"Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors -- it has required workers. This revealing h…
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler's The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa. In The Island Called Paradise, Philip D. Beidler shares his personal discovery o…
A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler's The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa. In The Island Called Paradise, Philip D. Beidler shares his personal discovery o…
"New York became the primary destination for Cuban émigrés in search of an education, opportunity, wealth, to start a new life or forget an old one, to evade royal authority, plot a revolution, experience freedom, or to buy and sell goods. While many of their stories ended tragi…
Introduction: New York stories -- Part I. Sugar: 1823-1868 -- The port -- Exiles, sojourners, and annexationists -- An emerging community and a rising activism -- Part II. War: 1868-1895 -- War and exodus -- Cuban New York in the 1870s -- Waging a war in Cuba ... and in New York…
More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today's prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest community of Latin Americans in the nineteenth-century Northeast. This book brin…
More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today's prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest community of Latin Americans in the nineteenth-century Northeast. This book brin…
Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past.
"In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty th…
"Author is a Cuban defector and former intelligence agent who claims that he never was a Communist, merely a fidelista. Reader will have to decide the extent to which he may be believed"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
"Author is a Cuban defector and former intelligence agent who claims that he never was a Communist, merely a fidelista. Reader will have to decide the extent to which he may be believed"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
"Author is a Cuban defector and former intelligence agent who claims that he never was a Communist, merely a fidelista. Reader will have to decide the extent to which he may be believed"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, Current offers a fresh approach to a topic that has received a fair amount of attention. She questions traditional narratives on first and second wave Cuban immigration that construct a monolithic Cuban experience and identity. This tradi…