Books written by Louis A. Pérez Jr.
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On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture
Vicente Milián owned the Havana Fruit Company. ... Jesús López Guerrero operated the Health Protection Institute. ... In 1907 the Liga Cubana de Publicidad formed with Walter Stanton as president and Rafael Fernández and J. A. González ...
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Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
Sumner Welles to Cordell Hull, May 13, 1933, 837.00/3514, Diplomatic Post Records: 1930–1945/RG 59. ... was “a plum”—in Cordell Hull's words—“which will not be granted until the Cuban Government has taken positive and satisfactory steps ...
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Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
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 ...
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Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
John Kendrick Bangs, Uncle Sam Trustee (New York, 1902), p. 342. 103. Woodrow Wilson to Rafael Conte, May 8, 1916, Series 4, File 97, Woodrow Wilson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Almost all U.S. diplomatic officials ...
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The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years of American historical writing.
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The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past
121 There was perhaps no more usable historical metaphor for the Special Period than the Protest of Baraguá, in which Antonio Maceo repudiated the peace settlement with Spain in 1878 and vowed to continue the struggle for independence.
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To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society
... de Medicina y Cirugía de La Habana XII (June Io, I9o7): 25o; Diario de la Marina, June I6, I918, p. 3. 5I. Fernando Ortiz, “La decadencia cubana,” Revista Bimestre Cubana I9 (January— February I924): I7-44; La Lucha, August 2, 192o, p ...
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Intimations of Modernity: Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems.