Alejandro De La Fuente: 3 books

Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local...

After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had...

Este volumen es una muestra de la vitalidad cultural y poética de Zapotlán el Grande a través de la organización y premiación del certamen de los juegos florales, la jovial justa provenzal que los zapotlenses —entre ellos Juan José Arreola, de quien celebramos el centenario— comenzaron a...