Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba

This collection of essaysand research articles has been designed, by its breadth of expertise anddiscipline, to pay suitable homage to the seminal influence and contributionmade by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies.For that reason, it includes a judicious mixture of the old and the new, includingseveral of the leading and internationally well-established experts on Cubanhistory, politics and culture, but also some up-and-coming researchers in thefield; that mixture and the combination of topics (some addressing the pastdirectly, others assessing the present within a historical context) reflectsHennessy's own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of thehistory of Cuba.