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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Cuba	Mason, Paul	"Discusses Cuba, its history, conflicts, and the reasons why it is currently in the news"--Provided by publisher.	OL15531096W
Cuban sugar industry	Jonathan Curry-Machado	"In 1844, a number of migrant engineers were arrested in Cuba accused of sedition. Such engineering migrants contributed to Cuba becoming the world's foremost sugar producer, and this book explores t…	OL16011050W
Castro's secrets	Brian Latell	"In this riveting Cold War history, highly acclaimed author Brian Latell offers us a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro. Latell draws his narrative on personal interviews with high level defecto…	OL16215962W
Cuba	Noah Berlatsky	"Opposing Viewpoints: Cuba: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respecte…	OL17888456W
The Cuban Missile Crisis	Gary Jeffrey,Terry Riley	Separated by only about 100 miles (160 km) of water, the United States felt threatened by Soviet backed Cuba in the 1960s. It was like having the Soviet Union in their back yard. This book describes …	OL18212178W
The terror courts	Jess Bravin	Offers the first inside account of America's continuing legal experiment at Guantanamo Bay--a permanent, offshore justice system designed to assure convictions by denying constitutional rights. Incl…	OL19668998W
Che, my brother	Juan Martin Guevara	"On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages …	OL19710692W
The golden leaf	Charlotte Cosner	"Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first…	OL20010554W
Rough Riders	Mark Lee Gardner	Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley to recruit a volunteer army to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From this army em…	OL20027345W
Where the Flame Trees Bloom	Alma Flor Ada	Includes eleven stories about the relatives and friends that were part of the author's childhood in Cuba.	OL2586253W
Explore Cuba	Peggy Snow	32 pages : 24 cm	OL28676202W
Walker Evans	Walker Evans,Jeff L. Rosenheim,Douglas Eklund,Mia Fineman,Maria Morris Hambourg	"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictat…	OL35160W
Fidel Castro and the quest for a revolutionary culture in Cuba	Julie Marie Bunck	"An excellent study of political culture, emphasizing cultural and normative resistance to revolutionary values, norms, and goals. Challenges much of the scholarship that maintained that revolution p…	OL3916928W
Cuba	Richard Gott,Juan María López de Sa y Madariaga	"This new look at the history of Cuba illuminates the island’s entire revolutionary past as well as the most recent decades of the Castro regime Events in Fidel Castro’s island nation often co…	OL5145382W
Cuba	Jen Green	A basic overview of the history, geography, climate, and culture of Cuba.	OL544879W
Revolutionary Cuba	Terence Cannon	A history of the Cuban Revolution based on the writings and perspectives of its leaders and on the author's travel and research in Cuba.	OL6679454W
The least worst place	Karen J. Greenberg	In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance notice, the military's prepa…	OL8326126W
Havana	Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo	"Havana, the legendary capital of Cuba, bears the traces of every stage of the island's rich history, from its indigenous traditions to the introduction of European culture in the late fifteenth cent…	OL8942346W