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Book Bubonic plague in Cuba

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  • Author : Juan Guiteras
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book Bubonic plague in Cuba written by Juan Guiteras and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Epidemic Invasions

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  • Author : Mariola Espinosa
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2009-11-15
  • ISBN : 0226218139
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Epidemic Invasions written by Mariola Espinosa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. Originating in Cuba, the deadly plague inspired disease-control measures that not only protected U.S. trade interests but also justified the political and economic domination of the island nation from which the pestilence came. By focusing on yellow fever, Epidemic Invasions uncovers for the first time how the devastating power of this virus profoundly shaped the relationship between the two countries. Yellow fever in Cuba, Mariola Espinosa demonstrates, motivated the United States to declare war against Spain in 1898, and, after the war was won and the disease eradicated, the United States demanded that Cuba pledge in its new constitution to maintain the sanitation standards established during the occupation. By situating the history of the fight against yellow fever within its political, military, and economic context, Espinosa reveals that the U.S. program of sanitation and disease control in Cuba was not a charitable endeavor. Instead, she shows that it was an exercise in colonial public health that served to eliminate threats to the continued expansion of U.S. influence in the world.

Book Bubonic Plague in Cuba

Download or read book Bubonic Plague in Cuba written by Juan Guiteras and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Die in Cuba

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  • Author : Louis A. Pérez
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780807829370
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book To Die in Cuba written by Louis A. Pérez and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez, Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society." "In a study that spans the experiences of enslaved Africans and indentured Chinese in the colony, nationalists of the twentieth-century republic, and emigrants from Cuba to Florida following the 1959 revolution, Perez finds that the act of suicide was loaded with meanings that changed over time.

Book The Development of sanitation and charities in Cuba during the last sixteen years  1899 1914

Download or read book The Development of sanitation and charities in Cuba during the last sixteen years 1899 1914 written by José Antonio López del Valle and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuban Memory Wars

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  • Author : Michael J. Bustamante
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2021-02-10
  • ISBN : 1469662043
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Cuban Memory Wars written by Michael J. Bustamante and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba's turn to socialism made the prerevolutionary period look like paradise lost. Michael J. Bustamante unsettles this familiar schism by excavating Cubans' contested memories of the Revolution's roots and results over its first twenty years. Cubans' battles over the past, he argues, not only defied simple political divisions; they also helped shape the course of Cuban history itself. As the Revolution unfolded, the struggle over historical memory was triangulated among revolutionary leaders in Havana, expatriate organizations in Miami, and average Cuban citizens. All Cubans leveraged the past in individual ways, but personal memories also collided with the Cuban state's efforts to institutionalize a singular version of the Revolution's story. Drawing on troves of archival materials, including visual media, Bustamante tracks the process of what he calls retrospective politics across the Florida Straits. In doing so, he drives Cuban history beyond the polarized vision seemingly set in stone today and raises the prospect of a more inclusive national narrative.

Book The Cuba Review and Bulletin

Download or read book The Cuba Review and Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Times of Cuba

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 948 pages

Download or read book Times of Cuba written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Madhouse

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  • Author : Jennifer L. Lambe
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2016-12-22
  • ISBN : 1469631032
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Madhouse written by Jennifer L. Lambe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious institution and the highest echelons of Cuban politics. Across the sweep of modern Cuban history, she finds, Mazorra has served as both laboratory and microcosm of the Cuban state: the asylum is an icon of its ignominious colonial and neocolonial past and a crucible of its republican and revolutionary futures. From its birth, Cuban psychiatry was politically inflected, drawing partisan contention while sparking debates over race, religion, gender, and sexuality. Psychiatric notions were even invested with revolutionary significance after 1959, as the new government undertook ambitious schemes for social reeducation. But Mazorra was not the exclusive province of government officials and professionalizing psychiatrists. U.S. occupiers, Soviet visitors, and, above all, ordinary Cubans infused the institution, both literal and metaphorical, with their own fears, dreams, and alternative meanings. Together, their voices comprise the madhouse that, as Lambe argues, haunts the revolutionary trajectory of Cuban history.

Book The Black Death 1347 1350

Download or read book The Black Death 1347 1350 written by Cath Senker and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that the plague began in central Asia before it swept across Europe, killing one-third of the population? Raging disease wiped out whole towns. In a remote village in Norway, everyone died, except one little girl who survived for months alone. In this book, learn how fleas and rats spread the disease and how the plague ultimately benefited the poor who survived. Fascinating facts about medieval society and medicine are in this book. Timelines, a glossary, ideas for research, and suggestions for future reading are included in this gripping read about a medieval tragedy.

Book The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution

Download or read book The United States and the Origins of the Cuban Revolution written by Jules R. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jules Benjamin argues convincingly that modern conflicts between Cuba and the United States stem from a long history of U.S. hegemony and Cuban resistance. He shows what difficulties the smaller country encountered because of U.S. efforts first to make it part of an "empire of liberty" and later to dominate it by economic methods, and he analyzes the kind of misreading of ardent nationalism that continues to plague U.S. policymaking.

Book Cuba Before the World

Download or read book Cuba Before the World written by Manuel F. Alfonso and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Cuba

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  • Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-05-23
  • ISBN : 3732698793
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The History of Cuba written by Willis Fletcher Johnson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The History of Cuba by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Book Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World

Download or read book Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World written by Nükhet Varlik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.

Book Public Health Reports

Download or read book Public Health Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuba s Pursuit of Biological Weapons

Download or read book Cuba s Pursuit of Biological Weapons written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: