Overview :Japan, or the "Land of the Rising Sun," is home to more than 126 million people, nearly 10 million of whom live in Tokyo alone. How did this... Read More
Overview :A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred... Read More
Overview :Louis G. Perez revisits Japan's turbulent past and recent events in the past decade and 21st Century in this revised and fully expanded seco... Read More
Overview :For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and amo... Read More
Overview :Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and econo... Read More
Overview :With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban ... Read More
Overview :The Archives of Cuba/Los archivos de Cuba is the first comprehensive guide to the archival holdings and manuscript collections located throu... Read More
Overview :Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was... Read More
Overview :- Choice 1987 Outstanding Academic Book This book examines the early years of the Cuban Republic, launched in 1902 after the war with Spain.... Read More
Overview :Cuban independence arrived formally on May 20, 1902, with the raising of the Cuban flag in Havana - a properly orchestrated and orderly inau... Read More
Overview :For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a vari... Read More
Overview :For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a vari... Read More
Overview :In Colonial Reckoning Louis A. Pérez Jr. examines Cuba's Wars for Independence in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing specif... Read More
Overview :For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a vari... Read More
Overview :The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms playe... Read More
Overview :How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense ... Read More
Overview :The Times Literary Supplement calls Louis A. P rez Jr. "the foremost historian of Cuba writing in English." In this new edition of his accla... Read More