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Cuba Today and Tomorrow
Reinventing Socialism
Av Max Azicri
Inbunden, 2001
709 kr
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Unlikely to gratify those with strong views on either side of the political divide, Max Azicri's study provides an intelligent, scholarly response to the current questions posed by the Cuban Revolution. Covering the turbulent period of the 1990s, the book examines such issues as the impact on Cuba …
Cuba's Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World
Häftad, 2002
273 kr
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In his analysis of the broad scope of revolutionary Cuba's foreign relations, H. Michael Erisman emphasizes two key aspects: Cuba's adjustment since the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc and the ongoing confrontation between Cuba and the United States. Using revolutionary Cuba's foreign relations …
SANTERIA HEALING: a JOURNEY INTO the AFRO-CUBAN WORLD of DIVINITIES, SPIRITS SORCER
A Journey Into the Afro-Cuban World of Divinities, Spirits, and Sorcery
Av University Press of Florida
Häftad, 2003
277 kr
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Wedel's account will appeal to scholars and others interested in Santería, Cuba, and religious healing. Santería--with roots in Africa and the slave trade and rituals including divination, animal sacrifice, and possession trance--would seem an anachronism in the modern world. Still, Wedel argues, …
Cuba in the Shadow of Change
Daily Life in the Twilight of the Revolution
Häftad, 2012
334 kr
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"This book is a masterpiece. Accurate, lyrical, and empathetic in its illumination of the lives of ordinary Cubans, as they survive and thrive in the bizarre economic and political environment of Cuba during its 'Special Period.'"--Archibald Ritter, Carleton UniversityAmelia Weinreb takes readers …
Cuban Revelations
Behind the Scenes in Havana
Av Marc Frank
Inbunden, 2013
357 kr
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"Marc Frank is the best foreign journalist reporting from Cuba today. We now have a behind-the-scenes look at the changes large and small taking place as the Cuban revolution molts from Fidel to Raúl to the next generation."--Julia Sweig, author of Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know "A must-read …
Cuba in a Global Context
International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism
Inbunden, 2014
859 kr
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There is a great deal more to Cubas place on the global stage than its contentious relationship with the United States. Taking a refreshing look at Cuban international relations, contributors to this volume from both inside and outside the island explore the myriad ways in which it has not only …
Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba
Av Sinan Koont
Häftad, 2017
277 kr
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As large-scale industrial agriculture comes under increasing scrutiny because of its petroleum- and petrochemical-based input costs and environmentally objectionable consequences, increasing attention has been focused on sustainable, local, and agro-ecological techniques in food production. Cuba …
Healthcare Without Borders
Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
Av John M. Kirk
Häftad, 2015
900 kr
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Cuba has more medical personnel serving abroad - over 50,000 in 66 countries - than all of the G-7 countries combined and more than the World Health Organization. For the last five decades, they have been a leading force in the developing world, providing humanitarian aid (or “cooperation,” as …
Rescuing Our Roots
The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba
Häftad, 2015
841 kr
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In the early twentieth century, laborers from the British West Indies immigrated to Cuba, attracted by employment opportunities. The Anglo-Caribbean diaspora flourished,but the years after the 1959 revolution saw the dismantling of many of their cultural institutions: the revolution dictated that …
Cuban Revelations
Behind the Scenes in Havana
Av Marc Frank
Häftad, 2015
227 kr
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As a U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Mark Frank has observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother. …
Cuba in a Global Context
International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism
Häftad, 2016
344 kr
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There is a great deal more to Cuba's place on the global stage than its contentious relationship with the United States. Taking a refreshing look at Cuban international relations, contributors to this volume from both inside and outside the island explore the myriad ways in which it has not only …
Afro-Cuban Voices
On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba
Av Pedro Pérez Sarduy, Jean Stubbs
Häftad, 2020
300 kr
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From the forewords: "At a time when Cuba is undergoing immense economic and social changes, race becomes a kind of cultural litmus test for the national identity. . . . This anthology illustrates fully that it is possible to be both revolutionary and black in Cuba." - Manning Marable, Columbia …
Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería
Speaking a Sacred World
Häftad, 2025
304 kr
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An insightful ethnographic account of the lives of Santería practitioners in CubaHow do Santería practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst tensions, disagreements, and competition among them, and in the absence of centralized institutional authority? What serves as the …
Cuba's Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World
Inbunden, 2002
682 kr
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This volume emphasizes two key aspects of Cuba's foreign relations: the country's adjustment since the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc, and the ongoing confrontation between Cuba and the United States. The author proposes that Cuba has been highly sensitive to independence on an external power.
Culture and the Cuban Revolution
Conversations in Havana
Av John M. Kirk, Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Inbunden, 2001
700 kr
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This unusual collaboration between a Cuban novelist and a Canadian professor offers uncensored and frank interviews with prominent figures of contemporary Cuban cultural life, from a Grammy-winning jazz artist to world-class filmmakers and actors, writers, ballet dancers, and dramatists. In recent …
Cuba Today and Tomorrow
Reinventing Socialism
Av Max Azicri
Häftad, 2001
282 kr
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Unlikely to gratify those with strong views on either side of the political divide, Max Azicri's study provides an intelligent, scholarly response to the current questions posed by the Cuban Revolution. Covering the turbulent period of the 1990s, the book examines such issues as the impact on Cuba …
Santeria Healing
A Journey Into the Afro-Cuban World of Divinities, Spirits and Sorcery
Av University Press of Florida
Inbunden, 2003
682 kr
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Offering a visit inside the world of Santeria healing, this book draws upon extensive fieldwork in contemporary Cuba, including interviews with Santeria devotees, firsthand observations of divination sessions and interviews with healed patients, with comments from Santeria healers.
U.S.-Cuban Cooperation Past, Present, and Future
Inbunden, 2007
682 kr
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The United States and Cuba actually cooperate on several issues of mutual interest. This intriguing pattern of U.S.-Cuban cooperation emerged during the 1990s. Naked self-interest led the two governments to cooperate in four areas: illegal immigration, drug trafficking, decreasing tensions around …
Gender and Democracy in Cuba
Av University Press of Florida
Häftad, 2009
329 kr
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In this comprehensive examination of Cuban gender politics and democracy, Ilja Luciak examines the indispensable roles women played in the Cuban revolution and traces the progress of women's social and economic rights brought about by the early revolutionary government. Although the revolution …
Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy
Av Al Campbell
Inbunden, 2013
931 kr
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Most scholarship on the Cuban economy looks at the island nation from the outside in. Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy is the first collection to bring together some of the island’s leading economists to discuss the good and the bad about their own economy. These thirteen voices--seldom …
