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Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba.
Cuban-Americans are beginning to understand their long-standing roots and traditions in the United States that reach back over a century prior to 1959. This is the first book-length confirmation of those beginnings, and its places the Cuban hero and revolutionary thinker José Martí within the political and socioeconomic realities of the Cuban communities in the United States of that era. By clarifying Martí’s relationship with those communities, Gerald E. Poyo provides a detailed portrait of the exile centers and their role in the growth and consolidation of nineteenth-century Cuban nationalism. Poyo differentiates between the development of nationalist sentiment among liberal elites and popular groups and reveals how these distinct strains influenced the thought and conduct of Martí and the successful Cuban revolution of the 1890s.
When Cuba threw off the yoke of Spanish rule at the end of the nineteenth century, it did so with the help of another foreign power, the United States. Thereafter, the United States became involved in Cuban affairs, intervening twice militarily (1898-1902 and 1906-1909). What was the effect of U.S. intervention? Conventional wisdom indicates that U.S. intervention hindered the rise of militarism in Cuba in the early years of statehood. This pathfinding study, however, takes just the opposite view. Jose M. Hernández argues that while U.S. influence may have checked the worst excesses of the Independence-war veterans who assumed control of Cuba's government, it did not completely deter them f...
A Brief History of the Caribbean is an overview of the historical events that have taken place and shaped the islands of the Caribbean Sea.
This work is a completely new Historical Dictionary for Cuba (the first since 1988). It gives a comprehensive and detailed coverage and analysis of all of the key elements, factors, biographies, narratives, and treaties in Cuban history from the 1400s to the present day, with an emphasis on the decades after 1959. Historical Dictionary of Cuba, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Cuba.
"Terminen la inconclusa invasion de Bahia de Cochinos"--Cover.
El Genocastricidio es una obra que denuncia ante todo al mundo lo crmenes, horrores y las perennes violaciones de los derechos humanos a los que el pueblo cubano est sometido permanentemente desde hace ms de cinco dcadas por la dinstica dictadura castrista castrense de la Habana. Cada captulo narra detalladamente, perodos y etapas diferentes de las ms de cinco dcadas de ocupacin castrista castrense del territorio nacional. Comenzando por el primer captulo. En este se muestran las etapas de la Cuba sin los Castro. En pequeo pas de alrededor de cinco millones de habitantes en ese entonces que pese a la inestabilidad poltica que exista por encontrarse gobernada por la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, menospreciando los problemas del tambaleante gobierno dictatorial, ste trataba de salir adelante, desarrollarse y crecer econmicamente y lo estaba consiguiendo pese a la incertidumbre en que se viva. El 1ro de Enero del 2010, la dictadura castrista-castrense fascista de la Habana cumpli cincuenta y un aos en el poder, por las causas que fueren, durante ese periodo de tiempo el mayor logro que ha tenido su gobierno genocastricida de la Habana es haber