Terry's Guide to Cuba
Author : Thomas Philip Terry
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Cuba
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Philip Terry
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Cuba
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Author : Thomas Philip Terry
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Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Mexico
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Author : Thomas Philip Terry
Publisher :
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Cuba
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Author : Thomas Philip Terry
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Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Japan
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Author : Louis A. Pérez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807858998
With this masterful work, Louis A. Pĩrez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of t
Author : Thomas Philip Terry
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Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Mexico
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Author : Louis A. Pérez
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0820340073
The Times Literary Supplement calls Louis A. Pérez Jr. "the foremost historian of Cuba writing in English." In this new edition of his acclaimed 1990 volume, he brings his expertise to bear on the history and direction of relations between Cuba and the United States. Of all the peoples in Latin America, the author argues, none have been more familiar to the United States than Cubans--who in turn have come to know their northern neighbors equally well. Focusing on what President McKinley called "the ties of singular intimacy" linking the destinies of the two societies, Pérez examines the points at which they have made contact--politically, culturally, economically--and explores the dilemmas that proximity to the United States has posed to Cubans in their quest for national identity. This edition has been updated to cover such developments of recent years as the renewed debate over American trade sanctions against Cuba, the Elián González controversy, and increased cultural exchanges between the two countries. Also included are a new preface and an updated bibliographical essay.
Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1469601419
With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.
Author : Fiona McAuslan
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1848367953
The Rough Guide to Cuba is the ultimate guide to the home of sun, salsa and rum From down town Trinidad to small-town street parties, the section introduces the best Cuba has to offer. This revised 6th edition contains ... The guide is full of informed descriptions and accurate listings of the best bars, restaurants and music venues to be seen at, from the lively city of Havana to the seaside resorts of Cayo Coco and Guardalavaca. This guide also takes a detailed look at the country's turbulent history,sport, music and wildlife, and comes complete with new maps and plans for every area. The Rough Guide to Cuba's is like having a local friend plan your trip!
Author : Dennis Merrill
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898635
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in Latin America in the twentieth century demonstrates that empire is a more textured, variable, and interactive system of inequality and resistance than commonly assumed. In his examination of interwar Mexico, early Cold War Cuba, and Puerto Rico during the Alliance for Progress, Merrill demonstrates how tourists and the international travel industry facilitated the expansion of U.S. consumer and cultural power in Latin America. He also shows the many ways in which local service workers, labor unions, business interests, and host governments vied to manage the Yankee invasion. While national leaders negotiated treaties and military occupations, visitors and hosts navigated interracial encounters in bars and brothels, confronted clashing notions of gender and sexuality at beachside resorts, and negotiated national identities. Highlighting the everyday realities of U.S. empire in ways often overlooked, Merrill's analysis provides historical context for understanding the contemporary debate over the costs and benefits of globalization.