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  • Canada–Cuba Ties

    The Pursuit of Normal Diplomacy

    by Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    Through interviews conducted with diplomats of both Canada and Cuba, this book analyzes the evolution of bilateral relations between the countries with a focus on the last thirty years.The relationship that Canada has with Cuba is unique. Despite historically close ties with the United States, which still maintains the “Trading with the Enemy Act” towards Cuba, Canada has consistently maintained ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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  • The Cuban Tourism Industry

    Evolution, Challenges, and Prospects

    by Dr. or Prof Paolo Spadoni, José Luis Perelló Cabrera ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    This book by Paolo Spadoni and José Luis Perelló Cabrera examines the history of tourism in Cuba and the expansion and struggles of international tourism in Cuba in the post-Cold War era.The Cuban Tourism Industry: Evolution, Challenges, and Prospects begins with a historical review of the development of tourism as an important industry in pre-1959 Cuba and the subsequent decline in the first ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Contemporary Cuba

    The Post-Castro Era

    Edited by Hope Bastian, Philip Brenner, Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk, William M. LeoGrande ...
    This completely revised and updated edition of Contemporary Cuba focuses on Cuba since Raúl Castro stepped down as president in 2018. The book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of contemporary Cuban politics, economy, international relations, and society. All but two of the twenty-seven articles were written expressly for this volume, in a style accessible for a broad audience. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Cuba's Forgotten Decade

    How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution

    by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield, Mervyn J. Bain, Guy Baron, H. Michael Erisman, Robert Huish, Anne Luke, Hope Bastian, Raquel Ribeiro0, Isaac Saney1, Rosi Smith2, Antoni Kapcia3, Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk4, Par Kumaraswami5, Dr Isabel Story6 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists that examines the major changes that took place across the decade and their role in determining the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Cuba Interviews

    Conversations on Foreign Investment and Economic Development

    by T. K. Hernández, Mark A. Entwistle, Dr. Juan Triana Cordovi, Élise C. Hartill ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is a collection of meticulously gathered interviews with government officials, ambassadors, and executives involved in foreign investment and economic development in Cuba. The interviews, many for the first time with a foreign journalist, are valuable from a historical perspective and as a story of development. It offers an “open window” on Cuba into a crucial segment of the country’s ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Cuban International Relations at 60

    Reflections on Global Connections

    by Mervyn J. Bain, Chris Walker, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, H. Michael Erisman, Liliana Fernández Mollinedo, Adrian Hearn, Rafael Hernández, Peter Kornbluh, Robert L. Muse0, Isaac Saney1, Paolo Spadoni2, Josefina Vidal3, Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk4, William LeoGrande5 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    Cuban International Relations at 60 brings together the perspectives of leading experts and the personal accounts of two ambassadors to examine Cuba’s global engagement and foreign policy since January 1959 by focusing on the island’s key international relationships and issues. Thisbook’s first section focuseson Havana’s complex relationship with Washington and its second section concentrates on ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Cuba at the Crossroads

    Edited by Philip Brenner, Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk, William M. LeoGrande ...
    Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new commercial relations in an international system dominated by market economies. The resulting economic reforms have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Cuban Foreign Policy

    Transformation under Raúl Castro

    Edited by H. Michael Erisman, Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk ...
    This volume illustrates the sweeping changes in Cuban foreign policy under Raúl Castro. Leading scholars from around the world show how the significant shift in foreign policy direction that started in 1990 after the implosion of the Soviet Union has continued, in many ways taking totally unexpected paths—as is shown by the move toward the normalization of relations with Washington. Providing a ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)

    The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland

    Edited by John M. Kirk, Stewart Sanderson, J.D.A. Widdowson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
    The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both in its contemporary distribution and in its historical evolution.The essays in this volume, by ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Open for Business

    Building the New Cuban Economy

    by Richard Feinberg ...
    90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Now open to the world, how will this nascent economy develop?Open for Business: The Cuban Economy after Castro, Richard Feinberg’s new book, examines the Cuban economy from its long held and outdated economic model ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889

    by Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S. Klein ...
    This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have defined modern Brazilian society and economy. In this period Brazil moved from being a mostly rural ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Argentina in the Twentieth Century

    by Roberto Cortés Conde ...
    Series Book 92 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    In this book, Roberto Cortés Conde describes and explains the decline of the Argentine economy in the twentieth century, its evolution, and its consequences. At the beginning of the century, the economy grew at a sustained rate, a modern transport system united the country, a massive influx of immigrants populated the land, and education expanded, leading to a dramatic fall in illiteracy. However, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD