Download or read book Havana 500 Anniversary Habana 500 Aniversario written by Andres R Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAVANA'S HISTORY AT A GLANCE: San Cristóbal de La Habana was founded in 1519. The city began as a small collection of huts that eventually became the Spanish Empire's main naval station in the world. La Habana became a thriving, entrepreneurial port, the Caribbean's lighthouse-city, within the colonial Spanish Caribbean, due to its excellent harbor and strategic position facing the Gulf Stream. In 1553, Havana became the island's capital. In the 16th century and beginning of the 17th the city was attacked and besieged on several occasions by French, British and Dutch pirates, which catalyzed the construction of defenses, including massive walls. Its occupation by the British in 1762 led to Havana being exchanged for Florida, an indication of the high value the King of Spain placed on it. The King ordered the reinforcement of its fortifications to the highest possible level. Havana thus became the best protected of the ports in Spanish America. By 1810 the Spanish Main was imploding, and Havana ceased to be a must-stop trading post. Cuba remained part of Spain until 1898, perhaps because of its amazing wealth, its siege fortress tradition and extreme militarization. The country's destiny after 1898 was closely linked to the United States. As the largest of the islands in continental proximity between the subtropics and the tropics, and between English and Spanish America, Cuba was surrounded and affected by different socio-political trends. All this adds exoticism to Havana's urban culture. Its architecture includes buildings of great visual and cultural impact: Castillo del Morro (Morro Castle), Palacio del Segundo Cabo (Palace of the Second Corporal), Palacio de los Capitanes Generales (Captains-General Palace) or the Capitolio (Capitol Building). Havana, the "Paris of the Caribbean," was destined to become a place of refuge, a creative, hospitable, open and cosmopolitan city. As sweat turned into stone and mortar, a local way life, open to the world, became the distinguished trait of Habaneros as good hosts. On its flagpoles would wave proudly the flags of Spain, Britain, the U.S., and finally, Cuba. The sense of Cuban nationality was built around the concept of Havana, as presaged by the mass conducted at the site called El Templete in 1519. Perhaps more than a nationality, what the old stones of Havana exude is global universality.
Download or read book Habana 500 Years of Being Awesome Journal written by Latin America Latin America Focus and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havana, Cuba Journals Always Bring a Smile! Softcover small, professionally designed lightweight notebook. Habana - 500 Years of Being Awesome saying, anniversary art with the date of November 16, 1519 to celebrate Havana's 500th birthday! Use for any celebration event. Unique! Inspirational! Use as a writer's journal, office exchange party gift, or for the desk of any academic University cigar lover teacher. Perfect for everyday notes or DIY (Do It Yourself) log book. Dimensions: Small travel size 8x5 inches (20.32x12.7 cm). Interior: 108 pages / 54 sheets. - Contains 100 lined pages + 8 plain blank end doodle note pages for drawings or tear away. A total of 108 thick white paper pages. - Regulation college ruled lines (medium width) Binding: Durable trade paperback binding (perfect bound), works well for taking notes, journaling, one subject school assignment, or a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) diary planner. Bound similar to books found in your local library. Cover: Full color soft cover paperback has a tough construction with glossy print. Artwork: Cover art chosen from the best images and photos from original works of a professional graphic artist. Gift Basket Stuffers: Part of our Latin America Focus gift accessories collection. (Please use Amazon search box to find matching clothing, office, mugs, water bottles and other home products with this design.) Record your travel memories, training thought quotes, lesson reminders, or success stories. Perfect gift for patriotic Cuban national, world traveler, Cuba tourist, street painter artist, architect, Spanish teacher, or travel study abroad student volunteer. Fun souvenir or novelty memorabilia! Add your own personal note on the inside cover to make this a custom personalized gift.
Download or read book La Habana written by Mauricio Vicent and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 2020 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901 2000 written by Thomas Michael and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 2417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impressive in size, scope and detail unparalleled in the market, the 2020 Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, provides the most compelling and complete catalog to 20th Century coins in the world. You've come to rely on this mammoth reference for the most up-to-date pricing and coin detail, as well as the most complete and insightful review of available and collectable world coins. A worldwide network of 120 experts continues to uncover collector coin issues never before published. For the collector or researcher attempting to identify world coins, this is the perfect single source. Inside this one-of-a-kind catalog, you'll find: • One million accurate coin prices--empowering you to make informed buying or selling decisions. • MS65 and PR65 values for much of the catalog • Detailed coin information unmatched in the hobby, making identification a snap • 60,000+ images, making the catalog the most visual reference on the market • Globally accepted KM reference numbers key to identification What's more, coins struck in gold, platinum and silver are detailed with: • Total coin weight • Fineness • Actual precious metal weight
Download or read book America s Forgotten Colony written by Michael E. Neagle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba (1902–58). This transnational study challenges the notion that US territorial ambitions waned after the nineteenth century. Many Americans, anxious about a 'closed' frontier in an industrialized, urbanized United States, migrated to the Isle and pushed for agrarian-oriented landed expansion well into the twentieth century. Their efforts were stymied by Cuban resistance and reluctant US policymakers. After decades of tension, however, a new generation of Americans collaborated with locals in commercial and institutional endeavors. Although they did not wield the same influence, Americans nevertheless maintained a significant footprint. The story of this cooperation upsets prevailing conceptions of US domination and perpetual conflict, revealing that US-Cuban relations at the grassroots were not nearly as adversarial as on the diplomatic level at the dawn of the Cuban Revolution.
Download or read book Cuban Studies Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography on Cuban Women in the Twentieth Century written by Nelson P. Valdés and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jose Raul Capablanca written by Miguel A. Sánchez and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete and thorough biography of Jose Raul Capablanca, one of the greatest players in the history of chess. Beginning with his family background, birth, childhood and introduction to the game in Cuba, it examines his life and play as a young man; follows his evolution as a player and rise to prominence, first as challenger and then world champion; his loss of the title to Alekhine and his efforts to recapture the championship in the last years of his too-short life. What emerges is a portrait of a complex man with far-ranging interests and concerns, in stark contrast to his robotic reputation as "the chess machine." Meticulously researched, utilizing many sources available only in Capablanca's home country, it puts truth to legend regarding a man who stood astride the chess world in of its most dynamic and dramatic eras. Numerous games and diagrams complement the text, as do a wealth of photographs.
Download or read book Cuba s Repressive Machinery written by Sarah A. DeCosse and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the European Union
Download or read book Havana written by Joseph L. Scarpaci and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and redesigned, this book assesses nearly 500 years of urban development and planning in Havana, paying particular attention to the city's rich blend of Spanish-Cuban-Latin American-North American architecture and design.
Download or read book Latin America and the United States written by Robert H. Holden and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together the most important documents on the history of the relationship between the United States and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. This second edition features updated selections on current trends, including key new documents on immigration, regional integration, indigenous political movements, democratization, and economic policy.
Download or read book Latin America written by Robert T. Buckman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish written by John Butt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
