Cuban Studies 36

Cuban Studies 36
Author: Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2005-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822971003

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. This volume contains articles on economics, politics, racial and gender issues, and the exodus of Cuban Jewry in the early 1960s, among others.

The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered

The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Author: Samuel Farber
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807877093

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. policies or domestic socioeconomic conditions, Farber shows that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions, although not necessarily according to a master plan. Exploring how historical conflicts between U.S. and Cuban interests colored the reactions of both nations' leaders after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, Farber argues that the structure of Cuba's economy and politics in the first half of the twentieth century made the island ripe for radical social and economic change, and the ascendant Soviet Union was on hand to provide early assistance. Taking advantage of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents as well as biographical and narrative literature from Cuba, Farber focuses on three key years to explain how the Cuban rebellion rapidly evolved from a multiclass, antidictatorial movement into a full-fledged social revolution.

Cuban Studies 37

Cuban Studies 37
Author: Louis A. Pérez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822971089

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 37 includes articles on environmental law, economics, African influence in music, irreverent humor in postrevolutionary fiction, international education flow between the United States and Cuba, and poetry, among others. Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®, an award-winning online database of full-text scholarly journals. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.

Cuban Studies 33

Cuban Studies 33
Author: Lisandro Perez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822970716

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Writing to Cuba

Writing to Cuba
Author: Rodrigo Lazo
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0807829307

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 create

Cuban Studies 34

Cuban Studies 34
Author: Lisandro Perez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822970805

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience

Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience
Author: C. Peters
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2012-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137119284

Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola.

Cuban Studies 31

Cuban Studies 31
Author: Lisandro Perez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2000-12-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822970562

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Chinese Cubans

Chinese Cubans
Author: Kathleen López
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1469607123

In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers 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 better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish-language sources in both China and Cuba, Kathleen Lopez explores the transition of the Chinese from indentured to free migrants, the formation of transnational communities, and the eventual incorporation of the Chinese into the Cuban citizenry during the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese Cubans shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, Lopez draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Alejandro de la Fuente
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807878065

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 local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of Havana into a vibrant Atlantic port city and the fastest-growing urban center in the Americas in the late sixteenth century. He shows how local ambitions took advantage of the imperial design and situates Havana within the slavery and economic systems of the colonial Atlantic.