On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture

by Louis A. P?rez and Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Book Overview

With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959.

Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807824879
• ISBN13: 9780807824870
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"