Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
by Cirilo Villaverde
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Cirilo Villaverde (1812-1894). Cuba.Estudió en La Habana en el Seminario de San Carlos donde se graduó de Bachiller en Leyes, más tarde practicó la docencia y el periodismo.En La Habana asistió a la Tertulia de Domingo del Monte y publicó en la Gaceta Cubana su novela La joven de la Flecha de...
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Redactado en 1932 por Jorge Jorge Mañach, Joaquín Martínez Sáenz, Francisco Ichaso y Juan Andrés Lliteras, algunos ven en este documento, clave en la historia de Cuba, la influencia del Manifiesto fascista de 1919 obra de Marinetti y Alceste de Ambris.El ABC contó entre sus miembros con hombres...
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
La Constitución de Panamá de 1972 fue promulgada por Omar Torrijos. Este texto incluye además las reformas 1978, 1983 y las enmiendas de 1993.
by Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo (Condesa de Merlin)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Los esclavos en las colonias españolas análiza esta práctica desde la perspectiva de la condesa de Merlin, nacida en una familia cubana propietaria de esclavos. Este libro fue escrito en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, en un momento en que la economía de Cuba generaba enormes beneficios mediante...
by José Rizal y Alonso
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
El consejo de los dioses refleja las convicciones de Rizal sobre el hispanismo. La obra dramática de Rizal se limita a dos obras teatrales, cada una de un acto que comprende una presentación de más o menos treinta minutos. Fueron escritas cuando el autor tenía diecinueve y estudiaba en la Universidad...
by Pétrone, Apulée, Désiré Nisard
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Platon, examinant la nature de toutes les choses, et principalement celle des êtres animés, les a divisés en trois classes : il a cru qu’il y avait des dieux supérieurs, des dieux intermédiaires, et des dieux inférieurs.
Il les a distingués...
The Cuba Project
Castro, Kennedy, and the FBI's Tamale Squad
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A sexy, shoot-em-up telling of the CIA and FBI's attempts to take control of Castro's Cuba before and during the Kennedy administration, Pavia's colorful account reveals high-stakes bumbling and wishful thinking on the part of U.S. intelligence and diplomatic officials. The story features a bold cast...
Living Santería
Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in...
The Armageddon Letters
Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the...
The Myth of José Martí
Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of their identity and the character of the state, from Cuba's last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921....
Cuba Libre!
Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them.
Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956–1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara;...
Measures of Equality
Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba's multiracial...
The Quality of Home Runs
The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality...