Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
by Jaime Suchlicki
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
In Jaime Suchlickis engaging style, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond provides a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the Cuba of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In addition to its concise narrative history, CUBA details the current political climate, economy, and the regimes future. Suchlicki...
Rebel Lands of Cuba
The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934–1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores the ways these differences articulated with state formation from the pre-revolutionary period of 1934-1959...
by Marial Iglesias Utset
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban...
Listen, Yankee!
Why Cuba Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states—from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism.
Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban...
Our Woman in Havana
A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations...
by Fidel Castro, Jeffrey M. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliot and former Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally here contribute a lengthy, revealing interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro, discussing a wide-ranging series of topics dealing with local and international politics and economics, as well as the future of Cuba, the third world, Central and South America, and the United States.
Seeds of Insurrection
Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient...
Back Channel to Cuba
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing...
Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar
Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro’s revolution—the one that had inspired the Left throughout Latin America and elsewhere—would soon be gone as well....
Visions of Power in Cuba
Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained...
The Revolution Is for the Children
The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that "the revolution is for the children." Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of "Castro-communism." Anita Casavantes...
Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959
A Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Uncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much needed critical assessment of the Revolution's impact and legacy.
Antiracism in Cuba
The Unfinished Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social...
by Samuel Farber
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies...