Browse by Subject: History

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Cuba's Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World

This book emphasizes two key aspects of Cuban foreign relations: Cuba's adjustment since the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, and the ongoing confrontation between Cuba and the United States. Erisman proposes that Cuba has always been highly sensitive

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Haitians and African Americans: A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope

In the first comprehensive study of the relations between Haiti and black America from the colonial period to the present, Leon Pamphile shows how historical ties between these two communities of the African diaspora have affected their respective histori

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The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba

Sherry Johnson's revisionist study contributes to a new understanding of colonial Cuban history in several ways. Most importantly, it challenges existing interpretations of Cuban history by advancing an alternative to the "sugar is forever" thesis..

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Cuba Today and Tomorrow: Reinventing Socialism

The Cuban Revolution has aroused passion and controversy for 40 years; this book explains the Revolution's extraordinary survival, as well as how and why it seems likely to continue in the new century. The book explores such issues as the impact of the

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Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica

Mimi Sheller's ground-breaking comparative study analyzes the struggle for freedom and democracy in two Caribbean societies in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. Pairing the revolutionary Republic of Haiti with the British colony of Jamaica, the

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U.S. Protestant Missions in Cuba: From Independence to Castro

Following the end of the Spanish-Cuban-American war in 1898, the U.S. Protestant Church embarked on a religious mission in Cuba that evolved into a zealous secular crusade to reconstruct Cuban society. The church's collision course with Cuba's

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The Cuban Democratic Experience: The Auténtico Years, 1944-1952

Considers the years 1944-1952 when Cubans enjoyed a functioning democracy, freedom of expression, and an artistic flowering under the administrations of Ramon Grau San Martin and Carols Prio Socarras, both freely elected leaders of the Cuban Revolutionary

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Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program

Account of the covert humanitarian effort known as Operation Pedro Pan (1960-1962) in which 14,048 Cuban children were airlifted into the U.S. Explores US role as well as the aftermath of the children's separation from parents forced to remain in Cuba.

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The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion

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The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America