Bücher der Reihe Lexington Studies on Cuba

This book explores the unique health-based approach that has been employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity since 1959.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s in Cuba that challenges the prevailing interpretation of the revolution as simply a period of "Sovietization." Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives, this book demonstrates that the decade was a time of intense transformation that proved pivotal to the development of the revolution.

By comparing the current reform process under President Raul Castro to Cuba's opening to market capitalism during the 1990s Special Period crisis, this book highlights the differences and continuities between adjustments in both periods and their social impacts.

This book presents a religious and social history of Cuba's development as a nation and its relationship with the United States by examining the role of Presbyterian and other Protestant churches before and after the revolution in 1959.

While scrutinizing the principle pressures and influences of Cuba's key international relationships and issues, Cuban International Relations at 60 examines the island's global engagement and foreign policy since January 1959 by bringing together the perspectives of leading experts and personal accounts of two ambassadors.

This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting the Cuban Revolution's independence.

Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba discusses how, over six decades, Cuba developed a world-leading model of disaster management and climate change adaptation. Comprised of leading scholars and policy makers in the field, this volume questions what makes Cuba's effective model so distinctive and what others can learn from it.

Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End: Africa's Children Return! examines the historic dimensions of the Cuban Revolution's solidarity with Africa through the lens of Cuba's role in the battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the southern African national liberation and anti-colonial struggle more broadly.