Probably no American scholar is better qualified to prepare a general bibliographic guide to Cuba than Perez. . . . The present volume is a selective, annotated bibliography intended for generalists or other scholars working outside their specialty.. Preference is given to English-language sources and titles generally available outside Cuba. The book fulfills its stated purpose and should prove helpful to students and scholars. Choice
This bibliography provides a general guide to the literature on Cuba from 1512 to the present and identifies the major works in a wide variety of fields and disciplines, such as geography, archaeology, history, population and demographics, health and medicine, politics, economics, science and technology, literature, and the performing arts. This important work has been developed to include those materials that are at once comprehensive treatments of the subject, representative of the field and state-of-the-art, and suggestive of additional research. Preference has been given to English-language works and titles that are generally available to readers.
Louis A. Pérez Jr. is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the Editor of the Cuban Journal.
Principal research interests center on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean, with emphasis on Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Current research project explores the sources of Cuban nationality and identity.