"The Cuban Embargo examines the changing politics of U.S. policy toward Cuba over the more than four decades since the revolution, from the powerful Cuban American National Foundation and the Reagan administration to the Helms-Burton Act and recent strictures by the Bush adminis…
"The Cuban Embargo examines the changing politics of U.S. policy toward Cuba over the more than four decades since the revolution, from the powerful Cuban American National Foundation and the Reagan administration to the Helms-Burton Act and recent strictures by the Bush adminis…
Prosperity so easily obtained -- Passing into economic darkness -- An uncertain source of wealth -- To overcome sugar -- To tremble in fear -- To return to what was before "plus ça change" "In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a stapl…
"Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new com…
This completely revised and updated edition focuses on Cuba since Raúl Castro took over the country's leadership in 2006. A Contemporary Cuba Reader brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in p…
"For the past two centuries, competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, with whiteness, blackness, and race mixture variably upheld as ideals. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics behind Cuban racial identities by highlightin…
"Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the "Year of the Lash"--a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades. At dawn on June 29, 1844, a fi…
