Preface. In memory of Alistair Hennessy
Antoni Kapcia
1. Spanish republicanism and the colonial empire: Alistair
Hennessey and Spain's democratic revolution
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
2. Rethinking pathways to the Cuban past
Louis A. Pérez, Jr.
3. The origins of Cuban socialism
Fernando Martínez Heredia
4. Persuading parliament: Rafael María de Labra, Spanish
colonial policy and the abolitionist debate (July 1871)
Catherine Davies
5. Ethnic whitening processes and the politics of race, labour
and national identity in colonial Cuba: a case study of Irish
immigrants, 1818–45
Margaret Brehony
6. From Hispanic essays to modern reporting: the evolution of
Cuban journalism, considered through the figure of Justo de
Lara
Jordi Garrell
7. The changing shape of Cuban cinema: a report and a reflection Michael Chanan
8. A mixed economy of labour in a changing Cuba
Steve Ludlam
9. What’s in a name? Emigrant Cubans since 1959 and the curious
evolution of discourse
Antoni Kapcia
10. Decentering cubanidad. Commodification, cosmopolitanism and
diasporic engagement shaping the Cuban migration to post-1989
Western Europe
Catherine Krull and Jean Stubbs
Antoni Kapcia is Professor of Latin American History at the University of Nottingham. He is also the author of Cuba: Island of Dreams (2000) and Havana: The Making of Cuban Culture (2005).
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