num_pages: 300
description: This is a popular social history of Havana from its founding in 1519 to the present. The authors explain what it has been like to live in Havana physically, socially, culturally, emotionally, and economically. Crafting a narrative of the city’s history fro individual characters, literature, popular culture, and recurring landmarks and neighborhoods, the authors draw on scholarship from both sides of the Florida Straits. Particular attention is paid to the love-hate relationship between the Cuban capital and the United States. This vision of Havana’s life story brings alive the dramatic breaks in the city’s history, alongside all the aspects of its personality that have remained the same.—from the front flap of the dust jacketThis is the first comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city, and the first to be co-authored by a Cuban and an American. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, Cluster and Hernández explore the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies. The authors bring together conflicting images of a city that melds cultures and influences to create an identity that is distinctly Cuban. 
language: English
title: The History of Havana
titlecomplete: The History of Havana (Palgrave Essential Histories series)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan