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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...
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$ 69.95This 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...
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...
Child of the Revolutionby Luis M. Garcia
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...
None of the Aboveby Frances Negrón-Muntaner
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00None of the Above is a state-of-the-art volume about current debates regarding Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, both in the United States and on the Island. The title simultaneously refers to the results of a non-binding 1998 plebiscite held in San Juan to determine the Island's political status, the ambiguities that have historically characterized Puerto Rican political agency, and the complexities of Puerto Rican ethnic, national, and cultural identifications. more...
Paradise Lostby Philippe Girard
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 17.00Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why has the United States felt a need to repeatedly intervene in Haiti's affairs? This book answers these and other questions. It examines how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both within Haiti and internationally, as Haitians remain suspicious of white foreigners' motives. more...
Sound Clashby Carolyn Cooper
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00"Sound Clash" is the first in-depth look at Jamaican dancehall music and culture, a feisty and dynamic music featuring bawdy "sound clashes" in which DJs battle to win the glory of the dance hall. This is the first accessible book on a music form that is drawing more and more attention in the United States. more...
The History of Cubaby Clifford L. Staten
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 Soviet Union. more...









