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Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight into the ways in which Cubans practiced...

The Parsis are descendants of the Zoroastrians who left Persia 1,300 years ago and settled along India's western coast. Their aromatic cuisine, which combines the sophistication of Persian and Middle Eastern cooking with the heat and spice of the subcontinent's, is one of Asia's last great culinary...

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azucar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through...

LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism...

La Constitución de la República Dominicana de 1994 fue promulgada el 14 de agosto de ese año, durante el mandato de Joaquín Balaguer, tras una grave crisis electoral. Se dispuso nuevamente la no reelección presidencial, así como la reducción de cuatro a solo dos años el período presidencial de Balaguer. Este hecho fue conocido en la historia como el Pacto por la Democracia.

Tras el período chileno (1886-1889) con Azul..., vino el centroamericano (1889-1993). Darío escribe entonces los poemas que serán incluidos en una obra de gran importancia para el modernismo: Prosas profanas. Sobre este libro Rubén Darío escribió en su Autobiografía:Prosas profanas, cuya sencillez...

According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent...

Excerpt From Booklet Christianity despite its doctrines if not meddled with African religious practices is largely impotent. Even though Jamaican laws are created from the influences of Christian principles, many people often in secrecy are drawn to Obeah because of its ready actual and physical...

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According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the islands first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havanas central...

Cuba's first republican era (1902–1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, typically depicted as an illegitimate period in the nation's history, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado at best a prologue to the "real" revolution of 1959....

Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title "State-of-the-art yet accessible analyses that significantly expand understanding of the role of anarchism in Latin America. . . . Will long be a standard text that provides [an] important reference for scholars and students of labor and social movement history."--Choice...

A leading scholar sheds light on the experiences of ordinary Cubans in the unseating of the dictator Fulgencio Batista In this important and timely volume, one of today’s foremost experts on Cuban history and politics fills a significant gap in the literature, illuminating how Cuba’s electoral...