Louis A Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 171607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis A Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis A |
| FAMILY NAME | Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | PÉREZ L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9684-4256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 101 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 100 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Splendid Liberators: Heroism, Betrayal, Resistance, and the Birth of the American Empire
Between an Unreachable Future and an Irretrievable Past
Los cubanos de la isla han construido un futuro nunca alcanzado y los cubanos del exilio se encuentran ante la posibilidad de regresar a una ciudad muy diferente a la que ha perdurado en su memoria.-Iván de la Nuez, La balsa perpetua: Soledad y conexiones de la cultura cubana -Barcelona, 1998
The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga
Yes—exactly as Lisandro Pérez indicates at the outset. The registry of his grandparents appears in the 1959 edition of Registro social de La Habana: Fonts y Acosta, Oscar–Nancy Boullosa de, accompanied with the listing of children Nancy, María Luisa, Carlos Ernesto, and two sons-in-law, Lisandro Pérez Rodríguez and Eduardo Rodríguez, and two grandsons, Lisandro and Víctor Pérez y Fonts. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: like all good storytellers, Lisan…
Cuba: An American History , by Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer's Cuba: An American History enters a well-established tradition of historical surveys of Cuba: a tradition with origins in the eighteenth century, actually.Long before Cuba was a sovereign nation, Cubans advanced claims to a separate history, different from and independent of Spain.Intimations of sovereignty coursed through the early histories of Cuba by José María Félix de Arrate (1697-1766), Ignacio de Urrutia y Montoya (1735-95), an…
Commentary: Unearthing the Root Causes of Central American Migration
We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World
From the moment that Cuba passed into the world at large as a subject deemed worthy of sustained scholarship—which is to say, ever since January 1, 1959—the topic of Cuba developed into something of a Rorschach blot: Cuba as a point of view. Cuba as a politics. Cuban studies—what was once upon a time known as “Cubanology”—emerged out of a charged environment of polemics—that is, a politics—with defenders and detractors of the revolution in robust…
Hideaki Kami. Diplomacy Meets Migration: US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War
“Even if they don’t get welfare,” protested one irate resident in Lithia, Florida, “they are still a burden. They will take Americans’ jobs. They will produce innumerable children to further flood our schools, crowd our already crowded country, and deplete our resources” (Tampa Tribune, May 30, 1980, 19-A). Most Americans seemed to agree. A Gallup survey conducted in mid-1980 reported that 56 percent of Americans polled opposed Cuban immigration.…
Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
How did Cuba’s long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island’s cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. In the dynamic between the two, dependency on food imports—a signal feature of the Cuban economy—w…
To Disquiet a Giant: Cuba, the United States, and the World
This essay reviews the following works:From Lenin to Castro, 1917–1959: Early Encounters between Moscow and Havana. By Mervyn J. Bain. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. Pp. vii + 159. $36.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781498537759
The Nostalgia of Empire: Time Travel In Cuba
This article examines the representation of present day Cuba in North American popular culture. It interprets documentary sources including blogs, travel guides, television documentaries, newspapers and travel company websites and brochures to establish that Cuba has become primarily a site of nostalgia for North American travellers. It argues that the phenomenon of American wistfulness for Cuba is best understood as a condition associated with t…
S pain R odriguez . Che: A Graphic Biography; I nverna L ockpez and D ean H aspiel . Cuba: My Revolution
The Cuban Revolution has been eminently susceptible to representation by way of graphic depiction, at home and abroad, by friend and by foe: as caricatures and cartoons in single-framed panels, at times as multiple panels in comic-strip sequences appearing in newspapers and magazines, often as full-length animated feature films, and most commonly as picture books. There is a politics to this graphic production, of course, for the aesthetics of th…
Yeidy M. Rivero. Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960
The Cubans affinity with modernity reaches deeply into the sources of Cuban national identity. During the nineteenth century, it served as a way through which Cubans distanced themselves from Spain; in the twentieth century, a way that Cubans distinguished themselves from the rest of Latin America. A none-too-subtle claim to exceptionalism, to be sure: they were different—Cubans insisted—more advanced, more cosmopolitan, more modern. Cuba was the…
Timothy Hyde. Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959
Journal Article Timothy Hyde. Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959. Get access Timothy Hyde. Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2012. Pp. viii, 371. Cloth $105.00, paper $35.00. Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Louis A. Pérez, Jr. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past
This expansive and contemplative history of Cuba argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain's defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. military intervention that immediately followed. To many Cubans it seemed almost as if the new nati…
Cohort Profile: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) was originally conceptualized as an interdisciplinary study of infant-feeding patterns, particularly the overall sequencing of feeding events (milks and complementary foods), the factors affecting feeding decisions and how feeding patterns affect the infant, mother and household. The idea was to study these topics within as natural a setting as possible and to analyse how infant-feeding de…
Thinking Back on Cuba’s Future: The Logic of Patria
The Calculus of Nation in the Cuban Revolution
The history of Cuba was imbued with a sense of purpose at its inception. To have discerned the need at all for a history of Cuba in the nineteenth century was itself product and portent of a momentous shift in consciousness, an occasion when narratives of the past revealed themselves as a potential source of national community. The history of Cuba began at the moment that the past became relevant to the future. Historical narrative developed as a…
Cuba in the American imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
"For more than two hundred often turbulent years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images - Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. One of the foremost historians of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizat…
Gratitude as the Moral Currency of Empire
The Archives Of Cuba/Los Archivos De Cuba
Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy
José Martí in the United States: The Florida Experience
We Are the World: Internationalizing the National, Nationalizing the International
Rethinking American History in a Global Age Ed.by Thomas Bender.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. x, 427 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-520-23057-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-520-23058-2.) Estoy buscando a América y temo no encontrarla. Sus huellas se han perdido entre la oscuridad. Estoy llamando a América pero no me responde. La han desaparecido los que temen la verdad. (I'm searching for America and I fear I won't find it. Its traces hav…
Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Toward Cuba
The Cuban Revolution shattered some of the most important policy formulations by which the United States had traditionally defined its place and defended its interests in the western hemisphere, for which Fidel Castro has been inalterably held responsible. Much of US policy towards Cuba during the past forty years has been driven by a determination to punish Cuba for the transgressions of Fidel Castro and a determination to resist a modus vivendi…
Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history. Always vulnerable to hurricanes, Cuba was ravaged in 1842, 1844, and 1846 by three catastrophic storms, with staggering losses of life and property. Louis P erez combines eyewitness and lit…
Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy
Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution
Between Baseball and Bullfighting: The Quest for Nationality in Cuba, 1868-1898
Journal Article Between Baseball and Bullfighting: The Quest for Nationality in Cuba, 1868–1898 Get access Louis A. Peréz, Jr. Louis A. Peréz, Jr. member of the history faculty University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 493–517, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081169 Published: 01 September 1994
Supervision of a Protectorate: The United States and the Cuban Army, 1898-1908
iMERICAN INTERVENTION IN TH CONFLICr between Cuba J-\and Spain, resulting in the Spanish-American War, transformed the character of the drive for Cuban independence. American armed forces took over conduct of a movement conceived initially to secure national independence and, in the process, annulled the ultimate objective of the Cuban struggle. Within the context of the Spanish-American War, Cuba was simply one theater of operations. The America…
We Are the World: Internationalizing the National, Nationalizing the International
Rethinking American History in a Global Age Ed.by Thomas Bender.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. x, 427 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 0-520-23057-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 0-520-23058-2.) Estoy buscando a América y temo no encontrarla. Sus huellas se han perdido entre la oscuridad. Estoy llamando a América pero no me responde. La han desaparecido los que temen la verdad. (I'm searching for America and I fear I won't find it. Its traces hav…
Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Toward Cuba
The Cuban Revolution shattered some of the most important policy formulations by which the United States had traditionally defined its place and defended its interests in the western hemisphere, for which Fidel Castro has been inalterably held responsible. Much of US policy towards Cuba during the past forty years has been driven by a determination to punish Cuba for the transgressions of Fidel Castro and a determination to resist a modus vivendi…
On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture
Aspects of Underdevelopment: Tourism in the West Indies
Response to Revolution: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961
Response to Revolution: The United States and the Cuban Revolution, 1959–1961. By Richard E. Welch Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. ix + 243 pp. Cloth, $24.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access Louis A. Perez, Jr Louis A. Perez, Jr University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 521–522, https://doi.org/10…
Intervention, Hegemony, and Dependency: The United States in the circum-Caribbean, 1898-1980
Research Article| May 01 1982 Intervention, Hegemony, and Dependency: The United States in the circum-Caribbean, 1898-1980 Louis A. Pérez,, Jr. Louis A. Pérez,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1982) 51 (2): 165–194. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638528 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
The Meaning of the Maine: Causation and the Historiography of the Spanish-American War
At 9:40 p.m. on February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor. The explosion occurred in the forward part of the vessel, near the port side, and almost directly under the enlisted men's quarters. The loss of life was staggering: out of a complement of 354 officers and men, a total of 266 perished in the explosion. The destruction of the Maine had immediate international repercussions. These were troubled times between the…
The Pursuit of Pacification: Banditry and the United States' Occupation of Cuba, 1889-1902
On 1 January, 1899, the noon ceremony in Havana was brief but solemn. The Spanish flag was lowered, the United States flag raised. Officers of both countries exchanged formal salutes and informal salutations, whereupon the official ceremony came to an end. After nearly a century of covetous preoccupation with the island, the Unites States assumed formal possession of Cuba
Politics, Peasants, and People of Color: The 1912 "Race War" in Cuba Reconsidered
I T was known at the time as la guerra de razas and la guerra racista. It still is. White Cubans had been dreading it for almost a century. Its probability had been long presumed, contemplated with a mixture of apprehension and readiness. It was a spectre that loomed large over the then colony. It did not diminish in the early republic. In 1912, white Cubans' worst fears were confirmed: blacks rose up in armed rebellion. The long-dreaded race war…
In the Service of the Revolution: Two Decades of Cuban Historiography 1959-1979
Army Politics in Socialist Cuba
Many of the essential early qualities of the Cuban Revolution emanated from the experience of armed struggle. In the Sierra Maestra microcosmic features of the socialist order acquired their earliest expression, assumed recognizable form, and established the foundations upon which the radical transformation of Cuban society would proceed. The exigencies of armed struggle created a new consciousness and at once proletarianized bourgeois revolution…
The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography
Protestant Missionaries in Cuba: Archival Records, Manuscript Collections, and Research Prospects
They arrived first in July 1898 in scattered numbers, in the company of an army of conquest, and subsequently in successive waves during the military occupation. By the time U.S. military rule over Cuba came to an end in May 1902, no less than a score of Protestant denominations had inaugurated evangelical activities in Cuba, including Northern and Southern Baptists, Southern Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, the Disciples of Christ, Quak…
Cuba Between Empires 1878-1902
Exploring the history of Cuba from 1878 to 1902, the author explains the political dimensions both of Spain's loss of sovereignty and of the US hegemony which replaced it. He also looks at the emotional strengths, political ambivalences and organizational weaknesses of the independence movement
The Military and Political Aspects of the 1933 Cuban Revolution: The Fall of Machado
The re-election of Gerardo Machado in 1928 promised to augur the continuity of the political quiescence that had characterized the President's first administration (1925-1928). By 1927, the Cuban chief executive had forged a coalition among the national political sectors, binding the Liberal, Conservative, and Popular parties to his candidacy for re-election. Through the appropriate application of patronage and coercion, the President had imposed…
Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America: Case Studies from the Circum-Caribbean
It is the latter issue more precisely, the relations of the United States with Latin America that serves as the subtext of this study and, in fact, drives its principal arguments. The notion of political culture serves largely as a way to fix responsibility for the condition of under development on the 'culture' of the South rather than on the policies of the North. To this end, the authors discuss Latin American class structures, ideology, and p…
Dependency
Journal Article Dependency Get access Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Louis A. Pérez, Jr. graduate research professor in history University of South Florida, Tampa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 133–142, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078645 Published: 01 June 1990
Armies of the Caribbean: Historical Perspectives, Historiographical Trends
They are different-the armies, guardias, and militaries of Central America and Caribbean. In fact, they are quite unlike all other armed forces of Latin America. They are often portrayed as caricatures of Latin American armies, but worse still, caricatures of themselvesand too often they seem given to emulating caricature. In popular culture, in public imagination, and in professional assessments, commentators past and present have viewed Caribbe…
Supervision of a Protectorate: The United States and the Cuban Army, 1898-1908
iMERICAN INTERVENTION IN TH CONFLICr between Cuba J-\and Spain, resulting in the Spanish-American War, transformed the character of the drive for Cuban independence. American armed forces took over conduct of a movement conceived initially to secure national independence and, in the process, annulled the ultimate objective of the Cuban struggle. Within the context of the Spanish-American War, Cuba was simply one theater of operations. The America…
Aspects of Underdevelopment: Tourism in the West Indies
The Military and Political Aspects of the 1933 Cuban Revolution: The Fall of Machado
The re-election of Gerardo Machado in 1928 promised to augur the continuity of the political quiescence that had characterized the President's first administration (1925-1928). By 1927, the Cuban chief executive had forged a coalition among the national political sectors, binding the Liberal, Conservative, and Popular parties to his candidacy for re-election. Through the appropriate application of patronage and coercion, the President had imposed…
Scholarship and the State: Notes on A History of the Cuban Republic
IE CUBAN REVOLUTON placed deficiencies of American scholarship on Cuba in sharp relief. Fifty years of close diplomatic and economic relations rarely generated anything more than casual attention to the Cuban past, producing, for the most part, a rather meager and inauspicious corpus of scholarship. Rarely have modern historiographic antecedents been so ill prepared to receive an event of such transcendental magnitude as the Cuban Revolution. Old…
Army Politics, Diplomacy and the Collapse of the Cuban Officer Corps: The 'Sergeants' Revolt' of 1933
In August 1933 a bitter revolutionary struggle reached its climax in Havana. Pressure from the United States during mediations conducted by American Ambassador Sumner Welles, a general strike and a military coup combined to topple the government of Gerardo Machado. National tensions made acute during the machadato and contradictions generated in the anti-Machado struggle converged in the newly constituted administration of Carlos Manuel de Césped…
Tourism in the West Indies
Journal Article Tourism in the West Indies Get access Louis A. Perez, Jr. Louis A. Perez, Jr. 1Louis A. Perez, Jr., is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida in Tampa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 1975, Pages 136–143, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1975.tb00590.x Published: 07 February 2006
Communication: Women in the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1953-1958: A Bibliography
Army Politics in Cuba, 1898-1958
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Army Politics in Socialist Cuba
Many of the essential early qualities of the Cuban Revolution emanated from the experience of armed struggle. In the Sierra Maestra microcosmic features of the socialist order acquired their earliest expression, assumed recognizable form, and established the foundations upon which the radical transformation of Cuban society would proceed. The exigencies of armed struggle created a new consciousness and at once proletarianized bourgeois revolution…
Army Politics in Cuba, 1898-1958
Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960: A Political Sociology from Machado to Castro
The New Cuba: Paradoxes and Potentials
Four Men, Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba
Four Men, Living the Revolution: An Oral History of Contemporary Cuba
Army Politics in Cuba, 1898-1958
Cuba Materials in the Bureau of Insular Affairs Library
For the better part of the last fifteen years, scholars in the United States researching late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Cuba have worked under severe handicaps. First and foremost, obviously the richest collections of Cuban materials-in Cuba-are beyond easy access. It is not without some irony that the very phenomenon that made Cuba the subject of intense interest also placed the vast corpus of sources vital to the study of the isla…
Intervention, Revolution, and Politics in Cuba, 1913-1921
Cuba Between Empires 1878-1902
Exploring the history of Cuba from 1878 to 1902, the author explains the political dimensions both of Spain's loss of sovereignty and of the US hegemony which replaced it. He also looks at the emotional strengths, political ambivalences and organizational weaknesses of the independence movement
In the Service of the Revolution: Two Decades of Cuban Historiography 1959-1979
Cuban Medicine
Breve historia de la revolución cubana
In the Service of the Revolution: Two Decades of Cuban Historiography, 1959-1979
HEtriumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 presented the revolutionary government with the immediate task of legitimizing the new order. Over a period of twenty years, this enterprise demanded vast quantities of energy, resources, and ingenuity and ultimately required the participation of the full polity-fromn revolutionary elites to mass organizations.' To be sure, the early phase of this process did not differentiate the Cuban experience from th…
Intervention, Revolution, and Politics in Cuba, 1913-1921
Cuba's Freedom Fighter, Antonio Maceo: 1845-1896
Intervention, Hegemony, and Dependency: The United States in the circum-Caribbean, 1898-1980
Research Article| May 01 1982 Intervention, Hegemony, and Dependency: The United States in the circum-Caribbean, 1898-1980 Louis A. Pérez,, Jr. Louis A. Pérez,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1982) 51 (2): 165–194. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638528 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter L…
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