Indian category: 631 books
by Hiranya Borah
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
AKHADYA (NO FOOD/ PROHIBITED FOOD/ FOOD with BAD TASTE) how those are prepared and under what circumstances those can be eaten despite of some reservation due to different reasons, from taste of food to timing of taking those meals/snacks, mental block about some food etc.
I started my cooking expedition...
by Damien Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The Bermuda Triangle. The Devil’s Triangle. Call it what you will but this area off the coast of the southwestern United States has stirred peoples’ imaginations for hundreds of years.
You won’t find it on any official maps, which hasn’t actually stopped would-be cartographers from...
Red Heat
Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on
During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson,...
Cachita's Streets
The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals,...
by Lakshmi Lal; Badri Narayan (illus)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2012
Lakshmi Lal recreates the absorbing story and the lyrical beauty of the original Sanskrit epic the Valmiki Ramayana. In rich and expressive language, she narrates the legend of Rama, the Ikshvaku prince, who embodies the ideals by which a man, a warrior and a king must live.
Havana Hardball
Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and The Cuban League
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dramatic series win by Almendares against its rival, Habana. As the celebration spread through the streets of Havana and across Cuba, the Brooklyn Dodgers were beginning spring training on the island. One...
by John Lawrence Tone
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the "Splendid Little War" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization...
by Alejandro de la Fuente
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local...
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery
Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.As The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows, ambitious planters throughout the Greater Caribbean hired a...
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties
Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of 1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent years.
Through the conceptual lens of "other diplomacies," which emphasizes interactions among non-state...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This monograph examines the evolution of United States Army deployment operations through the failures during the 1898 Santiago Expedition's mobilization through Tampa, Florida. The failed...
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept...
by Arthur F. Crowin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886—from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude. Making extensive use of heretofore untapped research sources from the Spanish archives,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
In the fall of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came as close as they ever would to global nuclear war. Hoping to correct what he saw as a strategic imbalance with the United States, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev began secretly deploying medium range ballistic missiles (MRBM) and...