Cuba
In this second edition of the widely hailed Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Julia Sweig updates her concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation--and now includes material from her 2010 interview with Fidel ...
Culture and Customs of Cuba
Cuba continues to loom large in U.S. consciousness and politics. Culture and Customs of Cuba is a much-needed resource that gives students and other readers an in-depth view of our important island neighbor.
Back from the Future
Drawing on interviews, personal observations, and primary sources, this book demonstrates the need for a revisionist view of Cuba and, by implication, other Communist regimes.
Cuba on the Brink
An extraordinary examination of an international crisis, Cuba on the Brink illustrates the ongoing "Cuba problem," and will help guide our actions toward other countries deemed hostile to our national interest.
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba's Children
... Cuba: Twenty Years Later. New York: Smyrna Press, 1981. Raum, Tom. “Elián Fights Back before Congress.” Washington Post, 1 March 2000. Reed, Gail. “Flight of Fear.” In Cuba Update, 7–8. New York: Center for Cuban Studies, 1994. Regalado ...
Cuba
Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the ...
The Culture of Conflict in Modern Cuba
Officials often created monopolies which limited accountability, social mobility, fair play and economic development. This work traces this ethos, efforts to change it, and its manifestations in present-day Cuba.
Reciprocity with Cuba
... Cuba sugar factories . The number of sugar factories existing in Cuba to - day is estimated at 361 , whose location is as follows : Pinar del Rio , 20 ; Habana , 40 ; Matanzas , 118 ; Santa Clara , district of Sagua , 43 ; Cruces , 15 ...
Hierarchies at Home
This book destabilizes racialized and gendered assumptions about labour in Cuba and challenges traditional chronologies of 20th-century Cuban history.
U.S.–Cuba Relations
This book examines the history of United States foreign policy toward Cuba, focusing on critical junctures and recent strategic shifts.
Cuba Libre
As a work intended as concise supplementary reading for undergraduates, in the general pattern of Harlan Davidson’s American and European History Series, Paul Dosal’s Cuba Libre is a smashing success—relating the fascinating history ...
List of Documents in Spanish Archives Relating to the History of the United States, which Have Been Printed Or of which Transcripts are Preserved in American Libraries
... Cuba . DAH , Span . Doc . 41⁄2 pp . [ This date should possibly be August 12 , 1800. ] 4737 Feb. 21. San Marcos de Apalache . Portell to Casa Calvo ( no . 19 ) . AI , Pap . proc . de Cuba . DAH , Span . Doc . 1/2 p . [ Accompanies " Ca ...
Cuba under the Platt Amendment, 1902–1934
• Choice 1987 Outstanding Academic Book This book examines the early years of the Cuban Republic, launched in 1902 after the war with Spain.
Cuba's Primer - Castro's Earring Economy
... Cuba controls all the housing transactions in Cuba . Hernández said that he heard colleagues calling Colomé , jokingly , the Housing Minister . The web site of the Cuban Government shows the following information : Albelardo Colomé ...