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The author recounts his childhood in Cuba.
Contains papers from a May 1997 symposium held in St. Louis, addressing different aspects of product quality as it relates to structural integrity, and the influence of design criteria on structural integrity. Topics include low-cycle fatigue testing of tubular material using non-standard specimens,
Cuban independence arrived formally on May 20, 1902, with the raising of the Cuban flag in Havana - a properly orchestrated and orderly inauguration of the new republic. But something had gone awry. Republican reality fell far short of the separatist ideal. In an unusually powerful book that will appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist, Louis A. Perez, Jr., recounts the story of the critical years when Cuba won its independence from Spain only to fall in the American orbit.The last quarter of the nineteenth century found Cuba enmeshed in a complicated colonial environment, tied to the declining Spanish empire yet economically dependent on the newly ascendant United States. ...
Includes annual indexes.