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by Crystal Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
If you love Every Man Deserves a Good Jacket,then you are going to love Ghetto Slam. Real Jamaican story. Fun, laughter and life.
Impossible Returns
Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical...
My Havana
The Musical City of Carlos Varela
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. One of the best known singer-songwriters to emerge out of the Cuban nueva trova movement, Varela has toured in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. In North America, Varela...
Dark Beyond Darkness
The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, among the world’s foremost authorities on the Cuban missile crisis, synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project on the most dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible, and written with their usual flair and wit,...
by Matt D. Childs
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial,...
by Chitra Balasubramaniam
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This is a little guide giving details of the retailers, sellers, manufacturers, self help groups, NGOs who stock organic and natural products in Delhi. The directory has 50 listing of such entities. Many of them are lesser known but do excellent work and not in the mainstream count of stores. There...
Madhouse
Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as...
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba
Passion, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history...
The Louis A. Pérez Jr. Cuba Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes The War of 1898, On Becoming Cuban, and Cuba in the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Louis A. Perez Jr. is one of the most influential historians of Cuba. Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook edition, this three-volume set brings together three of Perez's most acclaimed works on Cuba and its relations to the United States.
This Omnibus Ebook contains:
The...
La neblina del ayer de Leonardo Padura (Guía de lectura)
Resumen y análisis completo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2017
ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La neblina del ayer, del escritor cubano Leonardo Padura. En una novela en la que pasado y presente se confunden, el autor realiza un retrato crítico de la vida cotidiana en Cuba a través de las investigaciones del expolicía Mario Conde....
by Jorge Mañach Robato
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Como él mismo Mañach señala, Perfil de nuestras letras surgió de una sugerencia de la dirección del periódico, para que comenzase a redactar una serie de artículos en los cuales desarrollara algún tema continuo. Entre febrero de 1947 y octubre de 1948 publicó 34 trabajos, que siempre salían...
by Mervyn Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Louise Bennett Coverley, ‘Miss Lou’, has for decades represented the ‘face’ of Jamaican culture, the essence of what it is to be Jamaican. As a poet, performer, storyteller, singer, actress, writer, broadcaster, folklore scholar and children’s television show host, she won hearts and souls...
The Cubalogues
Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2010
Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting...
Beyond Cuban Waters
Africa, La Yuma, and the Island's Global Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Twenty-first century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of "blackness." The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural independence inform the daily...