To Die in Cuba
Subtitle: Suicide and Society (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: April 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780807829370
Subjects: Social History; Suicide; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Death, Grief, Bereavement; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Cuba; Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba; suicide; Cuban history; Cuban diaspora in Miami; Cuba; Self-destruction; Suicide and Slavery; Domestic violence; Gender roles in Cuba; Cuban revolution; Death / Grief / Consolation; Sociology - General; Political aspects
First sentence: The specter of death loomed large over the plantations of nineteenth-century Cuba.