Cuban Studies Institute

A term originally applied vaguely to the entire North American mainland adjacent to Cuba, its application was gradually circumscribed by the curtailment of Spanish territorial pretensions in face of French […]

Strong in Spain in the 1870s, anarchism reached Cuba through immigration and literature in the 1880s, and its successful appeal to Cuban workers threatened the non-political trade union movement organized

The usual term to denote any Afro-Cuban religion and all other practices similarly dismissed as superstitions. The word is also used by followers of the cults themselves to denote black

Under the Spanish colonial administration, prostitution was widespread and regulated. In 1885 there were two hundred registered brothels in Havana. The majority were located in the waterfront and industrial areas

A common practice among a vast portion of the population reflecting the traditionally weak popular confidence in economic ventures.  Cockfighting as a betting sport has a long tradition in Hispanic

Introduced in 1866 by a group of Cuban students who had studied in American universities, the first team was called “Habana.”  Leopoldo de Sola was the first league president, Antonio

These have been: [Of the República en armas] Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y del Castillo (October 10, 1868 – October 27,1873) Salvador Cisneros Betancourt (October 1873- June 1875) Juan Bautista

Religious toleration was an innovation of the 1762-1763 British occupation but had no immediate consequences. Opposed to both Cuba’s established Roman Catholic Church and to the rationalism (in the form

The Spanish empire in the Americas was carefully regulated to create societies subservient to the Spanish Crown. Church establishment, the patronato real, meant that religious and political affairs were never clearly