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Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation

The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912

by Manuel Barcia, Matt Childs, Willaim F. Santiago-Valles
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019

Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation offers a new perspective on black political life in Cuba by analyzing the time between two hallmark Cuban events, the Aponte Rebellion of 1812 and the Race War of 1912. In so doing, this anthology provides fresh insight into the ways in which Cubans practiced...
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Fire and Spice

Parsi Cookery

by Joyce Westrip, Jane Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

The Parsis are descendants of the Zoroastrians who left Persia 1,300 years ago and settled along India's western coast. Their aromatic cuisine, which combines the sophistication of Persian and Middle Eastern cooking with the heat and spice of the subcontinent's, is one of Asia's last great culinary...
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Sugar and Railroads

A Cuban History, 1837-1959

by Alejandro Garcia, Oscar Zanetti
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied. This English translation of the prize-winning Caminos para el azucar traces the story of railroads in Cuba from their introduction in the nineteenth century through...
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The Merchant of Havana

The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive

by Stephen Silverstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred. In this period of change, two seemingly disparate, yet nevertheless intertwined, ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism...
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by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

La Constitución de la República Dominicana de 1994 fue promulgada el 14 de agosto de ese año, durante el mandato de Joaquín Balaguer, tras una grave crisis electoral. Se dispuso nuevamente la no reelección presidencial, así como la reducción de cuatro a solo dos años el período presidencial de Balaguer. Este hecho fue conocido en la historia como el Pacto por la Democracia.
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by Rubén Darío
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016

Tras el período chileno (1886-1889) con Azul..., vino el centroamericano (1889-1993). Darío escribe entonces los poemas que serán incluidos en una obra de gran importancia para el modernismo: Prosas profanas. Sobre este libro Rubén Darío escribió en su Autobiografía:Prosas profanas, cuya sencillez...
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by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent...
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Blood Money

The Scammer and The Ex-Slave Owner

by Crystal Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014

Excerpt From Booklet Christianity despite its doctrines if not meddled with African religious practices is largely impotent. Even though Jamaican laws are created from the influences of Christian principles, many people often in secrecy are drawn to Obeah because of its ready actual and physical...
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by Térence, Désiré Nisard
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015

MI. Vous allez bien, Déméa ? j’en suis ravi. DE. Ah ! vous voici fort à propos, je vous cherchais. MI. Pourquoi cet air soucieux ? DE. Quoi ! vous qui vous êtes chargé de notre Eschine, vous me demandez pourquoi j’ai l’air soucieux ? MI. (à part) Ne l’avais-je pas dit ? (haut) (85) Qu’a-t-il donc fait ?
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Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba

Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828

by Paul Niell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the islands first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havanas central...
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State of Ambiguity

Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic

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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014

Cuba's first republican era (1902–1959) is principally understood in terms of its failures and discontinuities, typically depicted as an illegitimate period in the nation's history, its first three decades and the overthrow of Machado at best a prologue to the "real" revolution of 1959....
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Identity and Ideology in Haiti

The Children of Sans Souci, Dessalines/Toussaint, and Pétion

by Paul C. Mocombe
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the...
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In Defiance of Boundaries

Anarchism in Latin American History

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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

Choice Outstanding Academic Title "State-of-the-art yet accessible analyses that significantly expand understanding of the role of anarchism in Latin America. . . . Will long be a standard text that provides [an] important reference for scholars and students of labor and social movement history."--Choice...
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by Lillian Guerra
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

A leading scholar sheds light on the experiences of ordinary Cubans in the unseating of the dictator Fulgencio Batista In this important and timely volume, one of today’s foremost experts on Cuban history and politics fills a significant gap in the literature, illuminating how Cuba’s electoral...
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