On becoming Cuban
Subtitle: identity, nationality, and culture
By: Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
Subjects: Nationalism -- Cuba -- History; Cuba -- Civilization -- American influences; Cuba -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- Cuba
Description: "On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of Cuba and the United States and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s, when Cuba was still a Spanish colony, until the revolution of 1959."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-569) and index.