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"The book that challenges forever your view of our national legacy and our destiny"--Jacket subtitle.

Text and color graphs and charts describe changes in health, safety, welfare, and environmental and social conditions since 1900.

Nineteenth-century photographs, documents, and writings vividly contrast immigrant and upper-class lifestyles while illuminating the characteristics of urban transportation, architecture, social structure, and politics.

"A personal account from a prominent intellectual whose writings on Cuba have become a mixture of disillusionment and fatalism. This book is based on an account of Halperin's visit in 1989, which left him less optimistic than ever about Cuba's future. He found 'the popular mood one of deep discouragement' (p. 190) and could not imagine 'any young Cuban, or even older ones, prepared to die for socialism.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57....

This volume offers an assessment of the social and political changes in Cuba that occured during the 20th century. The author acknowledges the accomplishments of the revolution in eliminating illiteracy, fostering greater social equality, and providing public education and free medical care. But he is severely critical of the regime's political repression against the people of Cuba.

Hector Aguilar Camin and Lorenzo Meyer, two of Mexico's leading intellectuals, set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of contemporary Mexico during the twentieth century, from the conditions that set in motion the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to the most recent presidential elections in 1988. A la sombra de la Revolucion Mexicana, now available in English as In the Shadow of the Mexican...