Torn Between Empires - by Luis Martinez-Fernandez (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Viewing developments as they relate to the countries' common heritage of insularity, colonialism, and slavery, Luis Martínez-Fernández points out profound, underlying balance-of-power transformations during a time of ostensibly small change in the region's political status.

About the Author

LUIS MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ is a professor of history at the University of Central Florida. His books include Frontiers, Plantations, and Walled Cities: Essays on Society, Culture, and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1800-1945 and Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean.