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Book The Cuba Archive

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  • Author : Tria Giovan
  • Publisher : Damiani Limited
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9788862085458
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Cuba Archive written by Tria Giovan and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. Over the next six years she took twelve month-long trips, traversing the island numerous times, and making over 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba's history, literature and politics, she photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, rural landscapes, signs and billboards, and, most of all, the people, creating a compelling body of work that captures the subtleties and layered complexities of day-to-day Cuba born from complete engagement and informed perspective. Cuba The Elusive Island published by Harry N. Abrams in 1996--a collector's item--first brought together 100 of these images, along with a selection of writings by some of Cuba's most important writers. Twenty years later, Giovan re-edited the images, while working to preserve the original 6 x 9 color negatives. Through this intensive re-examination, a new more complex view of the historical significance of this work has emerged. Images previously disregarded or missed now stand out as a record of elements that no longer exist and one of a Cuba poised on the brink of change. The 120 selected images featured in The Cuba Archive , many of which have never been shown, reveal Cuba at a pivotal point in its storied and fascinating history, and bear witness to an inimitable, resilient and complex country and people.

Book Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives

Download or read book Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives written by Luis Marino Pérez and published by Washington, D.C. : Carnegie institution of Washington. This book was released on 1907 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Archives of Cuba

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  • Author : Louis A. Přez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Archives of Cuba written by Louis A. Přez and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book I Was Cuba

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  • Author : Ramiro Fernández
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2007-10-11
  • ISBN : 9780811860536
  • Pages : 358 pages

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.

Book Cuba  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

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. --

Book Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Cuba  1910 29

Download or read book Records of the Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs of Cuba 1910 29 written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Back Channel to Cuba

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  • Author : William M. LeoGrande
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2015-09-14
  • ISBN : 1469626616
  • Pages : 585 pages

Download or read book Back Channel to Cuba written by William M. LeoGrande and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh here present a remarkably new and relevant account, describing how, despite the intense political clamor surrounding efforts to improve relations with Havana, negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. They reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, that provides the historical foundation for the dramatic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba ties.

Book Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives Classic Reprint written by Luis Marino Perez and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives The mission to the Cuban archives, of which these pages are the outcome, was undertaken for the purpose of making known what materials, if any, existed in those repositories bearing upon the history of the United States. In addition to materials on the relations be tween that country and Cuba, there was a strong presumption, which the results have confirmed, that there might still be found at Havana portions of the Louisiana and Florida archives which were taken there in 1810, but removed to Spain (in part or in whole) in the years 1888 and 1889. Before presenting lists or calendars of the documents which were discovered, it seems proper, and indeed requisite to an understanding of the items composing the lists, that some account of the Cuban archives, their vicissitudes and their actual conditions should be given. The documents are in the Archivo Nacional at Havana, except a few, relating to the ecclesiastical history of Louisiana and the Floridas, which are in the archives of the bishopric of Havana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between Cuba and Other States  1910 29

Download or read book Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations Between Cuba and Other States 1910 29 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Cuba Company Archives

Download or read book Guide to the Cuba Company Archives written by University of Maryland, College Park. Libraries. Archives and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visions of Freedom

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  • Author : Piero Gleijeses
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1469609681
  • Pages : 673 pages

Download or read book Visions of Freedom written by Piero Gleijeses and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

Book Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Military Government of Cuba  Record Group 140

Download or read book Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Military Government of Cuba Record Group 140 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Materials in the National Archives Relating to Cuba

Download or read book Materials in the National Archives Relating to Cuba written by Seymour J. Pomrenze and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba  Cuban Papers  in the Archives of the North Carolina Historical Commission

Download or read book List of the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba Cuban Papers in the Archives of the North Carolina Historical Commission written by Historical Records Survey of North Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish documents, from 1777-1800, examining American expansion into the Southeast. Part of the Archives of the Indies, these documents were transferred to Seville in the 1880's from the archives at Havana, Cuba.

Book Conflicting Missions

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  • Author : Piero Gleijeses
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2011-03-01
  • ISBN : 0807861626
  • Pages : 573 pages

Download or read book Conflicting Missions written by Piero Gleijeses and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA--and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's major covert operation there. Based on unprecedented archival research and firsthand interviews in virtually all of the countries involved--Gleijeses was even able to gain extensive access to closed Cuban archives--this comprehensive and balanced work sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations. It revolutionizes our view of Cuba's international role, challenges conventional U.S. beliefs about the influence of the Soviet Union in directing Cuba's actions in Africa, and provides, for the first time ever, a look from the inside at Cuba's foreign policy during the Cold War. "Fascinating . . . and often downright entertaining. . . . Gleijeses recounts the Cuban story with considerable flair, taking good advantage of rich material.--Washington Post Book World "Gleijeses's research . . . bluntly contradicts the Congressional testimony of the era and the memoirs of Henry A. Kissinger. . . . After reviewing Dr. Gleijeses's work, several former senior United States diplomats who were involved in making policy toward Angola broadly endorsed its conclusions.--New York Times "With the publication of Conflicting Missions, Piero Gleijeses establishes his reputation as the most impressive historian of the Cold War in the Third World. Drawing on previously unavailable Cuban and African as well as American sources, he tells a story that's full of fresh and surprising information. And best of all, he does this with a remarkable sensitivity to the perspectives of the protagonists. This book will become an instant classic.--John Lewis Gaddis, author of We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Based on unprecedented research in Cuban, American, and European archives, this is the compelling story of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations, revolutionizes our view of Cuba's international role, and provides the first look from the inside at Cuba's foreign policy during the Cold War. -->