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Bretos has not only conferred on his beloved Matanzas its rightful place in history but he has provided students and fans of Cuban history with a significant launching point into the future.Miami Herald A marvelously wellresearched and engagingly written combination of urban biography and personal autobiography. . . . Erudite and highly instructive, enormously enhanced with outstanding illustrations.Choice Matanzas is the Cuban city nearest the United States. Located on the north shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas, sandwiched between Havana and Varadero, it is a mere ninety miles from Florida. The Athens of Cuba, as it was known in the heyday of the nineteenthcentury slavedriven, sugarbased boom, Matanzas is renowned for its cultural heritage.It is the birthplace of the traditional romantic danznCubas national danceand the sensual rhythmic guaguanc, a product of the citys preeminence as a hub of AfroCuban culture. Matanzas is the only foreign place in which an American vice president was sworn into office. Matanceros engaged in heavy commercial trading with Boston merchants for decades, exporting sugar and importing hard granite cobblestones to pave the streets. It is the place where Cuban baseball and modern Cuban art began. The city was home to the countrys first building wired for electricity, the first electric street cars, and the first public library,yet most Americans have never heard of it.Miguel Bretoss fascinating history of his hometown seeks to remedy that oversight. Bretos arrived in the United States at age eighteen, but his family retains close ties to the city where they lived for generations. From the aboriginal Tanos to the coming of revolution, Bretos unfolds the Matanzas story with solid research, wit, clarity, and the kind of vivid detail that can come only from an insider. Miguel A. Bretos is retired as senior scholar from the Smithsonian Institutions National Portrait Gallery and is the author of four books, including Cuba and Florida: An Exploration of a Historical Connection, 15931991.
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