To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society

by Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Book Overview

For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807829374
• ISBN13: 9780807829370
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"