Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
by Damien Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Most people think of sun, sand, and endless parties when they hear the word ‘Caribbean’. In some cases all of that’s true, which is why the Caribbean islands remain one of the premier destinations for sun worshippers and party goers worldwide. Here’s a not so hidden secret though: the history...
Puerto Rico
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much of its recent...
Rescuing Our Roots
The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"Contributes new perspectives on historical black identity formation and contemporary activism in Cuba."--Choice "Provides invaluable insight into the histories and lives of Cubans who trace their origins to the Anglo-Caribbean."--Robert Whitney, author of State and Revolution...
by Dick Cluster, Rafael Hernández
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
"Serious but easily readable. The History of Havana employs conventional documentary, written and visual sources and a variety of testimonials from throughout the world to bring to life the complex portraits and challenges of contemporary Havana." —Harry Belafonte
Since its founding...
Ay, Cuba!
A Socio-Erotic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The NPR reporter offers an “engaging and enlightening” window into late-90s Cuba, “from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba” (Kirkus Reviews).
For NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, reporting from Cuba on the eve of Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit was an opportunity...
by Adrian Musgrave
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Great War of 1914 - 1918 has taught the world more in geography and history than a century of ordinary education would have imparted. It has destroyed many inherited prejudices and shattered the complacency which was shackling the imagination that built up the British Empire. As peace introduces...
Havana
A Subtropical Delirium
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city...
Cuba beyond the Beach
Stories of Life in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city....
Havana without Makeup
Inside the Soul of the City
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insider’s view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations.
Opening on...
Blurred Borders
Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin.
Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that...
The Cuba Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists,...
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent...
This Is Cuba
An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December"
"Fascinating." —Forbes
Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain....
Cuba
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
L'île de Cuba, la plus grande de l'archipel des Caraïbes (110 922 km2), occupe une position stratégique à 77 km de Haïti et à 140 km de la Jamaïque. Longue de 1 200 km – alors que sa largeur varie de 32 à 145 km –, Cuba est très proche du continent, des États-Unis et du Mexique …