To Die in Cuba

Suicide and Society
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8078-5816-5
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series

For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world - a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society. ""To Die in Cuba"" ultimately tells as much about Cubans' lives, culture, and society as it does about their self-inflicted deaths.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pérez, Louis A. Jr.

Über Autor(innen)

Louis A. Perez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of numerous books on Cuba, including Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution and On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture.