Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956

by Reinaldo L. Román (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $49.25

  Explores the changing relationship between regulators and practitioners in neocolonial Cuba and Puerto Rico. Examining seven episodes between 1898 and the Cuban Revolution when the public demanded official actions against misbelief, the author finds that when outbreaks of superstition were debated, matters of citizenship were usually at stake.