Download or read book Essays on Cuban History written by Louis A. Pérez and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of immense utility to those who are, or plan to become, students and scholars of Cuban history and society. . . . Both an overview and a handbook combined into one accessible, well-written volume."--Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan Reflecting three decades of study of one of the most respected scholars of Cuba in the Unied States, these essays examine some of the central issues of historical research of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuba. The first section sets in relief many of the principal themes of Cuban studies, including Protestant missionary activity, the U.S. interventions in 1898, Cuban emigration to the United States, and the development of the Cuban armed forces after 1959. The second section examines the historical literature itself, especially works written in Cuba and the United States in the last thirty-five years. It looks at the trends in the literature, with emphasis on the ways that historical writing has arrived at an understanding of the Cuban past. The third section offers a guide to some of the larger research collections, specifically those repositories of important manuscript collections and archival records relating to Cuba. It includes a description of the Cuban National Archives, missionary manuscript collections, and records of the U.S. government. Contents Part I. History Intervention and Collaboration: The Politics of Cuban Independence, 1898-1899 Cubans in Tampa: From Exiles to Immigrants, 1892-1901 The Imperial Design: Politics and Pedagogy in Occupied Cuba, 1899-1902 North American Protestant Missionaries in Cuba and the Culture of Hegemony, 1898-1920 Reminiscences of a "Lector": Cuban Cigar Workers in Tampa Ybor City Remembered Army Politics in Socialist Cuba, 1959-1969 Part II. Historiography Scholarship and the State: Notes on History of the Cuban Republic U.S.-Cuban Relations: A Survey of Twentieth-Century Historiography In the Service of the Revolution: Two Decades of Cuban Historiography, 1959-1979 The Cuban Revolution after Twenty-Five Years History, Historiography, and Cuban Studies Part III. Research The Archivo Nacional de Cuba Record Collections of the Cuban National Archives La Guerra Libertadora Cubana de los Treinta A�os, 1868-1898 Cuba Materials in the Bureau of Insular Affairs Library Protestant Missionaries in Cuba Research Perspectives on the Cuban Revolution: A Twenty-Five-Year Assessment Louis A. P�rez, Jr., is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Among his many books are Slaves, Sugar, and Colonial Society: Travel Accounts of Cuba, 1801-1899, Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy, 1770s-1980s, Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution, and Cuba Under the Platt Amendment, 1902-1934, which received a Choice outstanding academic book award.
Download or read book Race in Cuba written by Esteban Morales Domínguez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young militant in the 26th of July Movement, Esteban Morales Domínguez participated in the overthrow of the Batista regime and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionaries, he understood, sought to establish a more just and egalitarian society. But Morales Dominguez, an Afro-Cuban, knew that the complicated question of race could not be ignored, or simply willed away in a post-revolutionary context. Today, he is one of Cuba’s most prominent Afro-Cuban intellectuals and its leading authority on the race question. Available for the first time in English, the essays collected here describe the problem of racial inequality in Cuba, provide evidence of its existence, constructively criticize efforts by the Cuban political leadership to end discrimination, and point to a possible way forward. Morales Dominguez surveys the major advancements in race relations that occurred as a result of the revolution, but does not ignore continuing signs of inequality and discrimination. Instead, he argues that the revolution must be an ongoing process and that to truly transform society it must continue to confront the question of race in Cuba.
Download or read book Essays in Cuban Intellectual History written by R. Rojas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known essayist and Cuban historian Rafael Rojas presents a collection of his best work, one which focuses on - and offers alternatives to - the central myths that have organized Cuban culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Rojas explores the most important themes of Cuban intellectual history, including the legacy of José Martí, the cultural effect of the war in 1898, the construction of a national canon of Cuban literature, the works of classical intellectuals of the republican period, the literary magazine Orígenes, the ideological impact of the Cuban Revolution, and the possibilities of a democratic transition in the island at the beginning of the twenty-firstcentury.
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro written by Maurice Halperin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Revolution in Cuba written by Herbert Lionel Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essay of the Cuban History written by Emilio Díaz and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 435 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.
Download or read book Cuba in the World the World in Cuba written by Duccio Basosi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolutionary Cuba written by Luis Martínez-Fernández and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in more than three decades to offer a complete and chronological history of revolutionary Cuba, including the years of rebellion that led to the revolution. Beginning with Batista’s coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and bringing the reader to the present-day transformations initiated by Raúl Castro, Luis Martínez-Fernández provides a balanced interpretive synthesis of the major topics of contemporary Cuban history. Expertly weaving the myriad historic, social, and political forces that shaped the island nation during this period, Martínez-Fernández examines the circumstances that allowed the revolution to consolidate in the early 1960s, the Soviet influence throughout the latter part of the Cold War, and the struggle to survive the catastrophic Special Period of the 1990s after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. He tackles the island’s chronic dependence on sugar production, which started with the plantations centuries ago and continues to shape culture and society. He analyzes the revolutionary pendulum that continues to swing between idealism and pragmatism, focusing on its effects on the everyday lives of the Cuban people, and—bucking established trends in Cuban scholarship—Martínez-Fernández systematically integrates the Cuban diaspora into the larger discourse of the revolution. Concise, well written, and accessible, this book is an indispensable survey of the history and themes of the socialist revolution that forever changed Cuba and the world.
Download or read book Insurgent Cuba written by Ada Ferrer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency. Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy.
Download or read book Essays on Cuban Music written by Peter Manuel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study on Cuban music in the English language. This volume consists of thirteen articles written by nine authors, including four Cuban scholars and five North American ethnomusicologists. The articles by Cuban scholars, translated from largely out-of-print publications, constitute a selection of some of the best Cuban research on their island's music, and present a set of perspectives which complement those of the North American authors. The articles cover such areas as descriptions of the Afro-Haitian derived tumba francesa, the traditional Afro-Cuban rumba, and the rural punto, as cultivated by peasants of Hispanic descent; aspects of the music bureaucracy in contemporary Cuba; the American music industry's dissemination of Cuban-derived salsa in New York City; Afro-Cuban cult music; the history and current status of charanga dance bands; and more.
Download or read book Looking at Cuba written by Rafael Hernández Rodríguez and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rafael Hernandez, one of the most visible intellectuals living and writing in Cuba today, addresses such controversies as the current social diversity brought about by socialist policies, the presence of well-educated new generations, and the emergence of growing inequality that accompanied and has followed the crisis of the 1990s. He also discusses the role played by Fidel Castro in this transitional period; Cuban foreign relations; the revival of religious practices on the island; the new debate over racial prejudice and discrimination; and the new environment for artistic freedom of expression."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The History of Havana written by Dick Cluster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city, and the first to be co-authored by a Cuban and an American. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, Cluster and Hernández explore the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies. The authors bring together conflicting images of a city that melds cultures and influences to create an identity that is distinctly Cuban.
Download or read book The United States Cuba and Castro written by William Appleman Williams and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
