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 cultur

On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earli

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 imag

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