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by Joyce Huber
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Based on Best Dives of the Caribbean, this book focuses on the Virgin Islands exclusively. Includes the latest and best dive and snorkel sites, each rated for visual excellence and marine life. The author's knowledge of the Caribbean sites is unparalleled. From sunken planes and snorkel trails to...
by John Lawrence Tone
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the "Splendid Little War" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization...
by Alejandro de la Fuente
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local...
The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery
Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
The period of the "second slavery" was marked by geographic expansion of zones of slavery into the Upper US South, Cuba and Brazil and chronological expansion into the industrial age.As The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery shows, ambitious planters throughout the Greater Caribbean hired a...
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties
Cuba and Canada in the Shadow of the US
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Other Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of 1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent years.
Through the conceptual lens of "other diplomacies," which emphasizes interactions among non-state...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This monograph examines the evolution of United States Army deployment operations through the failures during the 1898 Santiago Expedition's mobilization through Tampa, Florida. The failed...
Suspect Freedoms
The Racial and Sexual Politics of Cubanidad in New York, 1823-1957
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept...
by Arthur F. Crowin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886—from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude. Making extensive use of heretofore untapped research sources from the Spanish archives,...
The Stand-Up Paddler's Guide to Southern California
Paddling, Surfing, Touring, Racing, and Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
The Stand-Up Paddler's Guide to Southern California by local veteran outdoorsman David Womack is a beach-by-beach guide to paddling in the coastal waters from San Diego to Santa Barbara. The book covers every application of stand-up paddling from touring to surfing. This is the book you need if you want to maximize your SUP experience.
Champions
The Story of the First Two Oakland A's Dynasties-and the Building of the Third
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Three eras of baseball excellence are profiled in this history of the Oakland Athletics by respected columnist Glenn Dickey. From the Charles Finley years of the early 1970s—during which the A’s won five straight divisional championships and three straight World Series—through the power years...
Down in Bristol Bay
High Tides, Hangovers, and Harrowing Experiences on Alaska's Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 1999
Dr. Robert Allen Durr - literary scholar, award-winning author, former confidant to legendary writer H. L. Mencken, and one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world - decided one day to give it all up and move to a remote region of Alaska in search of paradise.
Convinced that truth,...
Unpleasantries
Considerations of Difficult Questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quickly—skiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highways—Soos combines an active physical life...
by Adam Sol
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
A Tourists Guide to Havana.
This book covers several topics including:
- Havana history - Traveling to Havana by car, plane, train, bus and even boat - Getting around Havana - Popular Attractions and Activities - Restaurants
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If These Walls Could Talk: Los Angeles Dodgers
Stories from the Los Angeles Dodgers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Since moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958, the Dodgers have had an eventful—and frequently successful—history. From playing in the 100,000-seat Coliseum to five World Series titles, from Fernandomania to Mannywood, and from Sandy Koufax to Clayton Kershaw, the Boys in Blue have long been...