Caribbean West Indian category: 313 books
Il libretto rosso di Cuba
Il Líder Maximo spiega la giustizia sociale e difende la causa della rivoluzione
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Il 26 luglio del 1953, un pugno di rivoluzionari guidati da Fidel Castro decide di dare "l'assalto al cielo" e, tentando il tutto per tutto, attacca due importanti avamposti militari cubani. La sortita è costretta a fare i conti con le avversità delle circostanze e si conclude in una disfatta....
Forging Diaspora
Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
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 Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships...
by Orestes Lorenzo
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
"A moving testament, his narrative provides an insider's look at the Castro regime's personality cult, its indoctrination of children and surveillance of ordinary Cubans. " - Publishers Weekly
In December 1992 Orestes Lorenzo undertook the most daring journey of his life. More than...
by Aurelius Victor, Nicolas-Auguste Dubois
Language: French
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Vers l’an sept cent vingt-deux de la fondation de la ville, on reprit, à Rome, l’usage d’obéir entièrement à un seul chef. Octavien, fils d’Octavius, et adopté par César, son grand-oncle ; Octavien, qu’un sénatus-consulte surnomma...
Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile
On the Road in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
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...
North of Havana
The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
From one of America’s leading legal minds, a riveting look at the U.S.-Cuban relationship seen through the lens of a nearly impossible case
During his distinguished career, Martin Garbus has established himself as a well-known trial lawyer representing the likes of Daniel Ellsberg and Leonard...
The Last Soldiers of the Cold War
The Story of the Cuban Five
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Here is the story of political prisoners finally freed in December 2014, after being held captive by the United States since the late 1990s.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting...
Ever Faithful
Race, Loyalty, and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this groundbreaking history, David Sartorius explores the relationship between...
Piero Gleijeses' International History of the Cold War in Southern Africa, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Conflicting Missions and Visions of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This Omnibus E-Book brings together Piero Gleijeses's two landmark books for the first time:
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval,...
Gobernar colonias, administrar almas
Poder colonial y órdenes religiosas en los imperios ibéricos (1808-1930)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2018
El presente libro versa sobre el papel de la Iglesia católica y sus misiones en los Imperios ibéricos del siglo xix y el primer tercio del siglo xx. En concreto, aborda las relaciones entre el poder civil y el eclesiástico en contextos coloniales en un período de intensa modernización de las...
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
La promulgación de la Constitución de 1978 implicó la culminación de la llamada Transición Española, que tuvo lugar como consecuencia de la muerte, el 20 de noviembre de 1975, del anterior jefe del Estado, el general Francisco Franco, precipitando una serie de acontecimientos políticos e históricos...
by J.A. Roy Bodden
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Describing himself as a ‘self-imposed griot and poet’, J.A. Roy Bodden turns to the medium of verse to utter an anguished cry for his beloved Cayman Islands. The metaphoric ‘broken mirror’ in the title of this collection of poetry represents a Caymanian society that is fractured and rudderless,...
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent...
by Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo (Condesa de Merlin)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Mis doce primeros años relata la infancia de la condesa de Merlin, su reclusión en un convento habanero, sus intentos de fuga del mismo entre otras diversas peripecias adolescentes. Estas memorias son asimismo un libro de viajes a través del Atlántico, Cadiz, Sevilla, Aranjuez y Madrid. Ciudad...