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Prieto
Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba During the Age of Revolutions
Häftad, 2019
431 kr
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This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy …
Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 2011
519 kr
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Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available …
Nation for All
Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Häftad, 2001
548 kr
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After 30 years of anti-colonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well-represented, had …
State and Revolution in Cuba
Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940
Häftad, 2001
519 kr
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Illuminates a critical period in Cuba's political evolution Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period are crucial to a full understanding of the nation's political evolution, yet they …
Conflicting Missions
Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Häftad, 2003
563 kr
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Based on unprecedented research in Cuban, American and European archives, this is an account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with US policy towards the continent. Piero Gleijeses aims to shed new light on US foreign policy and CIA covert operations, …
Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba
Resistance and Repression
Häftad, 2003
548 kr
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Combining archaeological and historical methods, Gabino La Rosa Corzo provides the most detailed and accurate available account of the runaway slave settlements ( palenques ) that formed in the inaccessible mountain chains of eastern Cuba from 1737 to 1850, decades before the end of slavery on the …
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity
Häftad, 2004
533 kr
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Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist …
Measures of Equality
Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940
Häftad, 2004
519 kr
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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 …
Myth of José Martí
Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
Häftad, 2005
519 kr
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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. …
Writing to Cuba
Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Av Rodrigo Lazo
Häftad, 2005
580 kr
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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 …
Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Häftad, 2006
475 kr
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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. …
Cuba and the Tempest
Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora
Häftad, 2006
580 kr
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In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo …
1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery
Häftad, 2006
475 kr
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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, …
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba
An Environmental History Since 1492
Häftad, 2008
519 kr
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This is the story of Cuba's forests.In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island's landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of …
War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898
Häftad, 2008
490 kr
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Who defeated Spain? From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the ""Splendid Little War"" of the Americans in 1898, according to John Tone, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars …
On Location in Cuba
Street Filmmaking During Times of Transition
Häftad, 2009
490 kr
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This title presents resilient and entrepreneurial approaches to audiovisual art in Cuba. The 1990s were a time of dramatic transformation for Cuba. With the collapse of its Cold War relationship with the Soviet Union, the island nation plummeted into an era of scarcity and uncertainty known as the …
Forging Diaspora
Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow
Häftad, 2010
475 kr
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This book attempts to document diaspora among neighbors. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In ""Forging …
Chinese Cubans
A Transnational History
Häftad, 2013
475 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous ""coolie"" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured labourers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for …
Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920
Häftad, 2013
475 kr
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Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. Tiffany A. Sippial argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba's struggle to define itself as a modern nation found focus in the …
Revolution Is for the Children
The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962
Häftad, 2014
475 kr
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Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that ""the revolution is for the children."" Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of ""Castro-communism."" Anita Casavantes …
Visions of Power in Cuba
Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971
Häftad, 2014
519 kr
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In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba's six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations …
Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. In Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic, Melina Pappademos analyzes the racial politics and …
Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental …
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba
Passion, Politics, and Memory
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral …
Rhythms of Race
Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960
Häftad, 2015
475 kr
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Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha chá. In her history of music and race in midcentury America, …
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba
La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844
Häftad, 2015
475 kr
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Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not …
Revolution Within the Revolution
Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962
Häftad, 2015
475 kr
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A handful of celebrated photographs show armed, fatigues-clad female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success only now receives comprehensive consideration in Michelle …
Antiracism in Cuba
The Unfinished Revolution
Häftad, 2016
390 kr
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Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate …
Madhouse
Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
Inbunden, 2017
1236 kr
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On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as …
Madhouse
Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
Häftad, 2017
475 kr
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On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as …
