Introduction To Cuba

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9785855289930

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Introduction to Cuba by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

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 : Cuba Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores,Minerva Roque,Arturo Bada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:186823306

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Introduction to Cuba by Cuba Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores,Minerva Roque,Arturo Bada Pdf

Author : Resistance Books
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 1876646063

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Cuba as Alternative by Resistance Books Pdf

Author : Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy,Oscar Loyola-Vega
Publisher : Ocean Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780987228345

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Cuba: A History by Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy,Oscar Loyola-Vega Pdf

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 Publishing Company
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617846793

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Cuba by Tamara L. Britton Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:877883107

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Introduction to Cuba by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Brenner,John M. Kirk,William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538136836

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Cuba at the Crossroads by Philip Brenner,John M. Kirk,William M. LeoGrande Pdf

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 : Aviva Chomsky,Pamela Maria Smorkaloff,Barry Carr
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822384915

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The Cuba Reader by Aviva Chomsky,Pamela Maria Smorkaloff,Barry Carr Pdf

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 : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199740819

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Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know by Julia E Sweig Pdf

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 : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018204402

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Cuba for Beginners by Rius Pdf

Presented in political cartoon style by the well-known Mexican cartoonist.

Author : Philip Brenner,Marguerite Rose Jiménez,John M. Kirk,William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742575059

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A Contemporary Cuba Reader by Philip Brenner,Marguerite Rose Jiménez,John M. Kirk,William M. LeoGrande Pdf

A second edition of this book is now available. This anthology brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in the post-Soviet era, which Cubans call the "Special Period." Ideally suited for students and general readers seeking to understand contemporary Cuba, the book includes a substantive introduction setting the historical context, as well as part introductions and a chronology.

Author : Robert Halstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511482206

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An Introduction to Cuba by Robert Halstead Pdf

Author : Richard Gott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300111142

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Cuba by Richard Gott Pdf

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 : Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197666302

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Revolutions: a Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone Pdf

"In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--

Author : Ada Ferrer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,5 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. --