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From: "viviannarvaez" <>
Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Marquez-Sterling
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:07:54 -0400
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Rafael Estenger's "Sincera Historia de Cuba," though not mentioned as often
as M-S's book, is extremely good, written with great elegance, from the
vantage point of very strong convictions. It is one of my favorites.
Regards, Vivian Narvaez
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Subject: Re: [CUBA-L] Marquez-Sterling


> On Manuel y Carlos Marquez Sterling:
> Check a good Cuban History. If you don't want to purchase it, borrow it
form
> a friend or go to the puublic library. Better, go to the University of
Miami
> cuban department and ask for advise. you can also check the periodical
kept
> in microfilms.
> I recomend as sufficiently comprehensive, regarding the Republican period
> 1902- 1959,
> Octavio R. Costa, Imagen y Trayectoria del cubano en la Historia, from
> Ediciones Universal; and certainly to be found there in Libreria
Universal,
> calle 8 and 32 Ave. [ Ave. more or less].
> you can also read Calixto G. Maso, Historia de Cuba.
> Carlos M S was one of the most important members of the constitutional
> assembly that promulgated the Constitucion del 1940, but the political
> history of both father and son are to long to write it here.
>
> to place your ancestors in the historiacal context in which they lived is
> very enlughtining, useful to understand why and how they did, move, etc
the
> things that characteized their lives and thus yours.
>
> Like telling your children and later your graandchildren what happened in
> Cuba after 1959 will explain to them why they have been born here in the
> States; if thing had been different, they might have been born elsewhere
in
> Cuba.
>
> Or your parent's children would be different persons, not precisely you,
> because maybe they woul have married other spouses.... and so on....
> Marta
>
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