Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books

Fidel Castro had ruled the island of Cuba for fifty-two years when ill health forced him to step down in 2008. Over the course of that time, he changed Cuba from a republic to a communist state and became one of the most divisive leaders in the second half of the twentieth century. For some, he is...

Fidel Castro is a dynamic and charismatic leader, who has led Cuba through success and failures since 1959. Son of a rich landowner, he became a radical revolutionary who attempted to overthrow the government in 1956 with a tiny band of followers. Using propaganda and subversion as much as sudden...

Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors...

Bretos unfolds the Matanzas story from the aboriginal Tainos to the coming of revolution with solid research, wit, clarity, and the kind of vivid detail that can come only from an insider. But he also deftly inserts Matanzas into a larger picture. More than local history, this original work is Cuban history from a local perspective.

From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism...

Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution....

Benny More (1919-1963) was one of the giants at the center of the golden age of Cuban music. Arguably the greatest singer ever to come from the island, his name is still spoken with reverence and nostalgia by Cubans and Cuban exiles alike. Unable to read music, he nevertheless wrote more than...

Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha cha. In her history of music and race in midcentury America,...

Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything...

El libro de las parodias es una consecuencia natural de haber nacido en Cuba, durante mi adolescencia los amigos no nos veíamos en discotecas, bares o cafés. La Biblioteca nacional era nuestro lugar más habitual de encuentro; de manera que mi generación y yo enfermamos de la enfermedad del Quijote.solo...

Esta selección de Reflexiones políticas de José Martí comprende textos escritos a lo largo de más de veinte años. Aquí Martí analiza la República española y sus pretensiones coloniales, el excesivo proteccionismo del Estado y su influencia negativa en la actividad pública, las relaciones...

Los Poemas de José Asunción Silva contienen tres referencias privilegiadas: El libro de versos, que él mismo ordenó y tituló; Gotas amargas, que quiso mantener inédito; y Versos varios, compendio del resto de su obra. Silva no parece atraído por el parnasianismo y aún menos por el preciosismo...

En este libro Martí se sorprende una y otra vez ante el dinamismo de la sociedad norteamericana. El capital está asociado con la movilidad de las clases sociales y remueve una y otra vez, con extrema perversidad los órdenes establecidos. Escenas americanas es un libro futurista, marcado también...

El poema «El salto del Niágara» fue interpretado como una metáfora de la libertad y del deseo de Cuba de romper con España, la metrópolis colonial.Aunque Heredia fue un poeta interesado por las formas clásicas, estuvo marcado por la melancolía del romanticismo y el disfrute de la naturaleza....