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  • Tobacco on the Periphery

    A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860-1958

    by Jean Stubbs ...
    This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was transformed into an ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Tobacco Counterpoints

    Cuba and the Global Habano

    by Jean Stubbs ...
    Jean Stubbs has published widely on Cuba, with a specialist interest in tobacco, class, race, gender nation and migration. In 1985 she established her place as a pre-eminent historian of Cuban tobacco with the publication of Tobacco on the Periphery (a new expanded edition of which was published by Amaurea Press in 2023). Her foundational work on Cuban tobacco, and especially the Havana cigar, led ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Afro-Cuban Voices

    On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba

    Series series Contemporary Cuba
    Based on the vivid firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba, this book of interviews looks at ways that race affects daily life on the island.While celebrating their racial and national identity, the collected voices express an urgent need to end the silences and distortions of history in both pre- and postrevolutionary Cuba. The 14 people interviewed—of different generations ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780–1960

    Trade, Knowledge, and Labour

    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known tobacco regions of the world to interrogate tobacco’s ‘second globalisation’, a concept little employed by historians thus far, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Cuban Counterpoints

    The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz

    Series series Bildner Western Hemisphere Studies
    While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America more generally has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist who made lasting contributions to a staggering array of fields. This book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Puerto Rico in the American Century

    A History since 1898

    Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual and daily conundrum: they consider themselves a distinct ... Read more

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    by Michael Reid ...
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  • Spain

    The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country

    An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond“Comprehensive and engaging.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial TimesSpain’s transition to democracy after Franco’s long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe ... Read more

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    Processes of Change

    Since Evo Morales was elected president in 2006 as leader of the MAS, the first social movement to achieve political power in Latin America, Bolivia has seen radical changes and continues to generate huge interest worldwide. In this revealing new book, Crabtree and Chaplin show how ordinary people have responded to the processes of change that have taken place in the country over the last few ... Read more

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    Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor

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