Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
Breaking the Chains, Forging the Nation
The Afro-Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812-1912
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...
Sugar and Railroads
A Cuban History, 1837-1959
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...
The Merchant of Havana
The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
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...
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
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.
by Rubén Darío
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
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...
Blood Money
The Scammer and The Ex-Slave Owner
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...
by Térence, Désiré Nisard
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
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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 ?
Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba
Classicism and Dissonance on the Plaza de Armas of Havana, 1754-1828
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...
State of Ambiguity
Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic
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....
Identity and Ideology in Haiti
The Children of Sans Souci, Dessalines/Toussaint, and Pétion
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...
In Defiance of Boundaries
Anarchism in Latin American History
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...
by Lillian Guerra
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
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...
Revolution within the Revolution
Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase's history...
by Melina Pappademos
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and culture...