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Esta obra es un invaluable aporte a los estudios sobre la escuela y la sociedad en la Cuba de los siglos XIX y XX, así como a la historia de la práctica pedagógica y del pensamiento especializado en estos menesteres. Es fruto de una extensa labor iniciada hace ya algunos años, donde se han puesto en evidencia cuestiones tales como las proyecciones nacionalistas del profesorado cubano, el patriotismo en la escuela o el justo reconocimiento del papel desempeñado por los maestros humildes, tanto urbanos como rurales. Se ponen en relieve en este libro aristas desconocidas de la historia cubana y es capaz de suscitar más de un debate.
During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico. But more than a safe haven, Mexico was a key site, Dalia Antonia Muller argues, from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically active Cuban diaspora around the Gulf of Mexico. Offering a new transnational vantage on Cuba's struggle for nationhood, Muller traces the stories of three hundred of these Cuban emigres and explores the impact of their lives of exile, service to the revolution and independence, and circum-Caribbean solidarities. While not large in number, the emigres excelled at community building, and their...
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Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.