Författare: Louis A. Perez Jr.

When Heinz Luning posed as a Jewish refugee to spy for Hitler’s Abwehr espionage agency, he thought he had discovered the perfect solution to his most pressing problem: how to avoid being drafted …

For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images–Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe …

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 …

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. Fostering …

How did Cuba’s long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez …

Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba’s political and economic development within the context of its international …

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. Offering both a …

For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world–a condition made all the more …

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 …

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 …

When Heinz Lüning posed as a Jewish refugee to spy for Hitler’s Abwehr espionage agency, he thought he had discovered the perfect solution to his most pressing problem: how to avoid being drafted int …

The Times Literary Supplement calls Louis A. Pérez Jr. ’the foremost historian of Cuba writing in English.’ In this new edition of his acclaimed 1990 volume, he brings his expertise to bear on the hi …

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. Fostering …

How did Cuba’s long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez …

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. Offering both a …

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 …

For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world–a condition made all the more …

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 …

For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images–Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe …

In Colonial Reckoning Louis A. Perez Jr. examines Cuba’s wars for independence in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing specifically on those Cubans who remained loyal to Spain. Drawing …