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Medicine and International Relations in the Caribbean : Some Historical Variants
ISBN: 9780595382392 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Medicine has long framed race-relations in the Carribean-that basin where African and European cultures have encountered each other for centuries. Whether it was Sir Hans Sloane, who as a physician in Jamaica wrote about African medical beliefs and practices in the seventeenth century, or Dr. Leonard Wood, a doctor who served as military governor to Cuba two hundred years later, medicine and its practitioners have played a key role in the perception of the African Other. While it may not be surprising that colonial physicians often failed to acknowledge the same errors in their own Western...
Medicine has long framed race-relations in the Carribean-that basin where African and European cultures have encountered each other for centuries. Whe...
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106,09 zł |
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Offshore Vegas : How the Mob Brought Revolution to Cuba
ISBN: 9780595392575 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Most people have heard of Fidel Castro, but what was Cuba like before Castro? Who was Fulgencio Batista? How did he gain control of the country and why did he need to be replaced? What created the conditions under which someone like Castro was able to gain - and maintain the support of the people?
This book offers a surprising answer: The mob. Inside this book, you will discover how Batista's friendship with Meyer Lansky allowed the Mafia to become dollar for dollar partners with the Cuban government in the casino hotel industry. This industry came to dominate the Cuban economy in the... Most people have heard of Fidel Castro, but what was Cuba like before Castro? Who was Fulgencio Batista? How did he gain control of the country and wh...
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53,46 zł |
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Sad and Luminous Days : Cuba's Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9780742522886 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous moment in modern history and resulted in a changed worldview for the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. In tracing the developments of the missile crisis and beyond, Sad and Luminous Days presents and interprets a heretofore unavailable (and largely unknown) secret speech that Castro delivered to the Cuban leadership in 1968. In it, Castro reflects on the crisis and reveals the distrust and...
In October 1962 school children huddled under their desks and diplomats feverishly negotiated as the world sat on the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban ...
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587,25 zł |
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The Elusive El Dorado : Essays on the Indian Experience in Guyana
ISBN: 9780761832478 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Elusive El Dorado is a thoroughly researched collection of essays on the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean. This fascinating book focuses mainly on the indenture and post-indenture historical periods. It includes a list of emigrant ships, with dates of arrival that landed in Guyana from Calcutta and Madras. Indians interested in researching their roots will find this information invaluable. A valuable resource for genealogists.
The Elusive El Dorado is a thoroughly researched collection of essays on the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean. This fascinating book focuses mainly on...
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277,54 zł |
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The Lost Apple the Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future
ISBN: 9780807002339 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From 1960 to 1962, 14,048 Cuban minors arrived in Miami. Maria de los Angeles Torres was six years old when she took part in this massive airlift-now known as Operation Pedro Pan-in which parents, terrified that the new communist government would ship their children to Soviet work camps, sent them instead to America. Torres examines the event from both a historical and a personal perspective. This 'relentless investigator of history' (Miami Herald) forces declassification of key documents, challenging us all finally to come to terms with this pivotal yet largely neglected exodus.
From 1960 to 1962, 14,048 Cuban minors arrived in Miami. Maria de los Angeles Torres was six years old when she took part in this massive airlift-now ...
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159,36 zł |
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Measures of Equality : Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940
ISBN: 9780807855638 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship. Alejandra Bronfman traces the formation of Cuba's multiracial legal and political order in the early Republic by exploring the responses of social scientists, such as Fernando Ortiz and Israel Castellanos, and black and mulatto activists, including Gustavo Urrutia and Nicolas Guillen, to the paradoxes of modern nationhood.
Law, science, and the social... In the years following Cuba's independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cult...
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203,48 zł |
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The Myth of Jose Marti : Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
ISBN: 9780807855904 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of their identity and the character of the state, from Cuba's last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921. Guerra argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the "social unity" proposed by Cuba's revolutionary patriot, Jose Marti, reveal conflicting visions of the nation--visions that differ in their ideological radicalism and in how they cast Cuba's relationship with the United...
Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of the...
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203,48 zł |
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The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
ISBN: 9780807856734 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies or domestic socioeconomic conditions, Farber shows that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions, although not necessarily according to a master plan.
Exploring how historical... Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolutio...
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178,40 zł |
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The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
ISBN: 9780807857724 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts.
Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century "sugar boom" in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and... In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most impor...
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178,40 zł |
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To Die in Cuba : Suicide and Society
ISBN: 9780807858165 / Angielski / Miękka / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. explores the way suicide passed from the unthinkable to the unremarkable in Cuban society.
In a study that spans the experiences of enslaved Africans and indentured Chinese in the colony, nationalists of the twentieth-century... For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the hig...
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178,40 zł |
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The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba
ISBN: 9780813028002 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "No previous work so clearly and coherently examines the uniqueness of Cuba within the Caribbean and Hispanic American context. It is indispensable for understanding the development of society and economy in Cuba after 1762."--Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
"No previous work so clearly and coherently examines the uniqueness of Cuba within the Caribbean and Hispanic American context. It is indispensable... |
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147,82 zł |
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Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar : Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9780822334941 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, and many expected that Castro's revolution--the one that had inspired the Left throughout Latin America and elsewhere--would soon be gone as well. More than a decade later, the revolution lives on, albeit in a modified form. Following the collapse of Soviet communism, Castro legalized the dollar, opened the island to tourism, and allowed foreign investment, small-scale private enterprise, and remittances from exiles in Miami. "Capitalism, God,...
When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies it had provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, a...
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118,97 zł |
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Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads. New Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780902869950 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ridenour, a celebrated writer on Cuban and Central American politics, has published a new expanded edition of "Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads," which has been updated to cover Fidel Castros withdrawal from power during his long illness in 2007.
Ridenour, a celebrated writer on Cuban and Central American politics, has published a new expanded edition of "Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads," which has...
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The History of Cuba
ISBN: 9781403962591 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Cuba is much more than cigars, classic automobiles, and Castro. This remarkable nation has had a long history of relations with larger political powers that were drawn to the island because of its valuable resources and strategic location. Ties between Cuba and the United States have been strong since the mid-nineteenth century, and the theme of U.S. dominance over the island and its people is a primary historical perspective. Cuba's history is told in eight chronological chapters, from its earliest days as a Spanish colony, through its wars for independence and the U.S. occupation in the... Cuba is much more than cigars, classic automobiles, and Castro. This remarkable nation has had a long history of relations with larger political po... |
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77,42 zł |
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Havana: Autobiography of a City
ISBN: 9781403975393 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Alfredo Jose Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the island's five hundred year history, Estrada portrays the adventurers and dreamers who left their mark on Havana, including Jose Marti, martyr for Cuban independence; and Ernest Hemingway, the most American of writers who became an unabashed Habanero. Alfredo Jose Estrada's intimate ties to Havana form the basis for this "autobiography," written as though from the city's own heart. Covering the i... |
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93,50 zł |
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Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution : Age, Position, Character, Destiny, Personality, and Ambition
ISBN: 9781412807319 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban affairs, Carlos Alberto Montaner has written a definitive study of the Cuban regime from the vantage point of the Cuban dictator. This is not simply a history of Cuban communism but rather a personal history of its leader, Fidel Castro. Montaner's extraordinary knowledge of the country and its politics prevents the work from becoming a psychiatric examination from afar. Indeed, what personal irrationalities exist are seen as built into the fabric of the regime itself, and not simply as a personality aberration. Fidel... Perhaps the foremost social analyst and journalist on Cuban affairs, Carlos Alberto Montaner has written a definitive study of the Cuban regime fro... |
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214,46 zł |
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Last Dance in Havana : The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution
ISBN: 9781416568261 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more fully understand the future of America's near neighbor, veteran reporter Eugene Robinson knew exactly where to look -- or rather, to listen. In this provocative work, Robinson takes us on a sweaty, pulsating, and lyrical tour of a country on the verge of revolution, using its musicians as a window...
In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has...
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81,28 zł |
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Cuba, Castro and the King Solomon
ISBN: 9781418495978 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The legend says that two women were claiming to be the mother of the same child. They were taken to King Solomon, a king known by his wisdom, so that he could resolve the situation. The King proposed to cut the child in half so that each woman had a piece of him. The legend says that in that manner the King discovered who the real mother was and he gave the child to her. In 1962, a greedy Cuban leader played the role of King Solomon's impostor mother. When facing the alternative of losing the power he had just gained or sacrificing the people to whom he had promised to defend, he proposed to...
The legend says that two women were claiming to be the mother of the same child. They were taken to King Solomon, a king known by his wisdom, so that ...
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56,08 zł |
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Cuba in War Time
ISBN: 9781421809854 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When the revolution broke out in Cuba two years ago, the Spaniards at once began to build tiny forts, and continued to add to these and improve those already built, until now the whole island, which is eight hundred miles long and averages eighty miles in width, is studded as thickly with these little forts as is the sole of a brogan with iron nails. It is necessary to keep the fact of the existence of these forts in mind in order to understand the situation in Cuba at the present time, as they illustrate the Spanish plan of campaign, and explain why the war has dragged on for so long, and...
When the revolution broke out in Cuba two years ago, the Spaniards at once began to build tiny forts, and continued to add to these and improve those ...
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137,61 zł |
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Generacion Perdida
ISBN: 9781425953768 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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99,11 zł |