This collection of essays
and research articles has been designed, by its breadth of expertise and
discipline, to pay suitable homage to the seminal influence and contribution
made 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, including
several of the leading and internationally well-established experts on Cuban
history, politics and culture, but also some up-and-coming researchers in the
field; that mixture and the combination of topics (some addressing the past
directly, others assessing the present within a historical context) reflects
Hennessy's own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the
history of Cuba.