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Acknowledgments The completion of this book leaves me very much in the debt of others, beginning with the staffs at the Archivo Nacional de Cuba and the Biblioteca Nacional "Jose Marti" in Havana and the National Archives and Libraryof Congress in Washington, D.C. I am especially appreciative of the efforts made in my behalf by the staff of the Inter-Library Loan office of the University of South Florida Library, particularly Marykay Hartung and Gayle Wozniak.They provided unflagging support through the course of this work, for which I am, once more, in their debt. No less important to the completion of this project was the assistance provided by the staff of the Information Processing Center of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of South Florida. Cecile Pulin worked with this manuscript during the early and most difficult drafts. Carole Rennick was helpful in moving the preparation of the manuscript toward its final form. Nita Desai provided vital assistance on many specific aspects of this project and was ready always to help in all the ways that matter. Sylvia Wood assisted in the completion of this project in ways too many to recount and too many to repay. I am most grateful. As so often in the past, Peggy Cornett made life infinitely easier while this book was in preparation. She has been a constant source of support and assistance, unconditionally and unfailingly. I am indebted also to friends and colleagues who gave generously of their time and insights while the manuscript was nearing completion . Jose Keselman provided thoughtful comments on several chapters . K. Lynn Stoner gave a careful reading to a large portion of the manuscript. She made many helpful suggestions and provided additional data to corroborate some of the key arguments of the book. I am indebted also to M. Fraser Ottanelli, who read the full manuscript and made valuable suggestions from a perspective not available to me. Robert P. Ingalls subjected the last draft of the manuscript to xxi XX11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS a rigorous review, probing arguments here and questioning syntax there. Steven R Lawson read a late draft of the complete manuscript. I am afraid that the value of some of his commentswas lost to me because of his impossible handwriting, but what I was able to decipher was enormously useful and helped me to focus on some of the key issues of the book. Nancy A. Hewitt read most of the manuscript and provided generous comments on both style and substance. Her importance cannot be overstated. Jules R. Benjamin read the completed manuscript and offered thoughtful suggestions and comments. My father provided enormous assistance with information for the section on music. He read and corrected the final manuscript version —and it could not have been done by anybody better. I am grateful also to Trudie Calvert, who subjected the completed manuscript to a thorough final review and in the process eliminated many of the remaining inconsistences and discrepancies. It is a better book for her having read it. I have, finally, appreciated the opportunity of working with Lester D. Langley, who first proposed this study. He has provided encouragement and assistance all alongthe way, for which I am grateful. The final moments of the completion of this book have provided me with an occasion for some retrospection, a time to take stock of what else has happened during the time this manuscripthas been in preparation . Some things have remained constant, and for much of this I am grateful for the constancy of friends. They know who they are. This has also been a time of loss. The deaths of Edwin Lieuwen, James W. Silver, and RamonPi y Castella have deprived me of friends who by word and deed taught me much about a great deal. They are very much missed. This has as well been a time of transition. It seems that change has come up suddenly between my daughters and me, although I know that it has been years in the making. Amara's departure for college has created a void that is partially mitigated by the certainty that I would not have had it any other way. Maya occupies a place of singular importance in my life, and this time together has been an occasion of renewal. We are approaching that moment of detachment: it is a good thing that I have had almost two decades to prepare for it. [3.12.36.147] Project MUSE (2024-04-26...

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