West category: 3403 books
Small Feet, Big Land
Adventure, Home, and Family on the Edge of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Small Feet, Big Land * Sequel to 2009’s top-selling A Long Trek Home: 400 Miles by Boot, Raft, and Ski* Unique narrative combination of thrilling adventure with the challenges of bringing small children along* An accessible window into life on...
by Don Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
A neophyte traveller and lover of history sets out on a two month trip to the little town of Cárdenas in the province of Matanzas, in the country of Cuba, an island nation in the Caribbean. He lives with a Cuban family and explores "the real Cuba", both on his own and with his hosts. Sometimes funny, sometimes touching. A real life adventure.
Castro's Secrets
Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's supreme spymaster. Based on interviews with high level defectors from Cuba's powerful intelligence and security services, long-buried secrets of...
Cuba Libre
A 500-Year Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since Christopher Columbus’s first arrival in 1492. With decades of experience studying and reporting on the island, Philip Brenner and Peter Eisner provide an incisive overview for all readers seeking to go beyond...
Fidel Castro
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
FIDEL CASTRO
August 13, 1926 November 26, 2016.
A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
--Fidel Castro
From revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring....
by José Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, Rafael Marquese
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the “second slavery.” The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing...
Cuba in Splinters
Eleven Stories from the New Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Think Cuba, you’re likely to think bearded revolutionaries in fatigues. Salsa. Sugar cane.Rock ‘n’ roll, zombies, drugs anomie and angst do not generally figure in our mental images of a country that’s assumed an outsized place in the American imagination. But fresh from the tropics,...
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...
The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean
1861-1898
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
In this book, _lvarez-L-pez details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansionist policies of northern European countries and the United States. In 1861, the Dominican...
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...
We Dream Together
Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates...
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 Sherry Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history,...