The Cuba Archive

Author : Tria Giovan
Publisher : Damiani Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Photography
ISBN : 8862085451

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The Cuba Archive by Tria Giovan Pdf

Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. Over the next six years she took twelve month-long trips, traversing the island numerous times, and making over 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba's history, literature and politics, she photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, rural landscapes, signs and billboards, and, most of all, the people, creating a compelling body of work that captures the subtleties and layered complexities of day-to-day Cuba born from complete engagement and informed perspective. Cuba The Elusive Island published by Harry N. Abrams in 1996--a collector's item--first brought together 100 of these images, along with a selection of writings by some of Cuba's most important writers. Twenty years later, Giovan re-edited the images, while working to preserve the original 6 x 9 color negatives. Through this intensive re-examination, a new more complex view of the historical significance of this work has emerged. Images previously disregarded or missed now stand out as a record of elements that no longer exist and one of a Cuba poised on the brink of change. The 120 selected images featured in The Cuba Archive , many of which have never been shown, reveal Cuba at a pivotal point in its storied and fascinating history, and bear witness to an inimitable, resilient and complex country and people.

Author : Tria Giovan
Publisher : Damiani Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Photography
ISBN : 886208577X

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Tria Giovan: the Cuba Archive by Tria Giovan Pdf

Published in a limited edition of 15 copies, this elegant boxed volume comes with a signed and numbered print, titled Malecon-Gibara , Cuba. Tria Giovan first traveled to Cuba in 1990. She returned 12 times over the next 6 years, shooting over 25,000 images. Immersing herself in Cuba's history, literature and politics, Giovan photographed interiors of homes and businesses, city streets, landscapes and, most of all, the people, creating a compelling body of work that captured the subtleties and layered complexities of day-to-day life in Cuba. Twenty years after the publication of her first book of Cuban photographs, Cuba: The Elusive Island , Giovan has returned to these images, rediscovering in them a record of a Cuba that no longer exists. Tria Giovan: The Cuba Archive selects 120 of these images, many of which have never before been shown. Giovan reveals Cuba at a pivotal point in its fascinating history and bears witness to an inimitable, resilient and complex country and people.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
ISBN : UOM:39015089062759

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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alexander von Humboldt,John S. Thrasher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Black people
ISBN : UOM:39015010534629

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The Island of Cuba by Alexander von Humboldt,John S. Thrasher Pdf

Author : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UCD:31175007495594

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To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Tria Giovan,Silvana Paternostro
Publisher : Damiani Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Photography
ISBN : 886208630X

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Tria Giovan: the Cuba Archive (Collector's Edition) by Tria Giovan,Silvana Paternostro Pdf

Following the great success of the first edition of Tria Giovan's The Cuba Archive collector's edition, Damiani is publishing a second collector's edition that includes a new signed and numbered print by the photographer. This edition, limited to 15 copies, includes the print Beauty Salon in Vedado-Havana, Cuba, 1993. This vibrant picture describes a daily moment in a beauty salon in the residential neighborhood of Vedado that provides services on the back patio of a private home during the era of economic hardship known as "the Special Period" or Periodico Especial.

Author : William M. LeoGrande,Peter Kornbluh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626611

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Back Channel to Cuba by William M. LeoGrande,Peter Kornbluh Pdf

History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh here present a remarkably new and relevant account, describing how, despite the intense political clamor surrounding efforts to improve relations with Havana, negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. They reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, that provides the historical foundation for the dramatic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba ties.

Author : Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n
Publisher : Cold War International History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0804762015

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The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis by Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n Pdf

300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.

Author : Piero Gleijeses
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469609683

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Visions of Freedom by Piero Gleijeses Pdf

Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

Author : Jonathan M. Hansen
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476732480

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Young Castro by Jonathan M. Hansen Pdf

This intimate, revisionist portrait of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world, is “sure to become the standard on Castro’s early life” (Publishers Weekly). Until now, biographers have treated Castro’s life like prosecutors, scouring his past for evidence to convict a person they don’t like or don’t understand. Young Castro challenges us to put aside the caricature of a bearded, cigar-munching, anti-American hothead to discover how Castro became the dictator who acted as a thorn in the side of US presidents for nearly half a century. In this “gripping and edifying narrative…Hansen brings imposing research and notable erudition” (Booklist) to Castro’s early life, showing Castro getting his toughness from a father who survived Spain’s class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. We see a boy running around that plantation more comfortable playing with the children of his father’s laborers than his own classmates at elite boarding schools in Santiago de Cuba and Havana. We discover a young man who writes flowery love letters from prison and contemplates the meaning of life, a gregarious soul attentive to the needs of strangers but often indifferent to the needs of his own family. These pages show a liberal democrat who admires FDR’s New Deal policies and is skeptical of communism, but is also hostile to American imperialism. They show an audacious militant who stages a reckless attack on a military barracks but is canny about building an army of resisters. In short, Young Castro reveals a complex man. The first American historian in a generation to gain access to the Castro archives in Havana, Jonathan Hansen was able to secure cooperation from Castro’s family and closest confidants. He gained access to hundreds of never-before-seen letters and interviewed people he was the first to ask for their impressions of the man. The result is a nuanced and penetrating portrait of a man at once brilliant, arrogant, bold, vulnerable, and all too human: a man who, having grown up on an island that felt like a colonial cage, was compelled to lead his country to independence.

Author : Aviva Chomsky,Barry Carr,Alfredo Prieto,Pamela Maria Smorkaloff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478004561

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

Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. 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 : National Archives (U.S.),United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Archives
ISBN : OSU:32435070532635

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Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Provisional Government of Cuba (Record Group 199) by National Archives (U.S.),United States. National Archives and Records Service Pdf

Author : Anthony DePalma
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1586484427

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The Man Who Invented Fidel by Anthony DePalma Pdf

In 1957, Herbert L.Matthews of the New York Times, then considered one of the premiere foreign correspondents of his time, tracked down Fidel Castro in Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains and returned with what was considered the scoop of the century. His heroic portrayal of Castro, who was then believed dead, had a powerful effect on American perceptions of Cuba, both in and out of the government, and profoundly influenced the fall of the Batista regime. When Castro emerged as a Soviet-backed dictator, Matthews became a scapegoat; his paper turned on him, his career foundered, and he was accused of betraying his country. In this fascinating book, New York Times reporter DePalma investigates the Matthews case to reveal how it contains the story not just of one newspaperman but of an age, not just how Castro came to power but how America determines who its enemies are. He re-creates the atmosphere of revolutionary Cuba and Cold War America, and clarifies the facts of Castro's ascension and political evolution from the many myths that have sprung up around them. Through a dramatic, ironic, in ways tragic story, The Man Who Invented Fidel offers provocative insights into Cuban politics, the Cuban-American relationship, and the many difficult balancing acts of responsible journalism.

Author : Julia Sweig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674044197

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Inside the Cuban Revolution by Julia Sweig Pdf

Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Castro and Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only scholar inside or outside of Cuba allowed access to the complete collection in the Cuban Council of State's Office of Historic Affairs--she details the debates between Castro's mountain-based guerrilla movement and the urban revolutionaries in Havana, Santiago, and other cities.

Author : Luis Marino Pérez
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Carnegie institution of Washington
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019484380

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Guide to the Materials for American History in Cuban Archives by Luis Marino Pérez Pdf