"In addition to a superb analysis of the role of Protestantism in Cuba, Yaremko] provides an excellent analysis of life in Cuba during the first half of this century."--Luis Martinez-Fernandez, Rutgers University

Following the end of the Spanish-Cuban-American war in 1898, the U.S. Protestant Church embarked on a religious mission in Cuba that evolved into a zealous secular crusade to reconstruct Cuban society. The church s collision course with Cuba s revolutionary nationalism is the focus of Jason M. Yaremko s cultural history.

Under U.S. military rule after the war, various...

During the colonial period, thousands of North American Native peoples traveled to Cuba independently as traders, diplomats, missionary candidates, immigrants, or refugees; others were forcibly transported as captives, slaves, indentured laborers, or prisoners of war. Over the half millennium after Spanish contact, Cuba served as the principal destination and residence of peoples as diverse as the Yucatec Mayas of Mexico; the Calusa, Timucua, Creek, and Seminole peoples of Florida; and the Apache and Puebloan cultures of the northern provinces of New Spain. In this first history of the...