer prisoners of the British. Civilization and progress are inseparable, a train and telegraph drawn in her robes. Here, perfectly mythologized, is yet another graphic rendering of the mystique of Western civilization., Japan Makes her Dbut Under Columbias Auspices. Udo Keppler,Puck, August 16, 1899. As early as mid 1899, for example,Lifecalled attention to the staggering death count among Filipinos with a cartoon titled The Harvest in the Philippines. It is now estimated that, all told, between 12,000 and 20,000 Filipino military perished in this conflict, as opposed to 4,165 killed on the U.S. side. The expedition met with unexpectedly fierce opposition from Boxers and Qing dynasty troops and was forced to retreat. Its colonies were acquired through purchase, agreements with other world powers, and economic domination. The Origins of the Boxer War: A Multinational Study(London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). One cannot imagine a blunter caption than the one that accompanied his 1900 cartoon forJudge: And, after all, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China. In Flohris image, Uncle Samheavily laden with steel, railroads, bridges, farm equipment, and the likegives a cursory nod to the spread of civilization by grasping a book titled Education and Religion. The confident giant is greeted with open arms by a diminutive yellow-clad Chinese mandarin. Cohen, Paul A. The caption quotes one of the presidents speeches: Teaching them the truth of the common fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and showing that if we are not our brothers keepers we can be our brothers helpers. In an 1895Puckcartoon, A Rival Who Has Come to Stay, John Bull gapes while Uncle Sam proudly displays his prowess as Uncle Sam the Ship Builder. The U.S. Navy moved up from twelfth to fifth place in the world. Many politicians used the phrase and its views as the basis for their imperialist and racist policies. An exceptionally vivid cartoon version of Kiplings message titled The White Mans Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling) was published inJudgeon April 1, 1899. The U.S. policy of benevolent neutrality supported Britain in the Boer War with large war loans, exports of military supplies, and diplomatic assistance for British POWs. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2014). Source:The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Weber, Mark. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938). Warships steam over the horizon of their chests flying banners of great waterways that would ideally open the world to commerceSuez Canal (completed in 1869) and Managua Canal (projected through Nicaragua to link the Caribbean and Pacific oceansan undertaking later transferred to Panama). Other graphic techniques were used by cartoonists to communicate this message. Think It Over: All this for politicsis civilization advancing?. French artists, on the other hand, leveled charges of barbarism against Great Britain and other imperial powers, including their own country, in vivid graphics. A scrawny female figure in the background appears to be a skull-faced depiction of Britannia, grown thin and solitary through endless pursuit of war. In a post-Bismarck era, Germany was a late-comer to the colonial land grab in Africa and the Pacific. Religion played a major role in the characterization of others as heathens in need of salvation through education, conversion, and civilizing in the ways of Christian culture. Bickers, Robert A. and R. G. Tiedemann. The image argues that a crisis point has been reached and the caption states, Some One Must Back Up., Left:Auto-Truck of Civilization and Trade,Progress,Force if Necessary,Cotton Dry Goods Education, Right:Boxer,400 Million Barbarians,China, Civilization and barbarism meet as the headlight of Uncle Sams gun-mounted Auto-Truck of Civilization and Trade shines the light of Progress on China. Published during the Boxer uprisings against Westerners and Christians, the cartoon portrays China as a frenzied dragon under the control of a Boxer gripping a bloody sword and banner reading 400 Million Barbarians. In the balance of power between technological progress and primitive barbarians, the cartoon makes clear who must back up.. Kipling is referring to British colonization and the necessity of sending people to those colonized areas Raising money to Save the Foreign Devils recurs in the visual record. The white man's burden poem was written by Rudyard Kipling. From 1899 to 1902, the U.S. and Great Britain each became mired in colonial wars that were more vicious and long-lasting than expected. Relatively free from European rivalries and well situated to become a transoceanic partner, the U.S. was courted for the role. Commercial interests not only drove U.S. policy in Asia, but also shaped public opinion about it. As the U.S. moved into the Pacific, Chinas millions represented an enticing new market, but the eruption of the anti-Christian, anti-foreign Boxer movement threatened the civilizing mission there. To the Person Sitting in Darkness.. Few new vessels were commissioned until the 1880s when the first battleships were built,U.S.S. Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, Helen Toribo. Anthropomorphizing nations and concepts meant that in an 1899 cartoon captioned The White Mans Burden, the U.S., as Uncle Sam, could be shown trudging after Britains John Bull, his Anglo-Saxon partner, carrying non-white nationsdepicted in grotesque racist caricaturesuphill from the depths of barbarism to the heights of civilization. Indeed, the visual record was, in its unique way, more powerfulmore literally graphicthan words alone could ever be. The aggressive quest for new marketsChinas millions being the most covetedwas justified as part of the benevolent and inevitable spread of progress. gma news pagasa weather update today 2021. At the same time, the distinction the artist draws between Britains burden and Americas is striking. The Harvest in the Philippines. Frederick Thompson Richards,Life, July 6, 1899. This military dimension of the multi-ethnic United Kingdom is often forgotten. The racism and contempt for non-Western others that undergirds Kiplings famous poemand the civilizing mission in generalis unmistakable here. The scene above turns the tables on theHarpers Weeklycover (above) and accuses foreign troops and missionaries of atrocities during the Boxer Uprising in China. European countries sought to colonize and plunder the wealth from regions with large populations such as Africa and Asia. Here the Auto-Truck of Civilization and Trade shines a headlight upon a raging dragon and sword-wielding Chinese Boxer whose banner reads 400 Million Barbarians. In the imagery of the civilizing mission, China is portrayed as both backward and savage. In the civilization narrative, barbarians were commonly identified as the non-Western, non-white, non-Christian natives of the less-developed nations of the world. On the magazines cover for August 8, 1900, the familiar feminized and godlike personification of the West points at a slavering dragon, labeled Boxer, crawling over the wall of the capital city. The graphics include pillage, rape, and wanton executions. The phrase became a trope in articles and graphics dealing with imperialism and the advancement of Western civilization against barbariansor as the poem put it, Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.. Miller, Bonnie M. The Image-Makers Arsenal in an Age of War and Empire, 1898 1899: A Cartoon Essay, Featuring the Work of Charles Bartholomew (of theMinneapolis Journal)and Albert Wilbur Steele (of theDenver Post). Journal of American Studies, 45, pp 53-75 (Cambridge University Press). The Native: Ever since my home was burned to the ground and my wife and children shot. Frederick Thompson Richards,Life, October 18, 1900. Mans Burden, in the caption to thisLifecover published shortly after Kiplings poem. ), yesterday we took important commandos. Twitter. As the golden goose, Chinas perceived mass market was to be protected for free trade against takeover by increasingly assertive foreign powers. Model students Hawaii and Porto Rico appear as docile girls learning their lessons. The caption reference to harvest surely carried multiple meaning to many ofLifes American readers. hier encore nous avons pris un important commando. Business and government colluded with the military in silencing press coverage of the poor conditions suffered by American soldiers, including scandals around tainted supplies, and the grim realities of the Philippine-American War itselfcensorship that foreshadowed the broader excising of the unpleasant war from national memory. The backdrop to the scene, a large Map of the United States and Neighboring Countries, attests to the new position the U.S. has taken in the world, with its overseas territories marked by U.S. flags. In contradiction to the western white mans burden narrative, both Bush and Blair presided over torture programs victimising Muslim people-of-colour. In the U.S., the 1860s Civil War generated suspicion that neutral Britain covertly supported the Confederacy. The more popular studies however have largely focused on the following four leadership perspectives: 1. Given the fact that Twain was famous and widely admired for his outspokenness, it is especially disconcerting to learn that he and his close supporters concluded that challenging the mystique of civilization and progress in such stark terms was not feasible given the political and religious fervor of the times. It ought to be a Happy New Year, the caption reads. As the American West was absorbed and the continent consolidated, the mandate of Manifest Destiny shifted from territorial to commercial expansion beyond contiguous borders. In one of the most lasting images of the conflict, the legation quarter in Beijingoverflowing with some 900 foreign diplomats, their families, and soldiers, along with some 2,800 Chinese Christianswas put to siege. Britain stepped in to defend the rights of the immigrants, known asuitlanders(foreigners) to the Boers. Driven by competition with each other and economic pressures at home, the worlds major powers ventured to ever-distant lands to spread their religion, culture, power, and sources of profits. Uncle Sam breaks up a fight between students identified as Cuban Ex-Patriot and Guerilla in his New Class in the Art of Self-Government. The famous white-haired general, Mximo Gmez, a master of insurgency tactics in the Cuban Independence War (18951898) reads a book with his name on it. 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