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by Marial Iglesias Utset
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban...
Listen, Yankee!
Why Cuba Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states—from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism.
Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban...
Our Woman in Havana
A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird’s-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relations...
by Fidel Castro, Jeffrey M. Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliot and former Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally here contribute a lengthy, revealing interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro, discussing a wide-ranging series of topics dealing with local and international politics and economics, as well as the future of Cuba, the third world, Central and South America, and the United States.
Seeds of Insurrection
Domination and Resistance on Western Cuban Plantations, 1808-1848
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
On a late September day in 1837, shortly after sunset, a group of six slaves marched into the small Cuban village of Güira de Melena, beating African drums and singing loudly. Alarmed, villagers rushed into the streets with machetes, sabers, and spears, ready to take action against the disobedient...
Readings in Caribbean History and Culture
Breaking Ground
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of...
Plantation Church
How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about "the Black Church" they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact,...
Back Channel to Cuba
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing...
by Laurent Dubois
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history
Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption....
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
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To a contemporary audience, Haiti brings to mind Voodoo spells, Tontons Macoutes, and boat people--nothing worth fighting over. Two centuries ago, however, Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, was the “Pearl of the Antilles,”...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 in the French colony of Saint Domingue, when a group of slaves rebelled in order to secure their freedom and the end of slavery. In the midst of the French Revolution, slaves took advantage of volatile political, racial, and social circumstances.
Inside...
A Colony of Citizens
Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s,...
Soldiers and Statesmen
Montana History Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Nearly all of the politicians profiled in this book served in the military and fought in the nation’s wars. Most who served in our nation’s wars did not become politicians, however. They were common people for the most part, and we profile several of them. The war this time was Vietnam. A...
The Spirits and the Law
Vodou and Power in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits...