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Book The Mambiland  Or Adventures of a  Herald  Correspondent in Cuba  by James J  O Kelly

Download or read book The Mambiland Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba by James J O Kelly written by James J. O'Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mambi land  Or  Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba

Download or read book The Mambi land Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba written by James J. O'Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mambi Land  or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba

Download or read book The Mambi Land or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba written by James O'Kelly and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Book The Mambi Land  Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba

Download or read book The Mambi Land Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba written by James J O'Kelly and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. RETURN TO THE SPANISH LINES. Adieu to the Mambi-Land--Capturing Wild Cattle--Night March in the Woods--Levying Contributions--Camped near the Spanish Outposts--An Unpleasant Rencontre--Arrival in Manzanillo--Presentation to Consul--Scene in Caballo Blanco--Visit the Governor of the Town--My Arrest--Sent to Fort Geron; --My Quarters--The Military Inquisition -- Brought before Court-martial at Night-- Alarmed--Four Hundred Thousand Dollars for Cespedes, Dead or Alive--Guarded at Sight--The Reign of Terror in Prison--Sentinel placed in my Cell--Government offers to bribe me--Arrival of British Gunboat--Spanish Authorities change Tactics--Bound with Ropes and shipped to Manzanillo. The moment at last arrived for taking leave of the Cuban patriots, who overwhelmed me with protestations of friendship and regard. It is wonderful in what a short time strong, hearty friendships grow up in the wild Mambi-Land, where the hollow conventionalities of civilized life are laid aside, and men abandon themselves to their natural impulses of love and hate with a fervor unknown to the dull, plodding life of civilization. It was not without sincere regret I parted from men whom I had learned to respect and admire. In my short stay among the Cuban patriots I formed many warm and lasting friendships. A guard of twenty men were selected to accompany me to a point close to the Spanish outposts. This dangerous service was intrusted to Captain Rodriguez, a young and dashing officer belonging to the staff of Modesto Diaz, and a great favorite with the general. General Diaz and his son, Fornaris y Cespedes, Tomas Estrada, and a number of Cuban officers rode with me for some miles from the camp, where we bade a final adieu to each other in a stirrup-cup...

Book The Mambi Land  Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba

Download or read book The Mambi Land Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba written by James J O'Kelly and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Mambi Land  Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Mambi Land Or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba Classic Reprint written by James J. O'Kelly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mambi-Land, or Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba Return to Santiago de Cuba - Interview with Morales de los Rios - Conditional Promise - Threat to shoot me as a Spy The Cuban Laborantes. 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 Cuba   s Wild East

Download or read book Cuba s Wild East written by Peter Hulme and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba’s Wild East: A Literary Geography of Oriente recounts a literary history of modern Cuba that has four distinctive and interrelated characteristics. Oriented to the east of the island, it looks aslant at a Cuban national literature that has sometimes been indistinguishable from a history of Havana. Given the insurgent and revolutionary history of that eastern region, it recounts stories of rebellion, heroism, and sacrifice. Intimately related to places and sites which now belong to a national pantheon, its corpus—while including fiction and poetry—is frequently written as memoir and testimony. As a region of encounter, that corpus is itself resolutely mixed, featuring a significant proportion of writings by US journalists and novelists as well as by Cuban writers.

Book Official Documents  Comprising the Department and Other Reports

Download or read book Official Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Documents  Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor  Senate  and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Official Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuba

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  • Author : Louis A. Pérez
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199301441
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Cuba written by Louis A. Pérez and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology--between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality--is fully investigated as a source of both national tension and competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice. Author Louis A. Pérez, Jr., integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give students a full and fascinating account of Cuba's history, focusing on its struggle for nationality.

Book To Die in Cuba

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  • Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 146960874X
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book To Die in Cuba written by Louis A. Pérez Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly 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. Analyzing the social context of suicide, he argues that in addition to confirming despair, suicide sometimes served as a way to consecrate patriotism, affirm personal agency, or protest injustice. The act was often seen by suicidal persons and their contemporaries as an entirely reasonable response to circumstances of affliction, whether economic, political, or social. Bringing an important historical perspective to the study of suicide, Perez offers a valuable new understanding of the strategies with which vast numbers of people made their way through life--if only to choose to end it. To Die in Cuba ultimately tells as much about Cubans' lives, culture, and society as it does about their self-inflicted deaths.

Book The Coolie Speaks

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  • Author : Lisa Yun
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-22
  • ISBN : 1592135838
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Coolie Speaks written by Lisa Yun and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, and probing the legal and philosophical questions raised by indenture, The Coolie Speaks offers the first critical reading of a massive testimony case from Cuba in 1874. From this case, Yun traces the emergence of a "coolie narrative" that forms a counterpart to the "slave narrative." The written and oral testimonies of nearly 3,000 Chinese laborers in Cuba, who toiled alongside African slaves, offer a rare glimpse into the nature of bondage and the tortuous transition to freedom. Trapped in one of the last standing systems of slavery in the Americas, the Chinese described their hopes and struggles, and their unrelenting quest for freedom. Yun argues that the testimonies from this case suggest radical critiques of the "contract" institution, the basis for free modern society. The example of Cuba, she suggests, constitutes the early experiment and forerunner of new contract slavery, in which the contract itself, taken to its extreme, was wielded as a most potent form of enslavement and complicity. Yun further considers the communal biography of a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises timely theoretical questions regarding race, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.

Book Afro Cuban Voices

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  • Author : Pedro Pérez Sarduy
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2020-03-23
  • ISBN : 0813065550
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Afro Cuban Voices written by Pedro Pérez Sarduy and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the forewords: "At a time when Cuba is undergoing immense economic and social changes, race becomes a kind of cultural litmus test for the national identity. . . . This anthology illustrates fully that it is possible to be both revolutionary and black in Cuba."—Manning Marable, Columbia University "The authors of Afro-Cuban Voices, also key actors in the new, unfolding dialogue about race in Cuba, make a seminal contribution through a forthright critique of ‘racial blind spots’ in official history and present-day racial discrimination."—James Early, director of cultural studies and communication, Smithsonian Institution From the series editor: "A courageous attempt to deal head-on with the issue of race in Cuba today. . . . Pérez Sarduy and Stubbs [seek to] put a human face on this debate, and do so well. The book will be received with relief by some and with frustration by others. Controversial it will undoubtedly be, since—as with most things Cuban—strong emotions are a given assumption. It will be an admirable beginning for the series and, it is hoped, will spark a much-needed debate in the United States on many aspects of the ‘Cuban question.’ It is about time."—John M. Kirk Based on the vivid firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba, this book of interviews looks at ways that race affects daily life on the island. While celebrating their racial and national identity, the collected voices express an urgent need to end the silences and distortions of history in both pre- and postrevolutionary Cuba. The 14 people interviewed—of different generations and from different geographic areas of Cuba—come from the arts, the media, industry, academia, and medicine. They include a doctor who calls for joint U.S.-Cuban studies on high blood pressure and a craftsman who makes the batá drums used in Yoruba worship ceremonies. All responded to four controversial questions: What is it like to be black in Cuba? How has the revolution made a difference? To what extent is that difference true today? What can be done? Exposing the contradictions of both racial stereotyping and cultural assimilation, their eloquent answers make the case that the issue of race in Cuba, no matter how hard to define, will not be ignored. A volume in the series Contemporary Cuba, edited by John M. Kirk

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Irish Autobiography

Download or read book A History of Irish Autobiography written by Liam Harte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Irish Autobiography is the first ever critical survey of autobiographical self-representation in Ireland from its recoverable beginnings to the twenty-first century. The book draws on a wealth of original scholarship by leading experts to provide an authoritative examination of autobiographical writing in the English and Irish languages. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of autobiography theory and criticism in Ireland, the History guides the reader through seventeen centuries of Irish achievement in autobiography, a category that incorporates diverse literary forms, from religious tracts and travelogues to letters, diaries, and online journals. This ambitious book is rich in insight. Chapters are structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and practitioners, each featuring a guide to recommended further reading. The volume's extensive coverage is complemented by a detailed chronology of Irish autobiography from the fifth century to the contemporary era, the first of its kind to be published.

Book The American Booksellers Guide

Download or read book The American Booksellers Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of State Librarian

Download or read book Report of State Librarian written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: