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by Félix Varela y Morales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Félix Varela y Morales (teólogo, sacerdote, investigador cubano). Hijo de un militar español. A los seis años vivió con su familia en La Florida. Allí cursó la primera enseñanza. En 1801 regresó a La Habana y entró en el Seminario de San Carlos y San Ambrosio. En 1806 obtuvo el título de...
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Esta obra dramática relata un conflicto dinástico ambientado en Mauritania.
Havana
A Subtropical Delirium
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city...
My Life with Che
The Making of a Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, paints a personal portrait of the legendary figure, revealing his lesser known side as a romantic wanderer, a philosopher and doting suitor and father. Ernesto Guevara and Hilda Gadea met in Guatemala as members of the political-exile community. Later they were...
Cuban Anarchism
The History of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This inspiring history of the Cuban anarchist movement is also a history of the Cuban labor movement. It covers both from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present, and ends with an enlightening analysis of the failure of the Castro dictatorship.
The Structure of Cuban History
Meanings and Purpose of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as...
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
The Biography of a Cause
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought...
Yankee Come Home
On the Road from San Juan Hill to Guantánamo
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Yankee Come Home explores one family's history in Cuba, and through it, the intense, complex, smoldering relationship between the island nation and its leviathan neighbor.
In Cuba's most entrancing, storied landscape, William Craig is searching for a history that his family has lost-and now...
Cuba and the U.S. Empire
A Chronological History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of the United States, declared its independence, not just from the imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global capitalism itself. Cuba’s many achievements...
by C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, Grace Lee Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Originally published in 1950, this analysis by three respected activists successfully predicted the future course of Marxism. Their revolutionary critique of industrial civilization possessed a striking originality that was insular in its political context and optimistic in its expectations for the...
ESCRITOS SOBRE LA ARENA
(WRITINGS ON THE SAND)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Escritos sobre la Arena recoge las memorias del autor de su familia en una época de gran agitación en la Historia de Cuba. Después de la renuncia del Presidente Batista, su padre, que era Jefe de la Policía Nacional en Santiago de Cuba, actuó como intermediario para ayudar a establecer comunicación...
Cuba beyond the Beach
Stories of Life in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city....
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...