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Rebel Lands of Cuba: The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934-1974
ISBN: 9781498506595 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 and then 1959-1974 and seeks to explain why campesinos in Escambray, having been active in the insurrection against Batista, later turned to stage a massive counter-revolution against the government headed by Fidel Castro. Although campesinos in both regions had been equally ignored by pre-1959...
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...
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538,76 |
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Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
ISBN: 9780822358855 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban...
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island s ongoing transition from...
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137,09 |
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Negro Soy Yo: Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba
ISBN: 9780822359852 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for racial justice, at the fraught confluence of growing Afro-Cuban marginalization and long held perceptions of Cuba as a non-racial nation. Situating hip hop within a long history of Cuban...
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from...
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460,38 |
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Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection
ISBN: 9780748698080 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.
This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field, with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional... For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. Th...
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465,29 |
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In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History
ISBN: 9780813061108 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choice Outstanding Academic Title "A pioneering collection of essays on the world of anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and libertarian thinkers in Latin America."--Barry Carr, coeditor of The New Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire "An important contribution to a recent trend which sees anarchism not as derived from a European center but as a genuine Latin American phenomenon."--Bert Altena, coeditor of Reassessing the Transnational Turn: Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies "Thoughtful, well-researched, and well-written. As...
Choice Outstanding Academic Title "A pioneering collection of essays on the world of anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and libertar...
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328,15 |
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Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League
ISBN: 9780813061160 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An in-depth look at a pivotal time in baseball history."--Lou Hernandez, author of Baseball's Great Hispanic Pitchers "Set against the backdrop of Old Havana, Cesar Brioso has given us an insightful, often loving ode to a memorable season when baseball's past and future came together."--Tim Wendel, author of Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball, and America, Forever "Long before the true Gold Age of Cuban baseball marked by the most recent quarter-century, there was also an era of pre-revolutionary professional winter league action housed in Havana. Brioso brings...
"An in-depth look at a pivotal time in baseball history."--Lou Hernandez, author of Baseball's Great Hispanic Pitchers "Set against the backdro...
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96,15 |
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Días de fuego, años de humo. Ensayos sobre la Revolución cubana
ISBN: 9789082240412 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Los veinticinco ensayos reunidos aqui abordan una serie de temas recurrentes: las aporias de la violencia revolucionaria, la toma de la ciudad burguesa por las masas proletarias, la crisis y resurgimiento de la idea de lo cubano, esas dos fundamentales mitologias del castrismo que son el hombre nuevo y la pobreza irradiante, la memoria, la ruina... Un libro, en resumen, sobre la Revolucion cubana, su decurso fatal desde la fiesta nacionalista de los primeros dias hasta la melancolica incertidumbre de los actuales. Su esplendor y su miseria, su humo y su fuego. Duanel Diaz Infante (San German,...
Los veinticinco ensayos reunidos aqui abordan una serie de temas recurrentes: las aporias de la violencia revolucionaria, la toma de la ciudad burgues...
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181,27 |
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Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
ISBN: 9781469626604 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and...
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...
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122,40 |
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Fighting Over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution
ISBN: 9780691169514 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War--and the Cuban Revolution. Fighting over Fidel brings this turbulent cultural moment to life by telling the story of the New York intellectuals who championed and opposed Castro's revolution. Setting his narrative against the backdrop of the ideological confrontation of the Cold War and the breakdown of relations between Washington and Havana, Rafael Rojas examines the lives and writings of such figures as Waldo Frank, Carleton... New York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam Wa... |
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171,42 |
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Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution
ISBN: 9781107079588 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Mexico's unique foreign relations with the US and Cuba during the Cold War.
This book examines Mexico's unique foreign relations with the US and Cuba during the Cold War.
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442,46 |
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Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection
ISBN: 9781474408806 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.
This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field, with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional... For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. Th...
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115,42 |
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Managing Our Past Into the Future: Archaeological Heritage Management in the Dutch Caribbean
ISBN: 9789088903250 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist industry. The continuous construction of specific projects for tourists, accompanied by illegal practices such as looting and sand mining, have major impacts on the region's archaeological heritage. The geopolitical and cultural diversity of the Caribbean, the general lack of awareness of island histories and multiple stakeholders involved in the preservation process, have in many cases slowed down the effective enforcement of regulations and...
Caribbean archaeological heritage is threatened by natural impacts but also increasingly by economic developments, often resulting from the tourist in...
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318,35 |
![Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses Piero Gleijeses 9781469628325 University of North Carolina Press](/9781469628325_visions_of_freedom_havana_washington_pretoria_and_the_struggle_for_southern_africa_1976_1991_cpiero_gleijeses.jpg "Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses") |
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses
ISBN: 9781469628325 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa's last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa. Piero Gleijeses uses archival sources, particularly from the United States, South Africa, and the closed Cuban archives, to provide an unprecedented international history of this important...
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between th...
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156,72 |
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The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9781442216808 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis recreates the drama of those tumultuous days as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved. They poignantly document the rapidly shifting physical and psychological realities each leader faced, allowing the reader to experience the crisis as never before.
On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis recreates the dra...
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146,94 |
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Images of Cuba
ISBN: 9780956787248 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, a tropical paradise where lovingly preserved 1950s American cars adorn streets lined with crumbling, centuries-old buildings. And, somehow, the seemingly incongruous all fit together in one of the safest and most photogenic countries in the world. A living museum, Cuba effortlessly appeases all the senses. With its warm, educated, population and famed for its hand-rolled cigars, rich coffee, exceptional rum, stunning tropical vistas, unrivalled cultural heritage and infectious music, Cuba is like no other place on Earth. In this... Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, a tropical paradise where lovingly preserved 1950s American cars adorn streets lined with crumbling, c... |
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254,19 |
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MIS Relaciones Con Maaximo Gaomez
ISBN: 9780897294317 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Orestes Ferrara (Napoli, 8 July 1876 - Naples, 16 February 1972 ) was a lawyer, politician and writer, Italian naturalized Cuban, officer and director of the new State caribbean which will also - among other tasks - Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Delegate to UNESCO, Professor of Political Law at the University of Havana, and Ambassador at the United States. In 1896, at age 20, when Orestes was a law student at the University of Naples, Italy, he ran away and left behind his well-to-do family and beloved friends to go fight a faraway war for the liberty...
Orestes Ferrara (Napoli, 8 July 1876 - Naples, 16 February 1972 ) was a lawyer, politician and writer, Italian naturalized Cuban, officer and director...
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129,27 |
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Castro
ISBN: 9781405873185 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international stage and none survived as head of state for as long. Over almost 50 years, he was one of the most controversial political figures in the world, and his legacy has yet to be fully evaluated. Some of his most cherished plans were realized and are a model for many Third World countries. Yet despite enormous sacrifices by Cubans, his grand vision remains unfulfilled and its continued pursuit is... The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played su... |
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195,86 |
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Castro's Revolution, Myth and Reality: Volume I
ISBN: 9781523712977 / Angielski / Miękka / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Juan M. Clark, PhD. spent over 40 years of his life studying the Cuban Revolution and the effects it had not only in Cuba but around the world. He also conducted numerous interviews with persons who knew Fidel Castro in a personal way, his former schoolmates, guerrilla companions, even his favorite teacher. The product of all his investigations is this book, probably the most complete ever written on the man and his revolution. Cubans say that nobody will understand what living in Cuba today entails unless "you experience it." This book will give you, the reader, a clearer idea of...
Professor Juan M. Clark, PhD. spent over 40 years of his life studying the Cuban Revolution and the effects it had not only in Cuba but around the wor...
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93,06 |
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Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean
ISBN: 9781683400028 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Changes the conversation about Cuban archaeology as a whole, presenting groundbreaking data and interpretations that will be useful for prehistoric and historical archaeologists working the region. Samuel M. Wilson, author of The Archaeology of the Caribbean
In this volume, Ivan Roksandic and an international team of researchers trace population movement throughout the Caribbean, specifically to Cuba. Through analysis of early agriculture, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, dietary patterns, and more, they present a new theory of mainland migration to Cuba... Changes the conversation about Cuban archaeology as a whole, presenting groundbreaking data and interpretations that will be useful for prehistoric an...
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347,74 |
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Seagull One: La asombrosa y verdadera historia de los Hermanos al Rescate
ISBN: 9781523411566 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este libro presenta la historia, nunca antes contada en espanol, de los hombres y mujeres de diecinueve nacionalidades que se asociaron para volar en fragiles avionetas sobre las aguas que median entre Cuba y la Florida en busca de los balseros que huian de Cuba comunista. Salvaron mas de 4.200 vidas. Es un fascinante relato de como Jose Basulto, exiliado cubano y veterano de Bahia de Cochinos, fundo HAR con la mision humanitaria de salvar las vidas de unos seres desesperados dispuestos a enfrentar el oceano en busca de la libertad. La presente obra cuenta tambien la penetracion en HAR de dos...
Este libro presenta la historia, nunca antes contada en espanol, de los hombres y mujeres de diecinueve nacionalidades que se asociaron para volar en ...
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63,93 |
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