Indian category: 631 books
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,...
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...
The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean
1861-1898
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
In this book, _lvarez-L-pez details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansionist policies of northern European countries and the United States. In 1861, the Dominican...
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 Sherry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history,...
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...