Raices Cubanas is the 11th book on Cuban history by Raul Eduardo Chao. It is a masterly condensation of his three previous books, Colonial Cuba, Republican Cuba and Exiled Cuba. Chao obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University at an early age and spent 18 years as Department Chairman of Chemical Engineering at the Universities of Puerto Rico and Detroit. In recent years he has devoted most of his time exploring and presenting the drama of Cuban history. Raices Cubanas is profusely illustrated with more than 800 images, some of them seen there for the first time. It covers the history of...