Che S Chevrolet Fidel S Oldsmobile

Author : Richard Schweid
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807888629

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Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile by Richard Schweid Pdf

Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba today and yesterday, gets behind the wheel and behind the stereotype in this colorful chronicle of cars, buses, and trucks. In his captivating, sometimes gritty, voice, Schweid blends previously untapped historical sources with his personal experiences, spinning a car-centered history of life on the island over the past century. Packard, Studebaker, Edsel, De Soto: cars long extinct in the United States can be seen at work every day on Cuba's streets. Havana and Santiago de Cuba today are home to some 60,000 North American cars, all dating back to at least 1959, the year the Cuban Revolution prevailed. Though hardly a new part has arrived in Cuba since 1960, the cars are still on the road, held together with mechanical ingenuity and willpower. Visiting car mechanics, tracking down records in dusty archives, and talking with car-crazy Cubans of all types, Schweid juxtaposes historic moments (Fidel Castro riding to the Bay of Pigs in an Oldsmobile) with the quotidian (a weary mother's two-cent bus ride home after a long day) and composes a rich, engaging picture of the Cuban people and their history. The narrative is complemented by fifty-two historic black-and-white photographs and eight color photographs by contemporary Cuban photographer Adalberto Roque.

Author : Matthew Kuperus Heun,Michael Carbajales-Dale,Becky Roselius Haney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319128207

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Beyond GDP by Matthew Kuperus Heun,Michael Carbajales-Dale,Becky Roselius Haney Pdf

This book uses the metaphor “The economy is society's metabolism” as a springboard to develop a rigorous theoretical framework for a better system of national accounts which goes “Beyond GDP” and is relevant to the age of resource depletion. Society is entering a new era in which biophysical limits related to natural resource extraction rates and the biosphere's waste assimilation capacity are becoming binding constraints on mature economies. Unfortunately, the data needed for policy-makers to understand and manage economic growth in this new era are not universally available. All stakeholders need a new way to understand our economy in the context of the biosphere’s ability to provide essential natural capital, and we suggest that detailed information about materials, energy, embodied energy, and energy intensity should be routinely gathered, analyzed, and disseminated from a centralized location to provide markets and policymakers with a more comprehensive understanding of the biophysical economy. However, a firm theoretical foundation is needed before proceeding along this new path, which this book is intended to provide. After arguing that the stock of manufactured capital is an important driver of material and energy demands imposed upon the biosphere, a new accounting framework is derived from the laws of thermodynamics to reflect the fact that material and embodied energy accumulate within the capital stock of economic sectors. This framework extends the Energy Input-Output (EI-O) techniques first developed by Bullard, Herendeen, and others to estimate energy intensity of economic products. Implications from the new framework are discussed, including the value of economic metrics for policy-making, the need for physically-based rather than product-based EI-O formulations, a re-assessment of the concept of economic “growth,” and an evaluation of recycling, reuse, and dematerialization. The framework also provides an opportunity to assess an array of definitions for Daly's “steady-state economy” in relation to the ideal of a sustainable economy. The book ends with a list of steps to be taken in creating a more comprehensive system of national accounts: National accounting agencies worldwide should develop and maintain balance sheets of both natural and manufactured capital in addition to national income statements All stocks and inter-sector flows should be provided in physical as well as financial units In the US, the Bureau for Economic Analysis (BEA) should restart detailed Capital, Labor, Energy, Material, and Services (KLEMS) reporting National accounting agencies should routinely estimate the energy intensity of economic products, and all of the above should be estimated and disseminated on an annual basis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175029470047

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. Javier Treviño
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469633114

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C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution by A. Javier Treviño Pdf

In C. Wright Mills and the Cuban Revolution, A. Javier Trevino reconsiders the opinions, perspectives, and insights of the Cubans that Mills interviewed during his visit to the island in 1960. On returning to the United States, the esteemed and controversial sociologist wrote a small paperback on much of what he had heard and seen, which he published as Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba. Those interviews--now transcribed and translated--are interwoven here with extensive annotations to explain and contextualize their content. Readers will be able to "hear" Mills as an expert interviewer and ascertain how he used what he learned from his informants. Trevino also recounts the experiences of four central figures whose lives became inextricably intertwined during that fateful summer of 1960: C. Wright Mills, Fidel Castro, Juan Arcocha, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The singular event that compelled their biographies to intersect at a decisive moment in the history of Cold War geopolitics--with its attendant animosities and intrigues--was the Cuban Revolution.

Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801461480

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Cars for Comrades by Lewis H. Siegelbaum Pdf

The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In this rich and often witty book, Lewis H. Siegelbaum recounts the life of the Soviet automobile and in the process gives us a fresh perspective on the history and fate of the USSR itself. Based on sources ranging from official state archives to cartoons, car-enthusiast magazines, and popular films, Cars for Comrades takes us from the construction of the huge "Soviet Detroits," emblems of the utopian phase of Soviet planning, to present-day Togliatti, where the fate of Russia's last auto plant hangs in the balance. The large role played by American businessmen and engineers in the checkered history of Soviet automobile manufacture is one of the book's surprises, and the author points up the ironic parallels between the Soviet story and the decline of the American Detroit. In the interwar years, automobile clubs, car magazines, and the popularity of rally races were signs of a nascent Soviet car culture, its growth slowed by the policies of the Stalinist state and by Russia's intractable "roadlessness." In the postwar years cars appeared with greater frequency in songs, movies, novels, and in propaganda that promised to do better than car-crazy America. Ultimately, Siegelbaum shows, the automobile epitomized and exacerbated the contradictions between what Soviet communism encouraged and what it provided. To need a car was a mark of support for industrial goals; to want a car for its own sake was something else entirely. Because Soviet cars were both hard to get and chronically unreliable, and such items as gasoline and spare parts so scarce, owning and maintaining them enmeshed citizens in networks of private, semi-illegal, and ideologically heterodox practices that the state was helpless to combat. Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic—and important—technologies and a novel approach to understanding the history of the Soviet Union itself.

Author : Paul Ryer
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826503862

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Beyond Cuban Waters by Paul Ryer Pdf

Twenty-first-century Cuba is a cultural stew. Tommy Hilfiger and socialism. Nike products and poverty in Africa. The New York Yankees and the meaning of "blackness." The quest for American consumer goods and the struggle in Africa for political and cultural independence inform the daily life of Cubans at every cultural level, as anthropologist Paul Ryer argues in Beyond Cuban Waters. Focusing on the everyday world of ordinary Cubans, this book examines Cuban understandings of the world and of Cuba's place in it, especially as illuminated by two contrasting notions: "La Yuma," a distinctly Cuban concept of the American experience, and "África," the ideological understanding of that continent's experience. Ryer takes us into the homes of Cuban families, out to the streets and nightlife of bustling cities, and on boat journeys that reach beyond the typical destinations, all to better understand the nature of the cultural life of a nation. This pursuit of Western status symbols represents a uniquely Cuban experience, set apart from other cultures pursuing the same things. In the Cuban case, this represents neither an acceptance nor rejection of the American cultural influence, but rather a co-opting or "Yumanizing" of these influences.

Author : Thomas K. Rudel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190921019

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Shocks, States, and Sustainability by Thomas K. Rudel Pdf

Introduction -- Radical environmental reforms : a theory -- The Great Plains : soil conservation during the "dirty thirties" -- England : green belts after World War II -- Cuba : agro-ecological farming after the Soviet collapse -- Coastal Maine : a catch and sometimes release lobster fishery -- The world : reforms in a global environmental cage -- Radical environmental reforms in comparative perspective -- Conclusions -- References

Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801463211

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The Socialist Car by Lewis H. Siegelbaum Pdf

Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The "socialist car"-and the car culture that built up around it-was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. In The Socialist Car, eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore in vivid detail the interface between the motorcar and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR. In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the socialist car embodied East Europeans' longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The socialist car represented both aspirations of overcoming the technological gap between the capitalist first and socialist second worlds and dreams of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility-shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways-prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. In this collective history, the authors put aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest of trying to understand the socialist car in its own context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113505635

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The Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : IND:30000111159913

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European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph L. Scarpaci,Armando H. Portela
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080901922

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Cuban Landscapes by Joseph L. Scarpaci,Armando H. Portela Pdf

This accessible book offers a vivid geographic portrait of Cuba, exploring the island’s streetscapes, sugar cane fields, beaches, and rural settlements; its billboards, government buildings, and national landmarks. The authors illuminate how natural and built landscapes have shaped Cuban identity (cubanidad), and vice versa. They provide a unique perspective on Cuba’s distinct historical periods and political economies, from the colonial period through republicanism and today’s socialist era. Compelling topics include the legacies of slavery and the sugar industry, the past and future of urban development, and the impact of “islandness” on sociocultural processes.

Author : James Alexander Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172148372584

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The Hispanic American Historical Review by James Alexander Robertson Pdf

Includes "Bibliographical section".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015066121404

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Book Review Index by Anonim Pdf

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043210

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Redaktion Osnabrück
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 3110230259

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