Download or read book The Port Havannah Paradox written by Rod Lewin and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitch Blaine, aviator extraordinaire, returns! In this third much-awaited novel in the series, Mitch Blaine and his learned sidekick Beyer have returned to their isolated retreat on Apache Lake in the Arizona desert, where a young Mexican girl has been ruthlessly tossed out of a low-flying aircraft. After saving her life, they are drawn into a battle of retribution with the same gang of thugs who attempted to slay her. Severely wounded in the ensuing fray, Beyer has unilaterally determined that it is time to go home. Now the intrepid duo has decided to fly back to Australia in their vintage PBY flying boat, the Wayward Wind. They plan a fuel stop in Vanuatu in the South Pacific to visit some old friends at Havannah Harbor-a repair base for the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet just prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea-on the island of Efate. Only thing is, it's cyclone season down there, and one of the most devastating storms that part of the world has ever known is heading right toward Vanuatu. When Blaine and Beyer arrive at the exact moment that the cyclone is battering the islands, they inadvertently fly into one of the most bizarre adventures they have yet encountered-and literally right into history!
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 Havana Lost written by Libby Fischer Hellmann and published by The Red Herrings Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Walled City written by Guadalupe Garcia and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once one of the most important port cities in the New World, Havana was a model for the planning and construction of other colonial cities. This book tells the story of how Havana was conceived, built, and managed and explores the relationship between colonial empire and urbanization in the Americas. Guadalupe García shows how the policing of urban life and public space by imperial authorities from the sixteenth century onward was explicitly centered on politics of racial exclusion and social control. She illustrates the importance of colonial ideologies in the production of urban space and the centrality of race and racial exclusion as an organizing ideology of urban life in Havana. Beyond the Walled City connects colonial urban practices to contemporary debates on urbanization, the policing of public spaces, and the urban dislocation of black and ethnic populations across the region"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Louisiana Politics and the Paradoxes of Reaction and Reform 1877 1928 written by Matthew J. Schott and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hollywood in Havana written by Megan Feeney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the turn of the twentieth century through the late 1950s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theaters three to a block in places, widely circulated silver screen fanzines, and terms like “cowboy” and “gangster” entering Cuban vernacular speech. Hollywood in Havana uses this historical backdrop as the catalyst for a startling question: Did exposure to half a century of Hollywood pave the way for the Cuban Revolution of 1959? Megan Feeney argues that the freedom fighting extolled in American World War II dramas and the rebellious values and behaviors seen in postwar film noir helped condition Cuban audiences to expect and even demand purer forms of Cuban democracy and national sovereignty. At the same time, influential Cuban intellectuals worked to translate Hollywood ethics into revolutionary rhetoric—which, ironically, led to pointed critiques and subversions of the US presence in Cuba. Hollywood in Havana not only expands our notions of how American cinema was internalized around the world—it also broadens our view of the ongoing history of US-Cuban interactions, both cultural and political.
Download or read book Harlem Haiti and Havana written by Martha Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State and Revolution in Cuba written by Robert Whitney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they are often glossed over in accounts that focus more heavily on the revolution of 1959. With this book, Robert Whitney accords much-needed attention to a critical stage in Cuban history. Closely examining the upheavals of the period, which included a social revolution in 1933 and a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista one year later, Whitney argues that the eventual rise of a more democratic form of government came about primarily because of the mass mobilization by the popular classes against oligarchic capitalism, which was based on historically elite status rather than on a modern sense of nation. Although from the 1920s to the 1940s politicians and political activists were bitterly divided over what "popular" and "modern" state power meant, this new generation of politicians shared the idea that a modern state should produce a new and democratic Cuba.
Download or read book Buena Vista in the Club written by Geoffrey Baker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaet&ón.
Download or read book Speed Up written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Traveler s Companion Guide to Cuba written by Kirsten Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are armchair dreaming or booking a flight, the Traveler's Companion guides deliver the best a country has to offer.-- Advice from a native -- our authors have the inside scoop on the easiest ways to travel, the best restaurants, the perfect places to stay.-- Lavish color photos take you there while you are still planning -- make the best choices in advance so you spend your vacation time discovering the wonders of your destination, not being disappointed by lackluster sights.-- Easy to use format -- clearly structured entries on where to stay, where to eat, and how to get there, guide you directly to the things you want to see so you spend less time with your nose in your guidebook and more time enjoying your destination.
Download or read book Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ISLA written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-03 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.
Download or read book The Passion For Jazz written by Leonard Feather and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990-08-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of jazz in the 1970s. The author gives a sense of the new paths jazz took as a powerful cultural force during that decade, both in the USA and abroad.
Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe written by P N Furbank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Defoe was one of the most prolific writers in English literature, however the canon of works attributed to him swelled from 100 to 570 titles between 1790 and the 1990s. Furbank and Owens provide a critical bibliography of Defoe's works, including evidences for ascription.
Download or read book The battle of Britishness written by Tony Kushner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study of migrant journeys to Britain begins with Huguenot refugees in the 1680s and continues to asylum seekers and east European workers today. Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner’s volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards. It is an essential tool for those wanting to understand why people come to Britain (or are denied entry) and how migrants have been viewed by state and society alike. The journeys covered vary from the famous (including the Empire Windrush in 1948) to the obscure, such as the Volga German transmigrants passing through Britain in the 1870s. While employing a broadly historical approach, Kushner incorporates insights from many other disciplines and employs a comparative methodology to highlight the importance of the symbolic as well as the physical nature of such journeys.
