Kategoria BISAC: History >> Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba

What Manner of Man Is This? is a unique and incisive look at an important but largely ignored period of the life of the Prince of Wales who was heir to the British throne and became King of England, Edward VIII, in 1936. A mere ten months later he abdicated the throne to marry a twice-divorced American, Mrs. Wallis Simpson in what was at once the scandal of the century and the love story of the age.

Many books have been written about the royal couple, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but this focuses exclusively on The Duke's tenure as Royal Governor of The Bahamas in a...

A continuación comenzaras un viaje por el mundo del argot, las jergas, los coloquialismos de Cuba, un viaje donde no se pretende estimular el uso de esta jerga, ni que piensen de que todos los cubanos hablamos de esta manera, su objetivo principal es que te diviertas y que conozcan nuestra argot para que en ocasiones puedan desenvolverse mejor entre nosotros los cubanos tanto dentro como fuer de la isla, Cuba es un país culto e instruido y como cualquier otra sociedad tenemos nuestros propios modismos y lenguajes que hoy queremos compartir con ustedes. TambiEn es un libro...

Cointa G. Martin was born in Havana, Cuba, and now lives in Miami, Florida. He received a bachelor of arts degree in literature (Doctor en Filosofia in Spanish) from Florida International University in 2012. His doctoral thesis, Mundos prohibidos: el poder en el discurso epistolar de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Juana Borrero.

History, passion and art are the thematic axes on which revolve the more than 200 letters that the young Cuban poet, Juana Borrero, wrote to the poet from Matanzas, Carlos Pius Uhrbach. Yes, they are love letters, but they...

Scholarly and popular attention tends to focus heavily on Cuba's recent history: its notoriety as the world's largest exporter of sugar and the Western hemisphere's first socialist nation. Key to the New World fills the gap in our knowledge of the island before 1700, examining Cuba's formative centuries in depth.

Luis Martinez-Fernandez presents a holistic portrait of the island nation, interrelating its geography, economy, society, politics, and culture. He weaves these threads into a narrative that begins with the first arrival of indigenous people 10,000 years ago. He explores the...

Magdalena Hernández y Castells (1884-1976) was born in Havana and resided in El Vedado (Cuba). She had a great love of reading and her well-stocked library was frequently visited by relatives and friends. In 1950 she wrote a memoir of her life at the request of her youngest daughter.

Rosario P. Vickery was born in Havana and studied in the United States. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and French from St. Mari's Dominican College in New Orleans, Louisiana. She also holds a Master's in French from Appalachian State University in North Carolina, as well as...

Este estudio tiene como propOsito valorar la trayectoria de la Obra de la RevoluciOn que se inicia con la fecunda epopeya del Moncada, la insurrecciOn armada, la victoria del 1 de Enero de 1959; y continua con el anAlisis de la experiencia de la construcciOn socialista en Cuba hasta el 2016, con sus aciertos y desacierto, su aporte indiscutibles a la difusiOn de las ideas para la emancipaciOn de los pueblos excluidos de la modernidad; muestra que el socialismo sOlo es viable en la variante "economIa social de mercado" vinculado a la integraciOn regional; es por tanto, la Unica teorIa capaz...

Antoni Kapcia shows how the thaw in relations between Cuba and the USA now makes a fresh appraisal of the country and its modern history essential. He authoritatively explores the "essence" of the Cuban revolution, revealing it to be a...

Antoni Kapcia shows how the thaw in relations between Cuba and the USA now makes a fresh appraisal of the country and its modern history essential. He authoritatively explores the "essence" of the Cuban revolution, revealing it to be a...