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Winds of Change
The University of North Carolina Press 2001; US$ 28.95The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history. Always vulnerable to hurricanes, Cuba was ravaged in 1842, 1844, and 1846 by three catastrophic... more...
Cuba in the American Imagination
The University of North Carolina Press 2008; US$ 27.50For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the... more...
The War of 1898
The University of North Carolina Press 1998; US$ 25.00A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years of American historical writing. Offering both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate history of the war informed by Cuban sources, Perez explores the assumptions that have shaped... more...
On Becoming Cuban
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 28.95With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from... more...
Japan at War: An Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO 2013; US$ 100.00This compelling reference focuses on the events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that shaped Japanese warfare from early times to the present day. more...
Modern Japan
Westview Press 2012; US$ 50.00A thoughtful and richly detailed survey of modern Japanese history from the Tokugawa period to the present. more...
Hitler's Man in Havana
The University Press of Kentucky 2008; US$ 29.95At the beginning of World War II, Heinz August L?ning, posing as a Jewish refugee, was sent to Cuba to spy for the Third Reich. L?ning's assignment was to collect information about the United States and its allies and report back to Abwehr, the German foreign intelligence agency. The Caribbean waters L?ning monitored were important to the Allies both... more...
Border Rhetorics
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 34.95Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship,... more...
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