Lopez's Expeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851
Author: Anderson Chenault Quisenberry
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
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The Free Flag of Cuba
Author: Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2002-10-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780807128343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the “Queen of the Confederacy,” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832–1899) was during her lifetime one of the most famous women in the South. Rumor was that in her youth she published a novel under a pseudonym. Recently discovered as The Free Flag of Cuba; or, The Martyrdom of Lopez: A Tale of the Liberating Expedition of 1851, her 1854 book is a romanticized account of the 1851 filibustering expedition to Cuba by Narciso López. With this new edition, Orville Vernon Burton and Georganne B. Burton resurrect Holcombe’s lost work and prove it to be a window on many pressing nineteenth-century issues. A not-so-subtle plea for U.S. support for Cuban independence from Spain, Holcombe’s novel vindicates López and his men—who were officially regarded as mercenaries—and declares them to be martyred heroes. The tale clearly reflects the values southern aristocratic women expected in men, even if preserving those values meant death and defeat—a harbinger of ardent support for the Confederacy by women like Lucy. With an illuminating introduction detailing the life of Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens and the historical context of her novel, this new edition of The Free Flag of Cuba is a welcome glimpse into the mind and value system of the southern belle who would become a southern icon.
Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920
Author: Tiffany A. Sippial
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1469608936
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Travels in the West
Author: David Turnbull
Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans
Published: 1840
Total Pages: 612
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Author: Richard Gott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780300111149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough examination of the history of the controversial island country looks at little-known aspects of its past, from its pre-Columbian origins to the fate of its native peoples, complete with up-to-date information on Cuba's place in a post-Soviet world.
Cuban Confederate Colonel
Author: Antonio Rafael De la Cova
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9781570034961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn doing so, de la Cova sheds new light on the connections between Southern and Cuban society, the workings of coastal defenses during the Civil War, and the vicissitudes of Reconstruction for a Cuban expatriate."--Jacket.
Revolucion!
Author: Lincoln Cushing
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780811835824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe poster was the popular art form in Cuba following the Cuban Revolution, when the government sponsored some 10,000 public posters on a fascinating range of cultural, social, and political themes. Revolucin!, produced with unprecedented access to Cuban national archives, assembles nearly 150 of these powerful but little—seen works of popular art. From the 1960s through the 1980s, the posters rallied the Cuban people to the huge task of building a new society, promoting massive sugar harvests and national literacy campaigns; opposing the U.S. war in Vietnam; celebrating films, music, dance, and baseball with a unique graphic wit and exuberant colorful style. With an introduction illuminating the rich social and artistic history of the posters, and rare biographical information on the artists themselves, this striking volume offers a window into the story of Cuba—and a truly revolutionary chapter in graphic design.
Cuba in 1851
Author: Alexander Jones
Publisher:
Published: 1851
Total Pages: 104
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Author: Tom Chaffin
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil now, the story of Narciso Lopez's daring invasions of Cuba has remained one of the great lost sagas of American history. Wildly famous during the mid-nineteenth century as the leader of a filibuster, a clandestine army, Lopez led the first armed challenge to Spain's long domination over Cuba. While U.S. historians have tended to view Lopez as an agent of pre-Civil War southern expansionism, Tom Chaffin reveals a broader, more complicated picture. Although many southerners did assist Lopez, the web of intrigue that sustained his conspiracy also included New York City, steamship magnates, penny press editors, Cuban industrialists, and nothern Democratic urban bosses. Drawn from archives in both the United States and Cuba and enlivened by first-person accounts and reports from federal "special agents" assigned to spy on Lopez, Fatal Glory holds appeal for both scholars and the general reader with an interest in Cuba, U.S. foreign policy, or the U.S. sectional crisis of the 1850s.
