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13 produkter
Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean
Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana
Inbunden, 1998
2585 kr
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This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other …
Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean
Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana
Häftad, 1998
669 kr
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This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse's correspondence, diaries and other …
Revolutionary Cuba
A History
E-bok, 2014
802 kr
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This is the first book in more than three decades to offer a complete and chronological history of revolutionary Cuba, including the years of rebellion that led to the revolution. Beginning with Batista’s coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and bringing the reader to the present-day …
Revolutionary Cuba
A History
Häftad, 2016
356 kr
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Beginning with Batista’s coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and concluding with present-day transformations initiated under Raúl Castro, Revolutionary Cuba provides a balanced analytical synthesis of all the major topics of contemporary Cuban history.Luis Martínez-Fernández examines the …
Torn between Empires
Economy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Viewing developments as they relate to the countries’ common heritage of insularity, colonialism, and slavery, …
Torn between Empires
Economy, Society, and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840-1878
Inbunden, 2018
1645 kr
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This in-depth, comparative study focuses on the economy, society, and political culture of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Viewing developments as they relate to the countries’ common heritage of insularity, colonialism, and slavery, …
Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean
Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana
E-bok, 2015
785 kr
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This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse''s correspondence, diaries and other …
Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean
Life and Times of a British Family in Nineteenth Century Havana
E-bok, 2015
785 kr
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This volume presents a social history of life in mid-19th-century Cuba as experienced by George Backhouse (and his wife, Grace), who served on the British Havana Mixed Commission for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Documented with extracts from the Backhouse''s correspondence, diaries and other …
When the World Turned Upside Down
Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2022
Häftad, 2023
482 kr
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When the World Turned Upside Down is a collection of 66 essays and opinion columns written between 2019 and 2022, a period of momentous—some unimaginable—developments in the United States and across the world. This book stands at the intersection of opinion journalism, history, and chronicling …
Key to the New World
A History of Early Colonial Cuba
Inbunden, 2018
880 kr
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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 …
Key to the New World
A History of Early Colonial Cuba
Häftad, 2019
283 kr
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In these often-overlooked centuries, Martínez-Fernández finds the roots of many of Cuba's enduring economic, political, social, and cultural complexities. The result is a sweeping history, a seminal text that makes clear that to fully grasp revolutionary or contemporary Cuba we must first …
Profundiza en las matemáticas universitarias con humor
E-bok, 2024
170 kr
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¡Descubre el lado divertido de las matemáticas universitarias!¿Estás estudiando una carrera que incluye matemáticas y se te hace cuesta arriba? ¿O quizás eres un entusiasta de los números que busca una perspectiva fresca y divertida? ¡Este libro te vendrá que ni pintado!Profundiza en las …
Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Ninteenth-Century Hispanic Caribbean
Häftad, 2001
456 kr
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Catholicism has long been recognized as one of the major forces shaping the Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic) during the nineteenth century, but the role of Protestantism has not been fully explored. Protestantism and Political Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century …
