Caribbean category: 2932 books
La isla encallada
El Caribe colombiano en el archipiélago del Caribe
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 29, 2015
El Caribe está lejos de ser un conjunto de territorios uniformes en el campo de la cultura. Luego del énfasis en la búsqueda de puntos de encuentro, es hora de otorgar herramientas que permitan tener sobre aquel una mejor comprensión. La reinvención del Caribe colombiano pasa por hacerse las...
by Jaime Suchlicki
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
In Jaime Suchlickis engaging style, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond provides a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the Cuba of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In addition to its concise narrative history, CUBA details the current political climate, economy, and the regimes future. Suchlicki...
Insurgent Cuba
Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of...
Rebel Lands of Cuba
The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934–1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The book is a comparative history of twentieth-century Cuban campesinos in two regions in Cuba marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray. It explores the ways these differences articulated with state formation from the pre-revolutionary period of 1934-1959...
by Marial Iglesias Utset
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban...
Walking the Americas
1,800 Miles, Eight Countries, and One Incredible Journey from Mexico to Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, Walking the Americas was published in the UK in February alongside the release of Wood’s eponymous Channel 4 TV series, which reached over 2 million viewers per episode. It has also been longlisted for the Banff Mountain Book award for adventure travel.
All...
Listen, Yankee!
Why Cuba Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states—from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism.
Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban...
Our Woman in Havana
A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations...
by Fidel Castro, Jeffrey M. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliot and former Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally here contribute a lengthy, revealing interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro, discussing a wide-ranging series of topics dealing with local and international politics and economics, as well as the future of Cuba, the third world, Central and South America, and the United States.
by Eric Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional...
Seeds of Insurrection
Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient...
Back Channel to Cuba
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing...
by Laurent Dubois
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history
Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption....
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
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To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the “Pearl of the Antilles,”...