Corruption in Cuba: Castro and Beyond
ISBN: 9780292714823 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded--by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered is how the new government will deal with the corruption that has become endemic in Cuba. Even though combating corruption cannot be the central aim of post-Castro policy, Sergio Diaz-Briquets and Jorge Perez-Lopez suggest that, without a strong plan to thwart it, corruption will undermine the new economy, erode support for... While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succ... |
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Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cubavolume 9
ISBN: 9780520247116 / Angielski / Miękka / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Robin D. Moore gives readers a chronological overview of the first decades after the Cuban Revolution, documenting the many ways performance has changed and emphasizing the close links between political and cultural activity. Offering a wealth of fascinating details about music and the milieu that engendered it, the author traces the development of dance styles, nueva trova, folkloric...
Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and ...
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The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
ISBN: 9780521694100 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rural and urban elites. This is the first work that systemically surveys slavery in the three nations from comparative perspectives. Chapters focus on slave...
This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery i...
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The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
ISBN: 9780521872355 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rural and urban elites. This is the first work that systemically surveys slavery in the three nations from comparative perspectives. Chapters focus on slave...
This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery i...
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Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898
ISBN: 9780765803443 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system. Katherine Hirschfeld became interested in Cuba in the mid-1990s, after reading numerous laudatory books and articles describing the Castro regime's achievements in health and medicine. Cuba's population health indicators seemed to be far superior to those of neighboring countries, the national health costs low, and medical... Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's... |
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Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
ISBN: 9780807855942 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the United States.
Drawing from rare materials archived in the United States and Havana, Rodrigo Lazo offers new readings of works by writers such as Cirilo Villaverde, Juan Clemente Zenea, Pedro Santacilia, and Miguel T. Tolon. Lazo... In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and bo...
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Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora
ISBN: 9780807856833 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba.
Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what... In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most imp...
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Cuba's Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies
ISBN: 9780813030937 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Mesa-Lago and Perez-Lopez have achieved the rarest of feats: they have given us a dispassionate, data-rich, comparative, provocative, and policy-oriented analysis of Cuba s aborted economic reforms of the last decade."--Ted Henken, Baruch College, CUNY"The most calm and careful analysis yet of Cuba in 2005."--Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University
"An excellent contribution to the economic literature in Cuba . . . A must read for scholars interested in Cuban affairs, as well as for those with broader concerns such as U.S. foreign policy and general prescriptions for countries... "Mesa-Lago and Perez-Lopez have achieved the rarest of feats: they have given us a dispassionate, data-rich, comparative, provocative, and policy-orie...
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Fulgencio Batista: The Making of a Dictatorvolume 1
ISBN: 9780813537016 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pawn of the U.S. government. Right-hand man to the mob. Iron-fisted dictator. For decades, public understanding of the pre-Revolutionary Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista has been limited to these stereotypes. While on some level they all contain an element of truth, these superficial characterizations barely scratch the surface of the complex and compelling career of this important political figure. Second only to Fidel Castro, Batista is the most controversial leader in modern Cuban history. And yet, until now, there has been no objective biography written about him
Pawn of the U.S. government. Right-hand man to the mob. Iron-fisted dictator. For decades, public understanding of the pre-Revolutionary Cuban dictato...
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Debating Cuban Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9781403980755 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model, ' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces
This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics cove...
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193,19 zł |
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
ISBN: 9781556526329 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsenio Rodriguez, Benny More, and Perez Prado. It offers a behind-the-scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view, unearthing surprising, provocative connections and makingthe casethat Cuba was fundamental to the evolution of music in the New World. The ways in whichthe music of black slaves transformed 16th-century Europe, how the claves appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues are revealed....
This entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Valdes, Arsen...
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123,12 zł |
Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel
ISBN: 9781592442799 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Viajes Por Rusia
ISBN: 9788496290358 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ensayos. Antología
ISBN: 9788496290365 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Poemas
ISBN: 9788496290983 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esta es una antologia de los mejores poemas de unos de los poetas mas relevantes de la Cuba del siglo XIX. This anthology collects the most important works of one of the most indispensable Cuban poets of the 19th century."
Esta es una antologia de los mejores poemas de unos de los poetas mas relevantes de la Cuba del siglo XIX. This anthology collects the most important ...
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Cuentos Afrocubanos (Patakines)
ISBN: 9788498166033 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Los patakines son un conjunto de narraciones orales de origen africano, que han sido transcritas al castellano en los rituales de la liturgia sagrada afrocubana. Estos relatos nos acercan a los orgenes de muchas deidades (orishas) y cuentan historias de estas culturas. En el sincretismo de la cultura cubana muchos de estos relatos se enriquecieron con elementos de la religin cristiana y con otros mitos propios de las diversas culturas que conviven en Cuba. The 'Patakines' are a collection of narratives, based in the original African oral tradition. They have been transcribed into Spanish by...
Los patakines son un conjunto de narraciones orales de origen africano, que han sido transcritas al castellano en los rituales de la liturgia sagrada ...
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Poemas
ISBN: 9788498166743 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El poeta cubano (1861-1936) del modernismo-romantico es conocido por su poema patriotico "Mi bandera.""
El poeta cubano (1861-1936) del modernismo-romantico es conocido por su poema patriotico "Mi bandera.""
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Antología
ISBN: 9788498166774 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage
ISBN: 9780252033315 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad in the tight pants, boots, and riding jacket of a coachman. Standing alongside a gilded carriage and a live horse, the blackfaced, cross-dressed actress sang the premiere of Eliseo Grenet's tango-congo, "Ay Mama Ines." The crowd went wild. Montaner's performance cemented "Ay Mama Ines" as one of the classics in the Cuban repertoire, but more importantly, the premiere heralded the birth of the Cuban zarzuela, a new... On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened... |
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Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba
ISBN: 9780807858875 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba today and yesterday, gets behind the wheel and behind the stereotype in this colorful chronicle of cars, buses, and trucks. In his captivating, sometimes gritty, voice, Schweid blends previously untapped historical sources with his personal experiences, spinning a car-centered history of life on the island over the past century.
Packard, Studebaker, Edsel, De Soto: cars long extinct in... Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the islan...
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149,76 zł |