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The History of Havana (Palgrave Essential Histories)
by Dick Cluster  Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city, and the first to be co-authored by a Cuban and an American. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, Cluster and Hernández explore the making of the city and its people...
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The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba, and the Search for the American Dream
by Steve Fainaru Publisher Comments In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of...
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The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile
by Patrick Symmes Publisher Comments In a remarkable, original work of investigative history, Symmes explains the political and social complexities of Cuba today, by illuminating the particular Cuba from which Fidel Castro emerged....
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Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant
by Humberto Fontova Publisher Comments Funny name for a man who has threatened the United States with nuclear war, who has made common cause with Islamic terrorists against the United States, and whose people risk death to escape him. But there's a lot that Hollywood liberals and other...
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The Rebel Radio Diary
by Rupert Mould Publisher Comments Beautifully evocative of the music, people, and culture of one of the most fascinating countries in the world, this book is essential reading for Cuba's growing band of supporters and visitors. A travelogue detailing two separate missions for musician...
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Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution
by Alm Guillermoprieto Publisher Comments A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970, a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscience.Alma Guillermoprieto—an award–winning journalist and arguably our most clear-eyed...
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Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag
by Armando Valladares Publisher Comments Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his deep...
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Inside Cuba: The History, Culture, and Politics of an Outlaw Nation
by John Miller Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical referneces (p. 323-324)....
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Contemporary Cuba Reader : Reinventing the Revolution (07 Edition)
by Brenner (ed.) Jimenez (ed.) Kirk (ed.) Grande (ed.) Publisher Comments This anthology brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in the post-Soviet era, which Cubans call the Special Period. Ideally suited for students and general readers...
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Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest...
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Cuba in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture (In Focus Guides)
by Emily Hatchwell Publisher Comments In its fourth decade of revolution, Cuba is facing massive challenges. "Cuba in Focus" is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country. It explores the land, history and politics, economy, society and people, culture and includes...
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My Life with Che: The Making of a Revolutionary
by Hilda Gadea Publisher Comments 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...
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Cuba & the United States 2ND Edition
by Louis A Perez Synopsis Ties of Singular Intimacy The Times Literary Supplement calls Louis A. Perez Jr. "the foremost historian of Cuba writing in English; " In this new edition of his acclaimed 1990 volume, he brings his expertise to bear on the history and direction of...
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Che Guevara (Critical Lives)
by Eric Luther Publisher Comments Cuban revolutionary, doctor, communist, author, rebel, hero, villain -- and, according to no lesser light than Jean Paul Satre, "the most complete human being" of his age -- Ernest "Che" Guevara is a perfect figure to explore in the "Critical Lives...
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Afrocuba: An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture
by Pedro Perez Sarduy Publisher Comments This anthology looks at the AfroCuban experience through the eyes of the island's writers, scholars and artists. "A rich portrait of AfroCuba-one of the most vibrant and least well-documented of the black Caribbean diasporas."-Stuart...
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War of 1898 : the United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (98 Edition)
by Louis A. Jr. Perez Publisher Comments Focusing on the War of 1898, Louis Perez presents both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war that is informed by Cuban sources....
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Our America and Theirs: Kennedy and the Alliance for Progress--The Debate at Punta del Este
by Guevara Publisher Comments To check the spread of revolution in Latin America in 1961, Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress-a program for free trade and development in the Americas. Che Guevara, described by "Time" magazine as "Cuba's scraggle-bearded economic czar...
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In the Pirate's Den: My Life as a Secret Agent for Castro
by Jorge Masetti Publisher Comments In this riveting book, Masetti takes the reader inside the war room of the Cuban revolution. His life involved international revolutionary intrigue: smuggling diamonds and ivory; counterfeiting U.S. dollars; trafficking in narcotics. He served in Angola...
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The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
by Ernesto Guevara Publisher Comments Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, an essential player in the Cuban Revolution whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid worldwide conjecture, Guevara left Cuba, where he was...
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Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery
by Rebecca J Scott Publisher Comments As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedomcompares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and...
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