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Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Island of Cuba written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226465675
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Political Essay on the Island of Cuba written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit to Cuba yielded observations that extended far beyond the natural world. This title presents a physical and cultural study of the island nation.
Author : David Ariosto
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250176980
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book This Is Cuba written by David Ariosto and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December" "Fascinating." —Forbes Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view. This is Cuba is a true story that begins in the summer of 2009 when a young American photo-journalist is offered the chance of a lifetime—a two-year assignment in Havana. For David Ariosto, the island is an intriguing new world, unmoored from the one he left behind. From neighboring military coups, suspected honey traps, salty spooks, and desperate migrants to dissidents, doctors, and Havana’s empty shelves, Ariosto uncovers the island’s subtle absurdities, its Cold War mystique, and the hopes of a people in the throes of transition. Beyond the classic cars, salsa, and cigars lies a country in which black markets are ubiquitous, free speech is restricted, privacy is curtailed, sanctions wreak havoc, and an almost Kafka-esque goo of Soviet-style bureaucracy still slows the gears of an economy desperate to move forward. But life in Cuba is indeed changing, as satellite dishes and internet hotspots dot the landscape and more Americans want in. Still, it’s not so simple. The old sentries on both sides of the Florida Straits remain at their posts, fists clenched and guarding against the specter of a Cold War that never quite ended, despite the death of Fidel and the hand-over of the presidency to a man whose last name isn’t Castro. And now, a crisis is brewing. In This Is Cuba, Ariosto looks at Cuba from the inside-out over the course of nine years, endeavoring to expose clues for what’s in store for the island as it undergoes its biggest change in more than half a century.
Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481461125
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Lion Island written by Margarita Engle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young man who became a champion of civil rights for those who could not speak for themselves.
Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813541891
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book An Island Called Home written by Ruth Behar and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the author's return to learn about and meet the people who are keeping Judaism alive in Cuba today.
Author : Ramiro Fernández
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811860536
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book I Was Cuba written by Ramiro Fernández and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, this work takes a look at Cuban history seen through the collection of Ramiro Fernandez, the world's largest archive of Cuban photos and ephemera.
Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154567
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
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 2022-06-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ambitious chronicle written for an era that demands a new reckoning with the island's past. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History reveals 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 influence of the United States on Cuba and 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. 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. --
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Island of Cuba written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Burleigh Kimball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Cuba, and the Cubans ; Comprising a History of the Island of Cuba, Its Present Social, Political, and Domestic Condition written by Richard Burleigh Kimball and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Price
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784781223
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
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.
Author : Elizabeth Newhouse
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Cuba written by Elizabeth Newhouse and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granted unprecedented access to this ethereal and enigmatic island, award-winning photographer David Alan Harvey presents more than a year of his fieldwork in this lavish and insightful, modern-day portrait of Cuba. 125 full-color photos.
Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816535868
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Cuba, Hot and Cold written by Tom Miller and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of renowned travel writer Tom Miller's best musings on the history and culture of Cuba"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Island of Cuba written by Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Robert Madden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Island of Cuba written by Richard Robert Madden and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mick Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0965900096
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (659 download)
Download or read book Cuba for the Misinformed written by Mick Winter and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years, the U.S. government and news media have misrepresented the truth about Cuba. This book brings together a fascinating array of fats and anecdotes about Cuba, its government,its people, and the actions the United States has taken against the ell-being of those people. Presented in an encyclopedic format.
Author : R. Behar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616151
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Portable Island written by R. Behar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellow Cubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How do Cubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World offers a stunning chorus of responses, gathering some of the most daring Cuban writers, artists, and thinkers to address the haunting effect of globalization on their own lives.
Author : Maturin M. Ballou
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics written by Maturin M. Ballou and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics is book by Maturin M. Ballou. It presents a political, historical and statistical account of Cuba. Excerpt: "The remarkable degree of interest expressed on all sides, at the present time, relative to the island of Cuba, has led the author of the following pages to place together in this form a series of notes from his journal, kept during a brief residence upon the island. To these he has prefixed a historical glance at the political story of Cuba, that may not be unworthy of preservation. The fact that the subject-matter was penned in the hurry of observation upon the spot, and that it is thus a simple record of what would be most likely to engage and interest a stranger, is his excuse for the desultory character of the work. So critically is the island now situated, in a political point of view, that ere this book shall have passed through an edition, it may be no longer a dependency of Spain, or may have become the theatre of scenes to which its former convulsions shall bear no parallel."
