Cuba And Puerto Rico

Author : Reinaldo L. Román
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 080788894X

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Governing Spirits by Reinaldo L. Román Pdf

Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions openly and to proselytize. When government efforts to ensure freedom of worship began, reformers on both islands rejoiced, believing that an era of regeneration and modernization was upon them. But as new laws went into effect, critics voiced their dismay at the rise of popular religions. Reinaldo L. Roman explores the changing relationship between regulators and practitioners in neocolonial Cuba and Puerto Rico. Spiritism, Santeria, and other African-derived traditions were typically characterized in sensational fashion by the popular press as "a plague of superstition." Examining seven episodes between 1898 and the Cuban Revolution when the public demanded official actions against "misbelief," Roman finds that when outbreaks of superstition were debated, matters of citizenship were usually at stake. He links the circulation of spectacular charges of witchcraft and miracle-making to anxieties surrounding newly expanded citizenries that included people of color. Governing Spirits also contributes to the understanding of vernacular religions by moving beyond questions of national or traditional origins to illuminate how boundaries among hybrid practices evolved in a process of historical contingencies.

Author : Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822971986

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Empire and Antislavery by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Pdf

In 1872, there were more than 300,000 slaves in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Though the Spanish government had passed a law for gradual abolition in 1870, slaveowners, particularly in Cuba, clung tenaciously to their slaves as unfree labor was at the core of the colonial economies. Nonetheless, people throughout the Spanish empire fought to abolish slavery, including the Antillean and Spanish liberals and republicans who founded the Spanish Abolitionist Society in 1865. This book is an extensive study of the origins of the Abolitionist Society and its role in the destruction of Cuban and Puerto Rican slavery and the reshaping of colonial politics.

Author : C. D. Tyng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Havana (Cuba)
ISBN : WISC:89095796835

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The Stranger in the Tropics by C. D. Tyng Pdf

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501154560

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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by Ada Ferrer Pdf

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued--through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raúl Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country's future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington--Barack Obama's opening to the island, Donald Trump's reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden--have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious chronicle written for an era that demands a new reckoning with the island's past. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History reveals the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Along the way, Ferrer explores the influence of the United States on Cuba and the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States--as well as the author's own extensive travel to the island over the same period--this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. --

Author : Carmen Haydée Rivera,Jorge Duany
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683403494

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Cuba and Puerto Rico by Carmen Haydée Rivera,Jorge Duany Pdf

The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their diasporas This volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and their diasporas. Topics range from historical and anthropological perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico before and during the Cold War to cultural and sociological studies of diasporic communities in the United States. The volume features analyses of political coalitions, the formation of interisland sororities, and environmental issues. Along with sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food, musical, and religious practices. Contributors also discuss literature by Cuban and Puerto Rican authors by examining the aesthetics of literary techniques and discourses, the representation of psychological space on the stage, and the impacts of migration. Showing how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been linked together for centuries and how they have diverged recently, Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of this intricate relationship and the formation of diasporic communities and continuities. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Author : Susan Garver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cuban Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1029265647

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Coming to North America: from Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico by Susan Garver Pdf

Explores the immigrant experiences of Mexicans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans in the United States.

Author : Reinaldo L. Román
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807831410

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Governing Spirits by Reinaldo L. Román Pdf

Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during the Spanish-American War were non-Catholics permitted to practice their religions openly and to proselytize. When government efforts to ensure

Author : David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Seymour Drescher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521840682

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804 by David Eltis,Stanley L. Engerman,Keith R. Bradley,Paul Cartledge,Seymour Drescher Pdf

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

Author : Susan Garver,Paula McGuire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010631955

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Coming to North America: from Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico by Susan Garver,Paula McGuire Pdf

Explores the immigrant experiences of Mexicans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans in the United States.

Author : Jay P. Dolan,Jaime R. Vidal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173020683658

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Puerto Rican and Cuban Catholics in the U.S., 1900-1965 by Jay P. Dolan,Jaime R. Vidal Pdf

This is a historical analysis of the Puerto Rican and Cuban American Catholic experience, beginning with their roots in the history of their homelands up to the closing of Vatican II. These people are difficult to assimilate into the Church as they do not see thenselves as permanently in the US.

Author : Richard Harding Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Cuba
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002427297

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The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns by Richard Harding Davis Pdf

Author : Howard Benjamin Grose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436961483

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Advance in the Antilles: The New Era in Cuba and Puerto Rico (1910) by Howard Benjamin Grose Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Cuba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058890898

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Constitution Establishing Self-government in the Islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico by Cuba Pdf

Author : Hans-Jürgen Burchardt,Johanna Leinius
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472902606

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(Post-)colonial Archipelagos by Hans-Jürgen Burchardt,Johanna Leinius Pdf

The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippines—these topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powers—by the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United States—research in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts. Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Instead of focusing on the legacies of US colonialism, the continuing legacies of Spanish colonialism are put center-stage. The analyses offered in the volume yield new and surprising insights into the study of colonial and postcolonial constellations that are of interest not only for experts, but also for readers interested in the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines during Spanish colonization and in the present. The empirical material profits from a rigorous and systematic analytical framework and is thus easily accessible for students, researchers, and the interested public alike.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Hispanics in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309096676

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Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Hispanics in the United States Pdf

Given current demographic trends, nearly one in five U.S. residents will be of Hispanic origin by 2025. This major demographic shift and its implications for both the United States and the growing Hispanic population make Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies a most timely book. This report from the National Research Council describes how Hispanics are transforming the country as they disperse geographically. It considers their roles in schools, in the labor market, in the health care system, and in U.S. politics. The book looks carefully at the diverse populations encompassed by the term "Hispanic," representing immigrants and their children and grandchildren from nearly two dozen Spanish-speaking countries. It describes the trajectory of the younger generations and established residents, and it projects long-term trends in population aging, social disparities, and social mobility that have shaped and will shape the Hispanic experience.