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Book Review
| Cuban Confederate Colonel: The Life of Ambrosio José Gonzales. By Antonio Rafael de la Cova. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xxx, 537 pp. $59.95, ISBN 1-57003-496-6.)
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| Most scholarship on United StatesCuban relations concentrates on the century after 1898 and emphasizes how United States influence grew on the island. The numerous contributions nineteenth-century Cuban expatriates made to North American politics, economy, and culture are all but forgotten. Antonio Rafael de la Cova's book offers an important correction through an examination of the life of one such expatriate, Ambrosio José Gonzales. |
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