Cuba in the World, the World in Cuba

Essays on Cuban History, Politics and Culture

a cura di Lorini, Alessandra; Basosi, Duccio

Alessandra Lorini teaches North-American History / History of Inter-American Relations at the University of Florence and has published extensively in the field of international American studies. Her recent publications include L'impero della libertà e l'isola strategica Gli Stati Uniti e Cuba tra Otto e Novecento (2008). Duccio Basosi teaches History of International Relations at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His monograph on the end of the Bretton Woods monetary system, Il governo del dollaro (2006), was awarded the annual prize of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History in 2007.

Collana: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca

Comitato Scientifico: Nuove Americhe

The volume approaches Cuba as a nation that hosts a convergence of extraordinary global developments and, in turn, projects itself onto the world's major cultural, political and economic processes. From different perspectives, ranging from architecture and music to politics and economics, the twenty-one essays presented here embrace the multifaceted interactions between Cuba and foreign imperial strategies during the 19th century, the troublesome formation of national political cultures in the first half of the 20th century, and the multiple global aspects of some of Cuba's choices from the Cold War to the first decade of the present century.