On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) - Tapa blanda

Perez's book provides a masterly narrative supported by solid documentation framed in a coherent analysis. --"Journal of American History" Perez is one of the pioneers who tenaciously continued to work on Cuba despite the obstacles posed by both Washington and Havana. "On Becoming Cuban" is a roving exploration . . . --"New York Times" A thought-provoking, persuasive, enlightening, and at times humorous account. --"Diplomatic History" This is a tour de force by a great historian. --John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University This is a tour de force by a great historian. aJohn H. Coatsworth, Harvard University This is a tour de force by a great historian. _John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University PAEA(c)rez is one of the pioneers who tenaciously continued to work on Cuba despite the obstacles posed by both Washington and Havana. "On Becoming Cuban" is a roving exploration . . . "New York Times" PAEA(c)rez's book provides a masterly narrative supported by solid documentation framed in a coherent analysis. "Journal of American History" This is a tour de force by a great historian. John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University P??rez's book provides a masterly narrative supported by solid documentation framed in a coherent analysis. "Journal of American History" P??rez is one of the pioneers who tenaciously continued to work on Cuba despite the obstacles posed by both Washington and Havana. "On Becoming Cuban" is a roving exploration . . . "New York Times" This is a tour de force by a great historian. John H. Coatsworth, Harvard University

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 archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.