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There are few international relationships as intimate, as passionate-and as dysfunctional-as that of the United States and Cuba. In The Cuba Wars, Cuba expert Daniel Erikson draws on extensive visit……続きを見る

What good will reading about Fidel Castro and his Communist Marxist Government do? It will create a solid foundation that will help in the deep understanding of Fidel’s government. The purpose of bi……続きを見る

The post-1959 Cuban government’s engagement with Africa, which was led by its charismatic and revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, had two connecting dimensions: military internationalism and humanit……続きを見る

What are the dynamics of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system? Why was it ended? Who were the main players in the final end of the labour scheme? Were Indian labourers and/or the Indian ……続きを見る

In The Cuban Hustle, Sujatha Fernandes explores the multitudinous ways artists, activists, and ordinary Cubans have hustled to survive and express themselves in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s c……続きを見る

Narrativa - racconto lungo (29 pagine) - Un racconto arricchito da consigli pratici e suggestivi per un viaggio a Cuba con figli a seguito. "West Cuba in famiglia – L'isola ferma nel tempo" è una gu……続きを見る

This book presents the reader with a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy toward Cuba that was designed and adopted by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Based in governmental and other sources f……続きを見る

Harmony and Normalization: US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy explores the channels of musical exchange between Cuba and the United States during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama, who eased the mus……続きを見る

This 5-volume work features a comprehensive historical account of Cuba from the discovery of America in 1492. Lying in a peculiar sense at the commercial center of the world, between North America a……続きを見る

Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba. From Hemingway's intoxicating Havana to Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, outsiders have persistently been fascinated by Cuba for its music (ja……続きを見る

Conocemos la historia y la leyenda en torno a ella: desde mediados del siglo XX, la figura de Fidel Castro ha sido central en América latina. Sus largos discursos se volvieron célebres, eran el evan……続きを見る

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. ……続きを見る

A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to a……続きを見る

This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference “Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807–2007”, a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition……続きを見る

Barbadians were among the thousands of British West Indians who migrated to Cuba in the early twentieth century in search of work. They were drawn there by employment opportunities fuelled largely b……続きを見る

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 “This fascinating book explores the unique circumstances of white slaveholding women in 19th-century Cuba and the enslaved peoples they controlled . . .This……続きを見る

Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such inno……続きを見る

For many Cubans, Fidel Castro’s Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For othersーespecially those exiled in the United StatesーCuba’s turn to s……続きを見る

'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people' First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war. It covers strate……続きを見る

Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and f……続きを見る

This book presents a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy that was adopted toward Cuba by the Richard M. Nixon administration between January 20, 1969, and August 8, 1974. Based on governmental, as ……続きを見る

Chomsky analisa os efeitos políticos, econômicos e culturais do alinhamento com a União Soviética, a crise que se seguiu com o final do bloco soviético e a recente retomada das relações diplomáticas……続きを見る

Cómo una banda de guerrilleros autoentrenados derrocó a un dictador y cambió la historia del mundo. Este libro describe cómo un grupo de revolucionarios, muchos de ellos jóvenes privilegiados recién……続きを見る

This study examines the evolution of Cuban literature and culture from its origins in the 19th century to the present. The early sections analyze the relationship between literary production and uni……続きを見る

Para entender por qué Cuba sigue ocupando un destacado espacio en las agendas de los medios de comunicación alrededor del mundo hay que retrotraerse a la etapa insurreccional de la década de 1950, c……続きを見る

Este ensayo plantea históricos y actuales debates sobre el Caribe como región. La autora se pregunta por qué la plantación sigue siendo la explicación identitaria predominante. Asimismo, se hace el ……続きを見る

What Manner of Man Is This? is a unique and incisive look at an important but largely ignored period of the life of the Prince of Wales who was heir to the British throne and became King of England,……続きを見る

This is the first critical, in-depth study of the anarchist movement in Cuba in the three decades after the republic’s independence from Spain in 1898. Kirwin Shaffer shows that anarchists played a ……続きを見る

Grounded in painstaking research, To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture revisits the circumstances which led to the arts being embraced at the heart of the Cuban Revolution. Introducing the ……続きを見る

Cuba: Religião e Revolução é um importante estudo sobre uma das questões sociológicas e históricas que mais impactaram a história contemporânea da Ilha do Caribe: a presença da questão religiosa no ……続きを見る