Browse by Subject: History

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The Political Economy of the Drug Industry: Latin America and the International System

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Democracy and U.S. Policy in Latin America during the Truman Years

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Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society

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Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism, and Popular Mobilization in Colombia

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Slavery Without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society Since the 17th Century

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The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of Slave Trade, 1775-1810

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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..