A Selected List of Books on Cuba
Author | : Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gregory Cochran |
Publisher | : Stranger Journalism |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465002218 |
Two leading researchers make the controversial argument that the human species is still measurably evolving in important ways--in fact, faster than ever before.
Author | : Richard Gott |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300111149 |
A thorough examination of the history of the controversial island country looks at little-known aspects of its past, from its pre-Columbian origins to the fate of its native peoples, complete with up-to-date information on Cuba's place in a post-Soviet world.
Author | : Ada Ferrer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501154575 |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; “readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope” (The Economist). Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States—as well as the author’s own extensive travel to the island over the same period—this is a stunning and monumental account like no other.
Author | : Ramiro Fernández |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2007-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780811860536 |
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, this work takes a look at Cuban history seen through the collection of Ramiro Fernandez, the world's largest archive of Cuban photos and ephemera.
Author | : Julia Cooke |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1580055311 |
Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa. This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today. Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.
Author | : Jorge J. E. Gracia |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2020-07-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0761872140 |
Although much has been written about Cuba after Castro, relatively little has been written about Cuba before Castro. The political reality of Castro’s Revolution has created a historical void about this period, paying insufficient attention to an important century before 1959. Cuba has become a political punching bag, between supporters and critics of Castro and the Revolution, making it difficult to understand real life in Cuba because of the disproportionate preoccupation with, and monopoly of, the political reality on the island. In spite of some attempts, it continues to be easier and perceived as more pressing, to write about politics rather than the reality that Cubans experienced in their daily lives— their sufferings and celebrations, successes and failures, lives and deaths, and beliefs and disbeliefs. Going for and against the avalanche of information about the political authenticity in and out of Cuba, most Cubans have tended to forget that Cuba is much larger than the perceived reality after Castro’s Revolution. Too many have failed to remember the Cubans who have lived and worked in Cuba in the century before an important period of Cuban history where the nation was forged. Indeed, even limited attention reveals a rich and sophisticated society that calls for study. In this book Jorge J.E. Gracia approaches this situation by telling true stories about some members of his family (Doctor Ignacio Gracia, Maruca Otero, the Marques de Arguelles, and many others) who lived during a culturally rich century before Castro. He hopes to entice historians, academics, tourists and others, to pursue a balanced exploration of the island by telling part of their stories. This enterprise is neither history nor fiction, but memories written by a Cuban who left Cuba when he was eighteen years old and has become a distinguished philosopher in the United States.
Author | : Manuel Márquez-Sterling |
Publisher | : Kleiopatria Digital Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : 0615318568 |
Author Manuel Márquez-Sterling writes about Fidel Castro and his revolution from direct personal experience, as a historian with broad and deep knowledge of 50s Cuba. The author knew and had contact with many of the historical figures in the book's pages. His penetrating analysis of the public and behind-the-scenes events clears the fog and shatters myths to reveal the real story of the Cuban Revolution. The book explains how Castro came to power through the convergence of rabid partisanship, radical student politics, media bias, and venal politicians who placed self interest ahead of preserving democracy. Facing a constitutional crisis, these parties espoused "the end justifies the means," embracing political gangsterism and eschewing negotiations with political opponents- resulting in a power vacuum Castro exploited to seize power. Masterful propaganda cast Castro as pro-democracy hero, avoiding scrutiny of his plans for a totalitarian state under his control.
Author | : Miguel A. Faria |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cristina Garcia |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476710244 |
A Fidel Castro-like octogenarian Cuban exile obsessively seeks revenge against the dictator.