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The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history. Always vulnerable to hurricanes, Cuba was ravaged in 1842, 1844, and 1846 by three catastrophic storms, with staggering losses of life and property. Louis Prez combines eyewitness and li...

The Times Literary Supplement calls Louis A. Perez Jr. "the foremost historian of Cuba writing in English." In this new edition of his acclaimed volume, Perez brings his expertise to bear on the history and direction of relations between Cuba and the United States.Of all the peoples in Latin America, the author argues, none have been more familiar to the United States than Cubans -- who in turn have come to know their northern neighbors equall...

Historical research on Cuba since the early 1960s has been a difficult task, mostly due to the poor state of U.S.-Cuba relations. This guide assists scholars who are attempting to access archival records and manuscript collections about Cuba that can be found in the United States. Including U.S. government and presidential collections, the guide provides researchers an indispensable locator of Cuba-related materials that exist in the United St...

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This is an invaluable comprehensive guide to the archival holdings and manuscript collections located in depositories throughout Cuba.

In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed...

Cuba's suicide rate is among the highest in the world. PAAA1/2rez provides an illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba from colonial times to the present, showing how the act of suicide was loaded with meanings that changed as historical circumstances changed.

Brings together some of the most perceptive observations of Cuba by 19th-century travellers from America and Europe. This century saw Cuba struggling to emerge as a modern nation and these travel accounts give a first-hand view of how modernization directly affected those living in Cuba.

Joseph J. Dimock's descriptions of Cuba in his travel diary provide a remarkable firsthand view of a fascinating period in the island's history. In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States was pursuing manifest destiny. The war with Mexico had result

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How Japan came of age in the final critical six months of negotiation that ended these treaties is carefully examined in this study that employs MutsuOs extensive personal and official correspondence as well as telegrams, and secret British and Japanese documents.

Longshot is cleaving through the water, the bow about halfway up on the two shells surrounding it. Roger decides the time is now. He brings the bullhorn up to his lips and screams, "We're coming up on seven hundred meters. Gimme a power drive, NOW!!

Features a broad spectrum of articles, including essays on: the role of race in the revolution of 1933, the subject of disaster in eighteenth-century Cuban poetry, developments in Cuban historiography, and, a profile of the work of historian Jose Vega Sunol.

Explores the rich cultural ties between Cuba and the United States and reveals their startling influence on the way Cubans see themselves as a people and as a nation. In a sweeping multilayered history, PAAA1/2AAA1/2rez explores the intertwined lives of Cubans and Americans from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s to show how deeply each nation influenced the other. Using an array of sources, from music to oral history to popular magazine...

From the 1870s, the sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system in Cuba, as great sugar estates--the "latifundia, " dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the resistance to these powerful landholders, and the violence propagated against them.

Perez views the various economic, political and diplomatic methods used by the United States government to exert hegemony over Cuba from 1913-1921. He also examines the political turmoil and collapse of the traditional Cuban party structure, as candidates were forced to forge alliances with the U.S.

Perez follows the rise and fall of the Cuban army, and its increasing political influence, from the Spanish American War until Castro's revolutionary takeover in 1958.