Luis Martínez-Fernández, Ph.D.

  • Professor

E-mail
407-823-1169
Campus Location: CNH 531

Education

Research Interests

Latin America, the Caribbean, Cuba and Puerto Rico

Selected Publications

Books

Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture. Co-edited with Louis A. Pérez, Jr., D.H. Figueredo, and Luis González. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. Served as Senior Editor and authored the Introduction and fifty-three entries.

Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth-Century Havana. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1998.

Torn between Empires: Economy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Historia de Puerto Rico: cuaderno de ejercicios y actividades. (4 eds.), San Juan: Editorial Librotex/Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 1986-1993.

El Partido Nuevo Progresista: trayectoria hacia el poder y orígenes sociales de sus fundadores, 1967-1968. Río Piedras: Editorial Edil, 1986.

Articles/Essays

"1492: First Encounters, the Invention of America, and the Columbian Exchange." Revista Brasileira do Caribe 6:11 (2005), 13-31.

"Geography, Will It Absolve Cuba?" History Compass (online journal by Blackwell Publishing), 2 (2004) LA 066, 1-20.

"La frontera y la plantación: reflexiones sobre dos claves para empezar a entender las culturas cubana y caribeña." Cuaderno no. 9 of the Association of European Historians of Latin America (AHILA): Visitando la isla: temas de historia de Cuba. Eds. Josef Opatrný and Consuelo Naranjo Orovio. Madrid/Frankfurt: AHILA/Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2002. Pp. 149-159.

"Political Culture in the Hispanic Caribbean and the Building of U.S. Hegemony, 1868-1945." Revista Mexicana del Caribe 11 (2001), 7-55.

"Crypto-Protestants and Pseudo-Catholics in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51:2 (April 2000), 347-365.

"Marriage, Protestantism, and Religious Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico." Journal of Religious History 24:3 (October 2000), 263-278.

"Why Study the Past?: A Historian Reflects." Hopscotch 2:2 (Fall 2000), 64-69.

"Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898: Conflict, Continuity, and Change." Magazine of History 12:3 (Spring 1998), 24-29.

"The Birth of the American Empire as Seen Through Political Cartoons (1896-1905)." Magazine of History 12:3 (Spring 1998), 48-54.

"Life in a 'male city': Native and Foreign Elite Women in Nineteenth-Century Havana." Cuban Studies 25 (1995), 27-49. Reprinted in an expanded version as "The 'Male City' of Havana: The Coexisting Logics of Colonialism, Slavery, and Patriarchy in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" in Women and the Colonial Gaze. Eds. Tamara L. Hunt and Micheline R. Lessard. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. 104-116.

"The Havana Anglo-Spanish Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade and Cuba's Emancipados." Slavery & Abolition 16:2 (August 1995), 205-225.

"The Sword and the Crucifix: Church-State Relations and Nationality in the Nineteenth-Century Dominican Republic." Latin American Research Review 30:1 (Winter 1995), 69-93.

"Political Change in the Spanish Caribbean during the United States Civil War and Its Aftermath." Caribbean Studies 27:1-2 (January-June 1994), 37-64.

"Caudillos, Annexationism, and the Rivalry between Empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1874." Diplomatic History 17:4 (Fall 1993), 571-597.

"The Sweet and the Bitter: Cuban and Puerto Rican Responses to the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Sugar Challenge." New West Indian Guide 67:1 & 2 (May 1993), 47-67. Reprinted in Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World. Eds. Verene A. Shepherd and Hilary McD. Beckles. Kingston: Ian Randle, 2000. Pp. 506-517.

"'Don't Die Here': The Death and Burial of Protestants in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1885." The Americas 49:1 (July 1992), 23-47.

"El anexionismo dominicano y la lucha entre imperios durante la Primera República, 1844-1861." Revista/Review Interamericana 22:1-2 (Spring-Summer 1992), 168-190.

"La Fortaleza y la Ciudadela: la transformación del Senado y de la política puertorriqueña durante la administración de Luis A. Ferré, 1969-1972." Chapter in: Senado de Puerto Rico, Senado de Puerto Rico, 1917-1992: ensayos de historia institucional. San Juan: Senado, 1992. Pp. 239-267.

Book Sections/Chapters

"The Cuban Revolution." Chapter in A Companion to Latin American History. Ed. Thomas H. Holloway. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2007. Pp. 365-385.

"The Forging of Creole Cuba: Race, Gender and Society in the Sixteenth-Century," Chapter in Caribe/Caribes: Criollización y Procesos de Cambio. Ed. Josef Opartrný. Prague, Editorial Karolinum, 2006. Pp. 49-63.

"El '98 antes del '98: el expansionismo norteamericano en el Caribe Hispano durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX." Article in 1898: enfoques y perspectivas. Ed. Luis González Vales. San Juan: Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia, 1997. Pp. 381-401.

Spring 2010 Courses

Course Number Course Title Mode Date and Time
10804 HIS4150 HISTORY AND HISTORIANS Face2Face Tu,Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM
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11433 LAH3470 HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN Face2Face Tu,Th 1:30PM - 2:45PM
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21537 LAH4461 HISTORY OF PUERTO RICO Face2Face Tu,Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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