Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture

Presenting an objective, balanced view of Cuba, 80 distinguished scholars and researchers survey the country's tempestuous history from past to present.

LUIS MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ is Professor and Chair of the Department of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University and the senior editor of this encyclopedia. His books include Torn between Empires: Economy Society and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878 (1994), Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century Havana (1998), and Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean (2002).D. H. FIGUEREDO is the director of the Library and Media Center at Bloomfield College, New Jersey. He has published over 60 articles on Latin American studies in anthologies, book, and journals. He has also published four children's books and several short stories that have been included in anthologies such as Short Stories International. He is a frequent contributor to the Multicultural Review and Booklist.LOUIS A. PEREZ JR. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books on Cuban history, among them Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (1995) and On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, & Culture (2001).LUIS GONZALEZ is president of Gonzalez & Associates, a literary agency. He has contributed to numerous reference works during more than 15 years in publishing. He was project manager of the critically acclaimed work Scientific American: Triumph of Discovery.