Cuban Studies 33

Cuban Studies 33

Author: Lisandro Perez

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0822970716

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Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.


Cuban Studies 26

Cuban Studies 26

Author: Jorge I. Dominguez

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 1996-12-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780822970446

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Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.


Cuban Studies

Cuban Studies

Author: Lisandro Perez

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780822941934

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Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.


Cuban Studies 35

Cuban Studies 35

Author: Lisandro Prez

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0822970910

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Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.


Sugar & Railroads

Sugar & Railroads

Author: Oscar Zanetti Lecuona

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9780807846926

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Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport. This text presents a history of Cuban railroads from their introduction in the 19th century, through to the 1959 revolution, focusing particular attention on its interconnection with Cuba's predominant agricultural industry - sugar.


Cuban Studies 38

Cuban Studies 38

Author: Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2008-01-27

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0822971127

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Cuban Studies 38 examines topics that include: liberalism emanating from Havana in the early 1800s; Jose Martí's theory of psychocoloniality; the relationship between sugar planters, insurgents, and the Spanish military during the revolution; new aesthetics in Cuban cinema, the “recovery” of poet José Angel Buesa, and the meaning of Elián Gonzales in the context of life in Miami.


Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity

Education, Citizenship, and Cuban Identity

Author: Rosi Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1137583061

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This book explores how Cuba’s famously successful and inclusive education system has formed young Cubans’ political, social, and moral identities in a country transfigured by new inequalities and moral compromises made in the name of survival. The author examines this educational experience from the perspective of those who grew up in the years of economic crisis following the fall of the Soviet Union, charting their ideals, their frustrations and their struggle to reconcile revolutionary rhetoric with twenty-first century reality.


Cuban Studies 39

Cuban Studies 39

Author: Louis A. Perez, Jr.

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0822971208

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Cuban Studies 39 includes essays on: the recent transformation of the Cuban film animation industry; the influence of the liberal agenda of Justo Rufino Barrios on Jose Mart; a profile of the music of the Special Period and its social commentary; an in-depth examination of the contents, important themes, and enormous research potential of the Miscelnea de Expedientes collection at the Cuban National Archive; and a realistic assessment on the political future of Cuba.


Debating Cuban Exceptionalism

Debating Cuban Exceptionalism

Author: L. Whitehead

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1137123532

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This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces.


Havana

Havana

Author: Joseph L. Scarpaci

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780807853696

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Newly revised and redesigned, this book assesses nearly 500 years of urban development and planning in Havana, paying particular attention to the city's rich blend of Spanish-Cuban-Latin American-North American architecture and design.