Havana — the keystone of the treasure-fleet system and the key to the Indies.
Remained Spanish until 1898; sugar and slavery boomed after Saint-Domingue's collapse in the 1790s.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Cuba (Spanish) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1511 · 1590 · 1683.
Ada Ferrer's Pulitzer Prize-winning history of Cuba from Spanish colonization to the present, covering the colonial centuries anchored on Havana.
Broad Caribbean context for Spanish Cuba and the late-century sugar boom.
The great Cuban novel of colonial-era Havana slave society, set in the 1830s under Spanish rule; the full novel was published in 1882, an earlier novella version in 1839.