Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
My Life with Che
The Making of a Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the legendary figure, revealing his lesser known side as a romantic wanderer, a philosopher and doting suitor and father. Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in Guatemala as members of the political-exile community. Later they were...
Cuban Anarchism
The History of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This inspiring history of the Cuban anarchist movement is also a history of the Cuban labor movement. It covers both from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present, and ends with an enlightening analysis of the failure of the Castro dictatorship.
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
The Biography of a Cause
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought...
Yankee Come Home
On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the intense, complex, smoldering relationship between the island nation and its leviathan neighbor.
In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscape, William Craig is searching for a history that his family has lost-and now...
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
A Chronological History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements...
by C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Originally published in 1950, this analysis by three respected activists successfully predicted the future course of Marxism. Their revolutionary critique of industrial civilization possessed a striking originality that was insular in its political context and optimistic in its expectations for the...
ESCRITOS SOBRE LA ARENA
(WRITINGS ON THE SAND)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Escritos sobre la Arena recoge las memorias del autor de su familia en una época de gran agitación en la Historia de Cuba. Después de la renuncia del Presidente Batista, su padre, que era Jefe de la Policía Nacional en Santiago de Cuba, actuó como intermediario para ayudar a establecer comunicación...
Planet/Cuba
Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era
Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed...
Havana beyond the Ruins
Cultural Mappings after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international...
Castro's Secrets
Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence and security services, long-buried secrets of...
Cuba Libre
A 500-Year Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus’s first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive overview for all readers seeking to go beyond...
Fidel Castro
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
FIDEL CASTRO
August 13, 1926 November 26, 2016.
A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
--Fidel Castro
From revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring....
by José Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, Rafael Marquese
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the “second slavery.” The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing...
Cuba in Splinters
Eleven Stories from the New Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Think Cuba, you’re likely to think bearded revolutionaries in fatigues. Salsa. Sugar cane.Rock ‘n’ roll, zombies, drugs anomie and angst do not generally figure in our mental images of a country that’s assumed an outsized place in the American imagination. But fresh from the tropics,...