Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Cuba Cuba Ambrosio Fornet,Louis A.,Jr. Perez,E. Wright Ledbetter "With insightful essays - in English and Spanish - from Louis A. Perez Jr., America's preeminent Cuba scholar, and Ambrosio Fornet, renowned Cuban author and screenwriter, Cuba: Picturing Change intr… OL11636762W
Taking Haiti Taking Haiti Mary A. Renda "The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years - and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring t… OL221930W
Culture and the Cuban Revolution Culture and the Cuban Revolution Leonardo Padura Fuentes,John M. Kirk "This unusual collaboration between a Cuban novelist and a Canadian professor offers uncensored and frank interviews with prominent figures of contemporary Cuban cultural life, from a Grammy-winning … OL2368598W
An account of the antiquities of the Indians An account of the antiquities of the Indians Fray Ramon Pané Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” o… OL3669418W