Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
by Desi Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Author Desi Sanchez, a native of Cuba, was twenty-two years old when the Bay of Pigs incident took place there in 1961. He had made the decision to side against Fidel Castro long before the confrontation and served as a merchant marine in the SS Houston during the invasion. In 2010, Desi Sanchez received...
Confederate Patriot, Journalist, and Poet:
The Multifaceted Life of José Agustín Quintero
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
José Agustín Quintero (1829-1885) was a Cuban American from New Orleans, Louisiana who skillfully and energetically represented the Confederacy in northeastern Mexico during the Civil War. This dynamic multilingual leader helped coordinate the defensive plans necessary to protect the Texas border and...
by Yoani Sanchez
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Yoani Sánchez escreve um dos blogs mais visitados do mundo, Generación Y, com vários milhões de acessos mensais, mas quase não consegue ser lida em Cuba, onde mora com seu marido Reinaldo Escobar e seu filho adolescente Teo. Quando eleita pela revista Time uma das mulheres mais influentes do...
Fighting over Fidel
The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War—and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who...
Cuba Loves Baseball
A Photographic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
According to the New York Times, Cuba is at an historic turning point. As Cuba catches up with political and economic changes, baseball will inevitably catch up and change as well. In Cuba Loves Baseball, photographer Ira Block, who has spent the past three years photographing the culture of Cuba...
Cuba's Baseball Defectors
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers in Major League Baseball (MLB) has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, American League rookie-of-the-year José Abreu, home...
Intimations of Modernity
Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Louis A. Perez Jr.'s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture...
Exporting Revolution
Cuba's Global Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
In her new book, Exporting Revolution, Margaret Randall explores the Cuban Revolution's impact on the outside world, tracing Cuba's international outreach in health care, disaster relief, education, literature, art, liberation struggles, and sports. Randall combines personal observations and interviews...
by Crystal Evans
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
If you love Every Man Deserves a Good Jacket,then you are going to love Ghetto Slam. Real Jamaican story. Fun, laughter and life.
Impossible Returns
Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical...
Dark Beyond Darkness
The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, among the world’s foremost authorities on the Cuban missile crisis, synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project on the most dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible, and written with their usual flair and wit,...
Madhouse
Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as...
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba
Passion, Politics, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history...
The Louis A. Pérez Jr. Cuba Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes The War of 1898, On Becoming Cuban, and Cuba in the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Louis A. Perez Jr. is one of the most influential historians of Cuba. Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook edition, this three-volume set brings together three of Perez's most acclaimed works on Cuba and its relations to the United States.
This Omnibus Ebook contains:
The...