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An Island Called Homeby Ruth Behar
Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it Hotel Cuba. But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn Europe stayed in Cuba. The beloved island ceased to be a hotel, and Cuba eventually became home. But after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the majority of the Jews opposed his communist regime and left in a mass exodus. Though they remade their lives in the United States, they mourned the loss of the Jewish community they had built on the island. As a child of five, Ruth Behar was caught up in the Jewish exodus from Cuba. Growing up... more...
Jews of the Dutch Caribbeanby Alan F. Benjamin
Routledge 2002; US$ 115.00This book examines the contexts of identity and ethnicity, through a detailed study of a little-known group in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, with an intriguing history. more...
Tutu Archaeological Village Siteby Elizabeth Righter; Anna Roosevelt
Routledge 2002; US$ 260.00This volume reports the results of techniques for understanding of human adaptive strategies during 1.300 years of site occupation. These investigations lay a solid foundation for future studies of prehistoric Caribbean human populations more...
Cuba After Castroby Edward Gonzalez; Kevin F. McCarthy
RAND Corporation 2004; US$ 9.95When the end of the Castro era arrives, the successor government and theCuban people will need to answer certain questions: How is Castro?s morethan four-decade rule likely to affect a post-Castro Cuba? What will be thepolitical, social, and economic challenges Cuba will confront? What are theimpediments to Cuba?s economic development and democratic transition? Theauthors examine Castro?s political legacies, Cuba?s generational and racialdivisions, its demographic predicament, the legacy of a centralized economy,and the need for industrial restructuring. more...
Cuban Revolutionby Dr Geraldine Lievesley
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 109.00The Cuban Revolution offers a reflective account of what the Revolution has meant to various actors such as the dominant powers, the Third World, fellow revolutionaries, intellectuals and Cuban citizens at different periods in its history. Rather than offer a simple narrative of events, Geraldine Lievesley addresses significant themes with which the Revolution has engaged and the problems that it has encountered. more...
Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cubaby Mark Q. Sawyer
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 22.00This book analyzes the triumphs and failures of the Castro regime in the area of race relations. This book challenges arguments that the regime eliminated racial inequality or that it was profoundly racist. Through interviews, historical materials, and survey research, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba provides a balanced view. more...
History Of Jamaicaby William James Gardner
Taylor & Francis 1971; US$ 140.00This systematic history of Jamaica was written after the abolition of slavery by a man imbued with a sense of 18th-century liberalism. It is based on public records and archives, and a selection of pamphlet literature. more...
The Life And Times Of Henry Clarke Of Jamaica, 1828-1907by James Walvin
Taylor & Francis 1994; US$ 68.95This volume describes the life of Henry Clarke, a teacher, a cleric politician, a businessman, an inventor, and the father of eleven children who lived in Jamaica for the last 60 years of his life. more...
Global Culture, Island Identityby Karen Fog Olwig
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 44.95The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by a notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and ass more...
The Peoples of the Caribbeanby Nicholas J. Saunders
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 85.00This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the archaeology, folklore and mythology of the entire Caribbean region. Drawing on decades of study in the Caribbean and South America, it explores archaeological sites, like Caguana in Puerto Rico and plantation sites, like Jamaica's Drax hall. more...