This collection of research from Cuba scholars explores key conflicts, episodes, currents, and tensions that helped shape Cuba as a modern, independent nation.

Richard E. Morris is Professor of Spanish at Middle Tennessee State University. His research spans a range of topics, including Spanish dialectology, the geopolitics of sugarcane, and the development of U.S. tourism in Cuba. His documentary Milton Hershey's Cuba was a selection of the 2016 Culture Unplugged Film Festival.