Contents
Preface
Presbyterians in the Revolution: An American Missionary Church and the Challenge of Castro’s Cuba, 1959–1970 - Theron Corse
Fuga y fragmentación de las mil y una islas - Lourdes Gil
Cuba para todos: Anarchist Internationalism and the Cultural Politics of Cuban Independence, 1898–1925 - Kirwin Shaffer
Dinámicas intergeneracionales en la comunidad cubana al sur de la Florida: Identidad y política en la segunda generación - Marta Díaz Fernández
Possession and Altar Making: Reconstruction of Memory as Artistic Performance in the Multimedia Installations of María Magdalena Campos-Pons - Flora M. González
Watching Neighbors: The Cuban Model of Social Control - Josep M. Colomer
The Resurrection of Cuban Statistics - Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Olga Miranda Bravo. The U.S.A. versus Cuba: Nationalizations and Blockade. La Habana: Editorial José Martí, 1996. 127 pp. and Peter Schwab. Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. 226 pp. Reviewed by Philip Brenner.
Jane Blocker. Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. 165 pp. Reviewed by Carol Damian. 153 Onilda A. Jiménez. La mujer en Martí. En su pensamiento, obra y vida. Miami:Ediciones Universal, 199
Carlos Paz Pérez. Diccionario cubano de términos populares y vulgares. La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1996. 197 pp. Reviewed by Leonel-Antonio de la Cuesta.
Abel F. Losada. Cuba: Población y economía entre la Independencia y la Revolución. Vigo: Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo, 1998. 408 pp. Reviewed by Sergio Díaz-Briquets.
Houman A. Sadri. Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study of China, Cuba, and Iran. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997. 147 pp. Reviewed by Georges A. Fauriol.
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara. Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico,1833–1874. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. 239 pp. Reviewed by Albert García Balañá.
William Gálvez. Che in Africa: Che Guevara’s Congo Diary. Melbourne: Ocean Press, 1999. 307 pp. Reviewed by Christopher Gray.
Ransford W. Palmer, ed. US-Caribbean Relations: Their Impact on Peoples and Culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998. 167 pp. Reviewed by Clifford E. Griffin.
John Lewis Gaddis. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 425 pp. and Roger Hilsman. The Cuban Missile Crisis: The Struggle Over Policy. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996. 192 pp. Reviewed by James G. Hershberg.
Celia María Parcero Torre. La pérdida de La Habana y las reformas borbónicas en Cuba (1760–1773). Madrid: Junta de Castilla y León, 1998. 291 pp. Reviewed by G. Douglas Inglis.
Roberto González Echevarría. The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 464 pp. Reviewed by Milton Jamail.
Luis Martínez-Fernández. Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century Havana. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 200 pp. Reviewed by Sherry Johnson.
Ken Cole. Cuba from Revolution to Development. London and Washington: Pinter, 1998. 174 pp. Reviewed by John M. Kirk.
Jesús Guanche Pérez. Significación canaria en el poblamiento hispánico de Cuba: Los archivos parroquiales (1690–1898). La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria, 1992. 143 pp. Reviewed by Abel F. Losada Alvarez.
Ian Lumsden. Machos, Maricones, and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1996. 263 pp. Reviewed by Francisco Moran.
Philip A. Howard. Changing History: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 227 pp. Reviewed by Robert L. Paquette.
Louis A. Pérez Jr. On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 579 pp. Reviewed by Gustavo Pérez-Firmat.
Adriana Méndez Rodenas. Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1998. 338 pp. Reviewed by K. Lynn Stoner.
Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro García. Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Translated from the Spanish by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. (Primera edición: Caminos para el azúca
Recent Work in Cuban Studies - Marian Goslina, compiler
Contributors