Bøger af Louis A. Perez

From the 1870s, the sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system in Cuba, as great sugar estates--the "latifundia," dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the resistance to these powerful landholders, and the violence propagated against them.

Perez follows the rise and fall of the Cuban army, and its increasing political influence, from the Spanish American War until Castro's revolutionary takeover in 1958.

Perez shows how U.S. armed intervention in Cuba in 1898 and subsequent military occupation revitalized elements of the colonial system that would serve U.S. imperialist interests during Cuba's independence.

Focusing on what President McKinley called ""the ties of singular intimacy"" linking the destinies of the United States and Cuba, Louis A. Perez examines the points at which they have made contact - politically, culturally, economically - and explores the dilemmas that have arisen.

Although these collections are not as complete as some original collections in Cuba itself, they do offer excellent starting points for various research projects on Cuba--pending future access to original Cuban collections.

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 relations and continuing struggle for self-determination.

In an unusually powerful book that will appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist, Louis A. Perez, Jr., recounts the story of the critical years when Cuba won its independence from Spain only to fall in the American orbit.