Author: Lars Schoultz
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: cuban, states, revolution, united, republic, little, infernal
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 080783260X
ISBN-13: 9780807832608
Cuba has regularly given Washington a headache, Lars Schoultz observes in his comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Seeking relief, even the most patient U.S. officials have often been tempted to repeat what an exasperated President Theodore Roosevelt told a friend in 1906: "I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic that I would like to wipe its people off the face of the earth." Certainly that has been true since 1959, when a group of rebels led by Fidel Castro ousted Fulgencio Batista, a dictator known for his friendly ties to the United States,
Authors:Judith Bettelheim, Fernando Ortiz,
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publisher
Keywords: cuban, culture, afro, century, festivals
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1558762442
ISBN-13: 9781558762442
"The essay "The Afro-Cuban Festival ’Day of the Kings"’ by Fernando Ortiz, founder of Afro-Cuban studies, describes how, as in Brazil, Catholic priests and the colonial government as early as 1573 allowed and encouraged the African slaves to celebrate Epiphany, the Festival of the Three Kings...Free people joined in and the dances, music and costumes paraded by the various eyewitnesses demonstrate how early and how immense were the African contributions to what was to become the carnival of the African Diaspora. "Bettelheim’s second essay, The Tumba Francesa and Tajona of San
Author: Raymond Garthoff
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: revised, cuban, soviet, souces, revelations, amp, include, missile, crisis, reflections, new
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1989-06-02
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0815730535
ISBN-13: 9780815730538
Author: Enrico Mario Santi
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Keywords: cuban, studies, pittsburgh
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-03-11
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0822940868
ISBN-13: 9780822940869
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
Authors:Lisandro Perez, Uva De Aragon,
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: cuban, studies, pittsburgh
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-03-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0822941759
ISBN-13: 9780822941750
The essays, research notes, book reviews, and bibliography in this volume continue the multidisciplinary journal’s tradition as the premier publication in the field. In addition to four articles on Cuban literature-focusing on the poetry of Amando Fernández and Ena Lucía Portela, the novels of Roberto G. Fernández, and the "dirty realism" of Pedro Juan Gutierrez-there are essays examining the political afterlife of Eduardo Chibás, the spread and prevention of AIDS among Cuban-American women, and the Cuban Constitutions promulgated over the past forty years. A research note based upon
Authors:Lisandro Perez, Uva De Aragon,
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: cuban, studies, pittsburgh
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2001-03-22
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0822941384
ISBN-13: 9780822941385
Perez, Lisandro (ED), & Uva de Aragon (Asso. Ed.)
Author: Louis A. Jr. Perez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Keywords: cuban, studies, pittsburgh
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0822943131
ISBN-13: 9780822943136
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 38 includes essays on the politics of liberation, including: the competing strands of liberalis
