Cuba And The Caribbean

Author : Ivan Roksandic
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400127

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Cuban Archaeology in the Caribbean by Ivan Roksandic Pdf

"Changes the conversation about Cuban archaeology as a whole, presenting groundbreaking data and interpretations that will be useful for prehistoric and historical archaeologists working the region."--Samuel M. Wilson, author of The Archaeology of the Caribbean "Presents a collection of essays that will tremendously facilitate the linkage of issues in Cuban archaeology with the rest of the Caribbean and surrounding areas."--Peter E. Siegel, coeditor of Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean As the largest--and most centrally located--island of the Caribbean, Cuba has seen successive waves of migration to its shores. Its early colonization, and that of the Greater Antilles, is complicated by population movements within the Circum-Caribbean. In this volume, Ivan Roksandic and an international team of researchers present a new theory of mainland migration into the Caribbean. Through analysis of early agriculture, burial customs, dental modification, pottery production, and dietary patterns, the contributors enable a very close look at the lifeways and challenges of the native populations. They decipher patterns of movement between the islands and present-day Mexico and Central America and explore the interactions between the islands’ inhabitants, including the fate of indigenous groups after European contact. Together the essays produce a view of the early Caribbean that is rich with dynamic networks of exchange and matrixes of cultural influences, more intricate and multilinear than previously believed. With contributions from archaeology, physical anthropology, environmental archaeology, paleobotany, linguistics, and ethnohistory, this volume adds to ongoing debates concerning migration and colonization. It examines the importance of landscape and seascape in shaping human experience; the role that contact and interaction between different groups play in building identity; and the contribution of native groups to the biological and cultural identity of postcontact and modern societies. Ivan Roksandic, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Linguistics Program at the University of Winnipeg, is the author of The Ouroboros Seizes Its Tale: Strategies of Mythopoeia in Narrative Fiction. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Joseph S. Tulchin,Andrés Serbín,Rafael Hernández Rodríguez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0842026525

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Cuba and the Caribbean by Joseph S. Tulchin,Andrés Serbín,Rafael Hernández Rodríguez Pdf

Focuses on trends in the international and regional affairs of the Caribbean nations in the 1990s, with special attention given to the reintegration of Cuba into the hemispheric community. This volume contains 13 essays that were presented at a multinational workshop involving scholars from Cuba, Venezuela, the United States, and other countries.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Cuba
ISBN : LOC:00185447492

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Cuba and the Caribbean by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs Pdf

Author : Barry B Levine,Franklin W Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000303841

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The New Cuban Presence In The Caribbean by Barry B Levine,Franklin W Knight Pdf

The Caribbean area projects an image—not entirely accurate—of instability, and it is within that context that the United States and Cuba, the region's chief protagonists, struggle. This book explores in detail the history and nature of Cuba's influence in the Commonwealth Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America, as well as its relations wi

Author : Andrea J. Queeley
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813063089

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Rescuing Our Roots by Andrea J. Queeley Pdf

"Contributes new perspectives on historical black identity formation and contemporary activism in Cuba."--Choice "Provides invaluable insight into the histories and lives of Cubans who trace their origins to the Anglo-Caribbean."--Robert Whitney, author of State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940 "Adds a missing piece to the existing literature about the renewal of black activism in Cuba, all the while showing the links and fractures between pre- and post-1959 society."--Devyn Spence Benson, Davidson College In the early twentieth century, laborers from the British West Indies immigrated to Cuba, attracted by employment opportunities. The Anglo-Caribbean communities flourished, but after 1959, many of their cultural institutions were dismantled: the revolution dictated that in the name of unity there would be no hyphenated Cubans. This book turns an ethnographic lens on their descendants who--during the Special Period in the 1990s--moved to "rescue their roots" by revitalizing their ethnic associations and reestablishing ties outside the island. Based on Andrea J. Queeley's fieldwork in Santiago and Guantánamo, Rescuing Our Roots looks at local and regional identity formations as well as racial politics in revolutionary Cuba. Queeley argues that, as the island experienced a resurgence in racism due in part to the emergence of the dual economy and the reliance on tourism, Anglo-Caribbean Cubans revitalized their communities and sought transnational connections not just in the hope of material support but also to challenge the association between blackness, inferiority, and immorality. Their desire for social mobility, political engagement, and a better economic situation operated alongside the fight for black respectability. Unlike most studies of black Cubans, which focus on Afro-Cuban religion or popular culture, Queeley's penetrating investigation offers a view of strategies and modes of black belonging that transcend ideological, temporal, and spatial boundaries. A volume in the series Contemporary Cuba, edited by John M. Kirk

Author : Canadian Foundation for the Americas,Núñez, Gerardo González,Canadian Foundation for the Americas. Research Forum on Cuba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1896301835

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Cuba's Relations with the Caribbean [electronic Resource] : Trends and Future Prospects by Canadian Foundation for the Americas,Núñez, Gerardo González,Canadian Foundation for the Americas. Research Forum on Cuba Pdf

Author : Paolo Rinaldi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cuba
ISBN : OCLC:1244580252

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Cuba by Paolo Rinaldi Pdf

Author : Robert Whitney,Graciela Chailloux Laffita
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048574

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Subjects or Citizens by Robert Whitney,Graciela Chailloux Laffita Pdf

Cuba is widely recognized as a major hub of the transatlantic Hispanic and African diasporas throughout the colonial period. Less well known is that during the first half of the twentieth century it was also the center of circum-Caribbean diasporas with over 200,000 immigrants arriving mainly from Jamaica and Haiti. The migration of British West Indians was a critical part of the economic and historical development of the island during the twentieth century as many of them went to work on sugar plantations. Using never-before-consulted oral histories and correspondence, Robert Whitney and Graciela Chailloux Laffita examine this British Caribbean diaspora and chronicle how the immigrants came to Cuba, the living and working conditions they experienced, and how they both contributed to and remained separate from Cuban culture, forging a unique identity that was not just proudly Cuban but also proudly Caribbean.

Author : Walter Simmons
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612113500

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Cuba by Walter Simmons Pdf

Cuba is a group of several islands. Long ago, one of the islands was called Treasure Island because it was a home base for many Caribbean pirates. Young readers will learn about life in modern CubaÑthe school system, the delicious food, and the vibrancy of Cuban culture.

Author : Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030463632

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Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War by Nicolás Prados Ortiz de Solórzano Pdf

This book argues that during the Cuban Revolution (1952–1958), Fidel Castro, his allies, and members of the Movimiento 26 de Julio tapped into a larger network of transnational revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the region’s dictatorships. With his research in multiple archives including those in Cuba, Prados offers a new, transnational perspective on conflicts over dictatorship and democracy, which shaped the Caribbean in the decades that followed World War II. The book traces the roots of the ‘Caribbean Legion’, a transnational network of anti-dictatorial revolutionaries, before detailing how Castro and many of his allies in exile exploited this web during the struggle against Fulgencio Batista. Contacts in this network provided the Cuban revolutionaries with crucial military, financial, and diplomatic support from the democratic governments of José Figueres in Costa Rica, and Rómulo Betancourt in Venezuela, entangling the Cuban revolutionaries in a larger regional struggle between democratic regimes and military dictatorships. This transnational involvement shaped the revolutionary regime of 1959 and had far-reaching repercussions for the larger geopolitical dynamics in the region, and for the Cold War as a whole.

Author : Rafael Romeu
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451870206

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Vacation Over by Rafael Romeu Pdf

An opening of Cuba to U.S. tourism would represent a seismic shift in the Caribbean's tourism industry. This study models the impact of such a potential opening by estimating a counterfactual that captures the current bilateral restriction on tourism between the two countries. After controlling for natural disasters, trade agreements, and other factors, the results show that a hypothetical liberalization of Cuba-U.S. tourism would increase long-term regional arrivals. Neighboring destinations would lose the implicit protection the current restriction affords them, and Cuba would gain market share, but this would be partially offset in the short-run by the redistribution of non-U.S. tourists currently in Cuba. The results also suggest that Caribbean countries have in general not lowered their dependency on U.S. tourists, leaving them vulnerable to this potential change.

Author : Mr.Sebastian Acevedo Mejia,Mr.Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne,Rafael Romeu
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475596755

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Revisiting the Potential Impact to the Rest of the Caribbean from Opening US-Cuba Tourism by Mr.Sebastian Acevedo Mejia,Mr.Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne,Rafael Romeu Pdf

The Cuban revolution and the subsequent US embargo on Cuba helped shape the tourism sector in the Caribbean, facilitating the birth and growth of alternative destinations. Therefore, the apprehension of the Caribbean tourism industry towards a change in US travel policy to Cuba is understandable, but likely unwarranted. The history of tourism in the region has shown that it is possible for all destinations to grow despite large changes in market shares. Our estimations show that liberalizing US-Cuba tourism could result in US arrivals to Cuba of between 3 and 5.6 million, most of it coming from new tourists to the region. We also identify the destinations most at risk of changes in US-Cuba relations.

Author : Alejandra Bronfman
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 184277767X

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On the Move by Alejandra Bronfman Pdf

The Caribbean stands out in the popular imagination as a 'place without history', a place which has somehow eluded modernity. Haiti is envisioned as being trapped in an endless cycle of violence and instability. This work argues that the Carribean is, and has always been, deeply engaged with the wider world.

Author : Ernest H. Preeg,Jonathan D. Levine
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008769130

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Cuba And The New Caribbean Economic Order by Ernest H. Preeg,Jonathan D. Levine Pdf

A study of Cuba and the new Caribbean economic order.

Author : Dr. Joshua David Stone
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469713700

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Shadow over the Caribbean by Dr. Joshua David Stone Pdf

This book continues with the adventures of Briggs Chester as his employer and friend, Dan Mallory, again hand him a complex and dangerous assignment. As Briggs is vacationing on Key Biscayne, a small and wealthy enclave just miles from downtown Miami, Dan arranges a meeting in Miami to discuss a special assignment. At the same time, on the Caribbean Island of Aruba, a Cuban Intelligence officer, Major Ramon Garcia, is approaching a beautiful agent of Cuba, Monique Von Steuban, to undertake a sensitive operation for the Cuban Intelligence Service. This operation, initiated at the direct order of Fidel Castro, will involve money, love, and cocaine. The Miami-Cuban National Federation, in Miami, has been aware that the Cuban Government had been stockpiling massive quantities of cocaine in Cuba which was being held as a reserve much like other Nations stockpiled gold. Their intent is to use Briggs Chester to convince the Cuban Government that he is a drug dealer with one hundred millions dollars available to purchase cocaine. The Cuban government, in dire need of hard currency will put together a plan to sell Chester the cocaine for his money. Fidel will take direct charge of the operation which will take place on a island in the Bahama chain. A fast moving story that culminates in the middle of a hurricane on the small Caribbean Island of Great Inagua.