Essays on Cuban History: Historiography and Research Unknown - 1995

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"A book of immense utility to those who are, or plan to become, students and scholars of Cuban history and society. . . . Both an overview and a handbook combined into one accessible, well-written volume."--Rebecca J. Scott, University of MichiganReflecting three decades of study of one of the most respected scholars of Cuba in the Unied States, these essays examine some of the central issues of historical research of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuba.
The first section sets in relief many of the principal themes of Cuban studies, including Protestant missionary activity, the U.S. interventions in 1898, Cuban emigration to the United States, and the development of the Cuban armed forces after 1959.
The second section examines the historical literature itself, especially works written in Cuba and the United States in the last thirty-five years. It looks at the trends in the literature, with emphasis on the ways that historical writing has arrived at an understanding of the Cuban past.
The third section offers a guide to some of the larger research collections, specifically those repositories of important manuscript collections and archival records relating to Cuba. It includes a description of the Cuban National Archives, missionary manuscript collections, and records of the U.S. government.
Contents
Part I. History
Intervention and Collaboration: The Politics of Cuban Independence, 1898-1899
Cubans in Tampa: From Exiles to Immigrants, 1892-1901
The Imperial Design: Politics and Pedagogy in Occupied Cuba, 1899-1902
North American Protestant Missionaries in Cuba and the Culture of Hegemony, 1898-1920
Reminiscences of a "Lector" Cuban Cigar Workers in Tampa
Ybor City Remembered
Army Politics in Socialist Cuba, 1959-1969
Part II. Historiography
Scholarship and the State: Notes on History of the Cuban Republic
U.S.-Cuban Relations: A Survey of Twentieth-Century Historiography
In the Service of the Revolution: Two Decades of Cuban Historiography, 1959-1979
The Cuban Revolution after Twenty-Five Years
History, Historiography, and Cuban Studies
Part III. Research
The Archivo Nacional de Cuba
Record Collections of the Cuban National Archives
La Guerra Libertadora Cubana de los Treinta Aos, 1868-1898
Cuba Materials in the Bureau of Insular Affairs Library
Protestant Missionaries in Cuba
Research Perspectives on the Cuban Revolution: A Twenty-Five-Year Assessment
Louis A. Prez, Jr., is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Among his many books are Slaves, Sugar, and Colonial Society: Travel Accounts of Cuba, 1801-1899, Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy, 1770s-1980s, Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution, and Cuba Under the Platt Amendment, 1902-1934, which received a Choice outstanding academic book award.