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  • Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century

    by Alejandro de la Fuente ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack. By 1610, however, under Spanish rule it had become one of the best-fortified port cities in the world and an Atlantic center of shipping, commerce, and shipbuilding. Using all available local Cuban sources, Alejandro de la Fuente provides the first examination of the transformation of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Design of Reinforced Concrete Silo Groups

    by Fernando A.N. Silva, Bernardo Horowitz, João M.P.Q. Delgado, António C. Azevedo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book offers a new calculation procedure of the structural behavior of grouped layout of silos, easy to use and with satisfactory responses.Groups of reinforced concrete silos are structures commonly used in the food industry, where it is usually necessary to separate the storage of different types and sources of grain.The grouped layout of silos has numerous benefits when compared with single ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Boys from Dolores

    Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile

    by Patrick Symmes ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement and leadership. Instead, they were swept into war, revolution, and exile by two of their own number, Fidel and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

    A Critical Assessment

    by Samuel Farber ...
    "Frequent insights, stimulating historical comparisons, and command of the data relating to Cuba's economic and social performance." — Foreign AffairsUncritically lauded by the left and impulsively denounced by the right, the Cuban Revolution is almost universally viewed one dimensionally. In this book, Samuel Farber, one of its most informed left-wing critics, provides a much-needed critical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ser Cubana

    by Xiomara Berland ...
    Este libro está lleno de refranes, recetas, historia, poemas y orgullo cubano. Leerlo para las memorias, las recetas de la abuela y para capturar un poco de lo que es ser un cubano. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Day Fidel Died

    Cuba in the Age of Raúl, Obama, and the Rolling Stones

    by Patrick Symmes ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Cuba has loomed large in American memory and history. Throughout the last half-century, the island and its larger-than-life revolutionary leader have been key players in the Cold War and mythologized by Americans and American politicians. In 2016, relations thawed, and the country opened its doors to American. The Rolling Stones played in Havana. President Obama arrived too in March. He was the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Ghetto Slam

    by Crystal Evans ...
    If you love Every Man Deserves a Good Jacket,then you are going to love Ghetto Slam. Real Jamaican story. Fun, laughter and life. ... Read more

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  • Chinese Cubans

    A Transnational History

    by Kathleen M. López ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous “coolie” trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Intimations of Modernity

    Civil Culture in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

    by Louis A. Pérez Jr. ...
    Louis A. Pérez Jr.’s new history of nineteenth-century Cuba chronicles in fascinating detail the emergence of an urban middle class that was imbued with new knowledge and moral systems. Fostering innovative skills and technologies, these Cubans became deeply implicated in an expanding market culture during the boom in sugar production and prior to independence. Contributing to the cultural history ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution

    by Sherry Johnson ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history, and Cuban and American colonial history, Sherry Johnson innovatively integrates the region’s ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Memoir of My Youth in Cuba

    A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898

    by Josep Conangla ...
    Translated by Dolores J. Walker ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    A historically significant memoir offering a firsthand perspective on life, identity, and cultural transformation in nineteenth-century Cuba.Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 is a translation of the memoir Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un soldado del ejército español en la guerra separatista (1895–1898) by Josep Conangla. The English ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Corporation

    An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld

    by T. J. English ...
    “A mob saga that has it all—brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems utterly unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read.” —Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The BorderA fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America’s top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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