Caribbean category: 2932 books
Guatemala - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Bolivia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a...
Planet/Cuba
Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era
Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed...
Havana beyond the Ruins
Cultural Mappings after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international...
by GradBrazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Ebook Benefits:Find the right university for youHow to draft an English Reference LetterList of professors in BrazilScholarship opportunities for you in BrazilHow to draft a Lattes ProfileHow to draft a Portuguese Research Cover LetterList of universities in BrazilThis is your essential, easy...
Life and Death in the Andes
On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains.
The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest...
by Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies...
The Paraguay Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a dearth of serious scholarship or journalism about the country. Going a long way toward redressing this...
The Bolivia Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Bolivia Reader provides a panoramic view, from antiquity to the present, of the history, culture, and politics of a country known for its ethnic and regional diversity, its rich natural resources and dilemmas of economic development, and its political conflict and creativity. Featuring both classic...
Castro's Secrets
Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence and security services, long-buried secrets of...
Cuba Libre
A 500-Year Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus’s first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive overview for all readers seeking to go beyond...
Fidel Castro
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
FIDEL CASTRO
August 13, 1926 November 26, 2016.
A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
--Fidel Castro
From revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring....
by José Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, Rafael Marquese
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the “second slavery.” The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing...
Cuba in Splinters
Eleven Stories from the New Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Think Cuba, you’re likely to think bearded revolutionaries in fatigues. Salsa. Sugar cane.Rock ‘n’ roll, zombies, drugs anomie and angst do not generally figure in our mental images of a country that’s assumed an outsized place in the American imagination. But fresh from the tropics,...