Reviews
"A delightful micro-study of a much-overlooked aspect of the wider historic bourbon reform processes in America."
"As a social history of the Havana elite, it works beautifully; as a microcosm of the wider Bourbon experience, and the tensions which it generated, it is revealing, turning the broad canvas into a more human picture. The detail is always fascinating, but the wider picture also comes through convincingly. It is archival history as it should be written."
--Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
"Cuban Convents is packed with intriguing details about the implications of the reforms and the reasons for their provocation in the four female religious orders operating in Havana, makes a useful contribution to the under-examined religious and political history of eighteenth-century Cuba and the virtually uncharted territory of convent life in the Spanish colonial Caribbean."
--The Journal of Latin American Studies - Cambridge University Press