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Author : Cuba Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores,Minerva Roque,Arturo Bada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:186823306
Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9785855289930
Cuba is a unique and fascinating country located in the Caribbean Sea, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. With a population of over 11 million people, it is the largest island nation in the Caribbean, and its capital city of Havana is a vibrant hub of culture, music, and history. Cuba has a rich cultural heritage and a complex political history, having undergone numerous changes since its discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492. From Spanish colonialism to communist rule under Fidel Castro, Cuba has faced challenges and triumphs throughout its history, and its people have shown remarkable resilience in the face of adversity. Cuba’s geography is characterized by beautiful beaches, lush forests, and stunning mountains. The island has a tropical climate, with warm temperatures year-round, making it a popular destination for tourists looking to escape the winter chill. Its economy is centered around agriculture, including crops such as tobacco, sugar cane, and coffee, and it also relies heavily on its thriving tourism industry. While the country has faced economic hardship and political tensions in recent years, Cubans remain proud of their rich cultural traditions, including music, dance, and art. With a unique blend of Spanish, African, and Native American influences, Cuba’s culture and history are unlike any other.
Author : Muriel L. Dubois
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736837493
Provides an introduction to Cuba using a question-and-answer format that discusses land features, government, housing, transportation, industries, education, sports, art forms, holidays, food, and family life. Includes a map, facts, and charts.
Author : Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy,Oscar Loyola-Vega
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780987228345
Competitively priced, this book is the perfect companion to the more than thirty travel guides on Cuba available today. Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally ending with Fidel Castro's decision to step down in 2008, this slim volume provides the reader with an overview of the history of the tiny Caribbean island that so often has been at the center of world politics. Including a bibliography for further reading, this is a most useful introduction to Cuba's history for students, teachers, and others, as well as those visiting the island. This book is published to coincide with the expected lifting of the US government's ban on its citizens' travel to Cuba and will be actively marketed through travel agencies, in-flight magazines, and more. Available in both English (978-0-9804292-4-4) and Spanish (978-1-921438-60-8). Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy, a professor at the University of Havana, obtained a doctorate in history at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of numerous books on Latin American history and is currently the executive secretary of the Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians. Oscar Loyola-Vega is a professor of history at the University of Havana.
Author : Tamara L Britton
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616137885
An introduction to the history, geography, plants, animals, government, economy, cities, transportation, people, social life and customs of Cuba, the largest island in the West Indies.
Author : Richard Gott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300111142
A thorough examination of the history of the controversial island country looks at little-known aspects of its past, from its pre-Columbian origins to the fate of its native peoples, complete with up-to-date information on Cuba's place in a post-Soviet world.
Author : Resistance Books
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 1876646063
Author : Karen Dubinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Havana (Cuba)
ISBN : 1771132698
Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents--old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors--go about their daily lives. As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate, and learn from, in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen's University Student Overseas Travel Fund--The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange.
Author : Aviva Chomsky,Pamela Maria Smorkaloff,Barry Carr
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822384915
Cuba is often perceived in starkly black and white terms—either as the site of one of Latin America’s most successful revolutions or as the bastion of the world’s last communist regime. The Cuba Reader multiplies perspectives on the nation many times over, presenting more than one hundred selections about Cuba’s history, culture, and politics. Beginning with the first written account of the island, penned by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the selections assembled here track Cuban history from the colonial period through the ascendancy of Fidel Castro to the present. The Cuba Reader combines songs, paintings, photographs, poems, short stories, speeches, cartoons, government reports and proclamations, and pieces by historians, journalists, and others. Most of these are by Cubans, and many appear for the first time in English. The writings and speeches of José Martí, Fernando Ortiz, Fidel Castro, Alejo Carpentier, Che Guevera, and Reinaldo Arenas appear alongside the testimonies of slaves, prostitutes, doctors, travelers, and activists. Some selections examine health, education, Catholicism, and santería; others celebrate Cuba’s vibrant dance, music, film, and literary cultures. The pieces are grouped into chronological sections. Each section and individual selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the editors. The volume presents a number of pieces about twentieth-century Cuba, including the events leading up to and following Castro’s January 1959 announcement of revolution. It provides a look at Cuba in relation to the rest of the world: the effect of its revolution on Latin America and the Caribbean, its alliance with the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989, and its tumultuous relationship with the United States. The Cuba Reader also describes life in the periodo especial following the cutoff of Soviet aid and the tightening of the U.S. embargo. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction.
Author : Julia E Sweig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199740819
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of America's leading experts on Cuba and Latin America, presents a concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years. Yet it is authoritative as well. Following a scene-setting introduction that describes the dynamics unleashed since summer 2006 when Fidel Castro transferred provisional power to his brother Raul, the book looks backward toward Cuba's history since the Spanish American War before shifting to more recent times. Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the post-Cold War era, and-finally-the looming post-Fidel era. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it will serve as the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
Author : Rius
Publisher : Pathfinder
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018204402
Presented in political cartoon style by the well-known Mexican cartoonist.
Author : Philip Brenner,John M. Kirk,William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538136836
Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new commercial relations in an international system dominated by market economies. The resulting economic reforms have reverberated through Cuban society and politics, recreating social inequalities unknown since the 1950s and confronting the political system with unprecedented new challenges. The resulting ferment is increasingly evident in Cuban cultural expression, and the responses to adversity and scarcity have reshaped Cuban social relations. Cuba today faces new challenges with the transition to a new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and renewed hostility from the Trump administration. This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba today. This concise overview focuses on Cuba since Raúl Castro stepped down as president, bringing together leading scholars to analyze politics, economics, foreign policy, and society in present-day Cuba. Ideally suited for students and all those seeking to understand this still contentious and controversial island, the book includes a substantive introduction setting the historical context, as well as a chronology and primary source documents.
Author : Roger E. Hernández
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 1422206904
Cuba's countryside is a luxuriant green, graced by majestic palms that sway in the tropical breeze. The beaches have fine white sands and crystal clear waters. The people of Cuba have added to the natural beauty. This book teaches 12 year olds and up about the geography, history, economy, and culture of the nation.
Author : Jane Franklin
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007484158
Sections of this book were previously published in 1992 as 'The Cuban Revolution and the United States: A Chronological History.' Account of the relationship between Cuba and the US from the 1959 Cuban revolution to 1995 Includes an overview of Cuban history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Includes a glossary and an index. The author is a contributing editor to 'Cuba Update ' the journal of the Centre for Cuban Studies, and is the author of 'Cuban Foreign Relations: A Chronology'.
Author : Aviva Chomsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118942284
A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the book’s coverage of Cuba over the past decade under Raul Castro All of the existing chapters have been updated to reflect recent scholarship Balances social and historical insight into the revolution with economic and political analysis extending into the twenty-first century Juxtaposes U.S. and Cuban perspectives on the historical impact of the revolution, engaging and debunking the myths and preconceptions surrounding one of the most formative political events of the twentieth century Incorporates more student-friendly features such as a timeline and glossary