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Child of the Revolution
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 29.95What was it really like to grow up in Castro's people's paradise? With an evocative wide-eyed innocence, Luis M. Garcia takes us back to his childhood in this evocative memoir of growing up in 1960s Cuba. more...
The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean
UPF 2003; US$ 59.95?A major contribution to the scholarship of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean.?--A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland This volume provides an engaging interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexual relations in the Caribbean. more...
Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 105.00What would the island of Hispaniola look like if viewed as a loosely connected system? That is the question Haitian-Dominican Counterpointseeks to answer as it surveys the insular space shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic throughout their parallel histories. For beneath the familiar tale of hostilities, the systemic perspective reveals a lesser-known,... more...
The History of Cuba
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 16.00Cuba's history is told in eight chronological chapters in this book, from its earliest days as a Spanish colony, through its wars for independence, the US occupation in the twentieth-century, Cuba's various reform movements, Batista, the Cold War, and the so-called 'Special Period', when Cuba faced the crisis of the downfall of the... more...
The History of Havana
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 48.00Co-authored by a Cuban and an American, this work is a comprehensive history of the culturally diverse city. Beginning with the founding of Havana in 1519, it explores the making of the city and its people through revolutions, art, economic development and the interplay of diverse societies. more...
The Archaeology of the Caribbean
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00A comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from 4000 BC to AD 1700. more...
Journey To The Heart Of Cuba
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95This is the story of the Cuban Revolution and what caused it, the psychology of its protagonists, and a critical assessment of its results, by a. Cuban-born journalist, author and professor residing in Spain. In a disquieting epilogue, the author dares to more...
The History of Haiti
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 45.00Explore Haiti's difficult struggle through history in this comprehensive addition to the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series. more...
Smuggling
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 18.99Exploring the history of smuggling around the world, Alan L. Karras traces all aspects of this pervasive and enduring crime. Through a compelling set of cases drawn from a rich array of historical and contemporary sources, Karras shows how smuggling of every conceivable good has flourished in every place, at every time. The author also sets smugglers?the... more...
Seeds of Insurrection
LSU Press 2008; US$ 19.95In Seeds of Insurrection, Manuel Barcia examines many largely overlooked ways in which African and Creole slaves in Cuba defied domination in the first half of the nineteenth century.elying primarily on transcripts of local and central court proceedings involving slaves, free people of color, slave owners, and witnesses, Barcia reveals the slaves'... more...









