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Cuba in Mind

Author : Maria Finn Dominguez
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400076137
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba in Mind written by Maria Finn Dominguez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer ample proof of the fascinations that have lured generations of travelers. In this richly varied anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, we hear from such famous visitors as Anthony Trollope, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Graham Greene. Poets and journalists offer their responses, from Allen Ginsberg and Jayne Cortez to Alma Guillermoprieto and Robert Stone; and novelists weigh in with such fictional portrayals as Elmore Leonard’s Cuba Libre and Pico Iyer’s Cuba and the Night. Cuban exiles, immigrants, and their offspring provide their unique perspective, from Cristina García’s essay “Simple Life” to excerpts from Oscar Hijuelos’s novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love and from Carlos Eire’s memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana. Embracing salsa and santeria, politics and baseball, the island’s sparkling beaches and the teeming Havana streets, Cuba in Mind captures the vibrancy, the contradictions, the heat and the humor of Cuba as shown by some of the best writers in the English language. Contributors: Thomas Barbour • José Barreiro • Ruth Behar • William Cullen Bryant • Jayne Cortez • Stephen Crane • Andrei Codrescu • Eleanor Early • Carlos Eire • Kimi Eisele • Cristina García • Allen Ginsberg • Graham Greene • Alma Guillermoprieto • Elizabeth Hanly • Ernest Hemingway • Consuelo Hermer • Oscar Hijuelos • Langston Hughes • Pico Iyer • Elmore Leonard • Rosa Lowinger • Marjorie May • Tom Miller • Holly Morris • Ricardo Pau-Llosa • Robert Stone • Jim Shepard • Isadora Tattlin • Anthony Trollope • Walter D. Wilcox

Cuba on My Mind

Author : Román De la Campa
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859847909
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Cuba on My Mind written by Román De la Campa and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the dual Cuban capitals of Havana and Miami to offer insight on the two Cubas.

Cuba

Author : Professor Jorge I Doma-Nguez
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674034280
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Cuba written by Professor Jorge I Doma-Nguez and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon publication in the late 1970s this book was the first major historical analysis of twentieth-century Cuba. Focusing on the way Cuba has been governed, and in particular on the way a changing elite has made claims to legitimate rule, it carefully examines each of Cuba's three main political eras: the first, from Independence in 1902 to the Presidency of Gerardo Machado in 1933; the second, under Batista, from 1934 until 1958; and finally, Castro's revolution, from 1959 to the present. Jorge Domínguez discusses the political roles played by interest groups, mass organizations, and the military. He also investigates the impact of international affairs on Cuba and provides the first printed data on many aspects of political, economic, and social change since 1959. He deals in depth with agrarian politics and peasant protest since 1937, and his concluding chapter on Cuba's present culture is a fascinating insight into a society which--though vitally important--remains mysterious to most readers in the United States. Cuba's role in international affairs is vastly greater than its size. The revolution led by Fidel Castro, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the missile crisis in 1962, the underwriting of revolution in Latin America and recently in Africa--all these events have thrust Cuba onto the modern world stage. Anyone hoping to understand this country and its people, and above all its changing systems of government, will find this book essential.

Dreaming in Cuban

Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307798003
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post

Cuba Confidential

Author : Ann Louise Bardach
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425428
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Cuba Confidential written by Ann Louise Bardach and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana. Famous to many Americans for her cover stories and media appearances, Ann Louise Bardach has been covering Cuba for a decade. She’s talked to the crooks, spooks and politicians who have made history, and to their hired assassins and confidants. Based on exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, his sister Juanita, his former brother-in-law Rafael Díaz-Balart, the family of Elián González, the friends and family of the legendary American fugitive Robert Vesco, the intrepid terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, and the inner circles of Jeb Bush and the late exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuba Confidential exposes the hardball take-no-prisoners tactics of the Cuban exile leadership, and its manipulation and exploitation by ten American presidents. Bardach homes in on Fidel Castro and his cronies, taking us closer than we’ve ever been—and on the militant exiles who have devoted their lives, with CIA connivance, to trying to eliminate him. From Calle Ocho to Juan Miguel González’s kitchen table in Cárdenas, from Guantánamo Bay to Union City to Washington, D.C., Ann Louise Bardach serves up an unforgettable portrait of Cuba and its exiles.

Cuba in Revolution

Author : Miguel A. Faria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Cuba in Revolution written by Miguel A. Faria and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Finding Manana

Author : Mirta Ojito
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143036602
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Finding Manana written by Mirta Ojito and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, moving memoir of prizewinning journalist and New York Times reporter Mirta Ojito and her departure from Cuba in the Mariel boatlift—an enduring story of a family caught up in the tumultuous politics of the twentieth century. Mirta Ojito was one teenager among more than a hundred thousand fellow refugees who traveled to Miami during the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift. Growing up, Ojito was eager to fit in and join Castro’s Young Pioneers, but as she grew older and began to understand the darker side of the Cuban revolution, she and her family began to aspire to a safer, happier life. When Castro opened Cuba’s borders for those who wanted to leave, her family was more than ready to go: they had been waiting for the opportunity for twenty years. Now an acclaimed reporter, Ojito tells her story and reckons with her past with all of the determination and intelligence—and the will to confront darkness—that carried her through the boatlift. In this stunning autobiography, she sets out to find the people who set this exodus in motion, including the Vietnam vet on whose boat, Mañana, she finally crossed the treacherous Florida Strait. In Finding Mañana, Ojito and tell the stories of the boatlift’s key players in superb and poignant detail—chronicling both individual lives and a major historical event.

Waiting for Snow in Havana

Author : Carlos Eire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743246415
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Snow in Havana written by Carlos Eire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-01-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154575
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) written by Ada Ferrer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; “readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope” (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other.

Cuba is a State of Mind

Author : P. W. Long
Publisher : blue ocean press / ARI
ISBN 13 : 4902837188
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Cuba is a State of Mind written by P. W. Long and published by blue ocean press / ARI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spiritual Traveler series provides a new type of travel writing that allows the reader to experience the consciousness of a nation. It gives future travelers to Cuba another perspective to consider. (Foreign Travel)

Cuba Information Manual

Author : Michael Anthony Bellows
Publisher : Kettle Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780615266916
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Cuba Information Manual written by Michael Anthony Bellows and published by Kettle Pub.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to Cuba that helps U.S. citizens make intelligent choices about traveling to Cuba with or without the required permit from the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. Provides tips from a veteran Cuba traveler. How to get there, where to stay, how to get around, changing money,dangers and annoyances, avoiding the Revolutionary police, political issues, about the communist government, unique Cuban laws, and social customs. Includes maps, an extensive reference section, illustrations, and color photos. Sanctioned by the Center for Cuban Studies in N.Y.C. Reviews available on Amazon.com.

Natural Cuba Natural

Author : Alfonso Silva Lee
Publisher : Panagaea Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Cuba Natural written by Alfonso Silva Lee and published by Panagaea Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first publication to extensively document the natural history of the Caribbean's largest, most diverse tropical island and archipelago. Cuba's remarkable number of endemic species - including the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird, minute frogs and boas, magnificent painted land snails, rare butterflies and orchids - contribute to the importance and beauty of Cuba and her rich fauna and flora depicted here."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Cuba on My Mind

Author : Roman De La Campa
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859843611
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Cuba on My Mind written by Roman De La Campa and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002-09-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving and personal account of the forty-three-year-old divide between Cuba and its exile population in the United States, Román de la Campa questions both sides of a family feud that is acutely reflective of its own experience. Taking the three migration waves of Cubans to the United States as a historical background to his own story, the author details the continuing rift between Havana and Miami and the shaping, in the light of globalization and post-socialism, of a Cuban national split which has obvious consequences for both countries.

Planet/Cuba

Author : Rachel Price
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784781223
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Planet/Cuba written by Rachel Price and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the strain of new forms of consumption. Planet/Cuba examines how art and literature have responded to a new moment, one both more globalized and less exceptional; more concerned with local quotidian worries than international alliances; more threatened by the depredations of planetary capitalism and climate change than by the vagaries of the nation’s government. Rachel Price examines a fascinating array of artists and writers who are tracing a new socio-cultural map of the island.

Cuba

Author : Inverna Lockpez
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 : 9781401222185
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Cuba written by Inverna Lockpez and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing in the promises of the Cuban Revolution, Sonya joins Castro's militia and becomes a medic, only to find herself imprisoned and tortured by her own comrades and later realizing that none of her efforts fall in line with Castro's regime.

85 Days in Cuba

Author : Brandon Valentine
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595393357
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book 85 Days in Cuba written by Brandon Valentine and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This travel memoir vividly portrays daily Cuban life in the fall of 2003, when the author visits his friend and learns much more than Spanish."--IUniverse website.

International Migration in Cuba

Author : Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271073675
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book International Migration in Cuba written by Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in Latin America. During the nineteenth century as a whole, more Spanish people migrated to Cuba than anywhere else in the Americas, and hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken to the island. The first decades of the twentieth century saw large numbers of immigrants and temporary workers from various societies arrive in Cuba. And since the revolution of 1959, a continuous outflow of Cubans toward many countries has taken place—with lasting consequences. In this book, the most comprehensive study of international migration in Cuba ever undertaken, Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields since the beginning of the colonial period. Drawing on Fernand Braudel’s concept of longue durée, transnational studies, perspectives on power, and other theoretical frameworks, the author places her analysis in a much wider historical and theoretical perspective than has previously been applied to the study of international migration in Cuba, making this a work of substantial interest to social scientists as well as historians.