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Traces economic development, social dynamics, and political processes in Cuba from the end of Spanish colonial rule to the 1959 revolution. Focusing especially on class structures, gender roles, race relations, and political change, the author describes the social and economic circumstances in which most Cubans lived before 1959, and he explores the complex and compelling relationship between North American capital investment and the formation and deformation of Cuba's national institutions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The title of Volume IV of the General History of the Caribbean, the Long Nineteenth Century, indicates its range, from the last years of the eighteenth to the first two decades of the twentieth. The volume begins during the hegemony of the European nations and the social and economic dominance of the slave masters. It ends with the hegemony of the United States of America and the economic dominance of American and European agricultural and mercantile corporations. The chapters provide thematic accounts of societies emerging from slavery at different times during the century and also of the circumstances that affected the extent to which these societies were autochthonous within their various...
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Este es un libro polémico, dirigido contra los calumniadores del Libertador Simón Bolívar. Es la obra póstuma del recientemente desaparecido historiador cubano Jorge Ibarra Cuesta. Con Simón Bolívar, entre Escila y Caribdis, su autor se propone vindicar al libertador de los ataques de cierta historiografía, esclareciendo la verdad histórica sobre dos aspectos controvertidos relacionados con la vida del fundador de Colombia: el arresto de Francisco de Miranda en 1812 y el Derecho de Guerra a Muerte proclamando al año siguiente.