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Coinciding with the 230 year anniversary of the establishing of the first Baptist church in Jamaica by the Ethiopian Baptist society and their brutal demise almost 150 years ago, Slavery's Heroes documents its pioneers; the men and women who, led by George Liele, advocated for a nation from enslavement to emancipation and beyond. This work offers insight into a people, a faith and a movement which demonstrated boldness, bravery and self-sacrifice.

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents - old communist ladies, their skeptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors - go about their daily lives.

In a music world that was rougher than rough, where men took monikers of royalty and machismo like Duke and King and Lord; where boastful ringleaders fired guns into the air after descending a throne carried by their legions of followers, bandoliers crisscrossing their chests, ermine on their shoulders; where violent gangs stormed dances to “mash up,” breaking sound system equipment and smashing bottles of beer on brick walls, how was a little girl with a sweet song in her soul to have a chance? Some Jamaican women found a way. They endured harassment and received little or no pay to ...

A Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller China’s Belt and Road initiative is on the way. Premier Xi’s agenda? For China to have unrestricted access to the rest of the world. At the focus is America’s last fortress, Puerto Rico, which sits primely at the southern entrance of the Caribbean from the Atlantic Ocean. The only way that China can exercise influence in Puerto Rico—and move freely around the globe—is if Puerto Rico becomes an independent nation. Puerto Rico’s political process is in shambles and the island is now slipping toward independence. Author Alexander ...

Dos manuscritos completos en 1 libro: Historia del Caribe y La edad de oro de la piratería.

La simbiosis étnica que tuvo lugar en Cuba desde la colonización española cuando los españoles se mezclaron con los nativos de la isla y más tarde, con esclavos negros traídos de África, dio lugar a un nuevo individuo, el criollo. Este fue el nombre de un nuevo ser humano, nativo de esta tierra que surgió como resultado de un proceso de transculturación cuando la raza nativa cubana ya se extinguióCo. Por eso, el pueblo cubano es tan genuino; su idiosincrasia se arraigó en sí misma desde el nacimiento de sus genes. Los cubanos son personas emprendedoras, optimistas, hospitalarias...

The history of Sephardi Pirates is intricately woven into the fabric of the Caribbean's maritime history, particularly during the age of piracy. In the Caribbean, Sephardi Jews played a vital role in the burgeoning trade networks that characterized the region during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Este libro es la recopilación de los lugares mas visitados por los turistas que van a la Habana Cuba; siendo una guía sencilla que nos permite conocer la pintoresca cultura cubana, lugares que por su historia o por la simple tradición, nos invita a recorrer, por ser esta, una de las Isla con mayor riqueza cultural y atractivos turísticos del Caribe.

Esta es una historia mínima de un fenómeno complejo y cambiante, en un periodo de dos décadas, llamado Revolución cubana. Mínima historia, en el sentido que dio a estos términos el historiador mexicano Daniel Cosío Villegas, allá por los...

Displaced from his oppressive yard, Johnny finds no work for a trombonist in the recording studios of Kingston. A life of crime as a rude boy is an easy way out, but will Johnny join his friends, or will he confront his past to realize his true potential? Set in Kingston, Jamaica, 1966, Johnny Too Bad is an historical fiction set in a record-heat summer when ska transitioned to rocksteady and politics defined the country’s identity. Go inside the musicians’ studios, the Rasta camps, the streets and the tenement yards to witness first-hand life during a time of both creation and ...

Gregory Weeks's Embracing Autonomy departs from other general treatments of Latin American-US relations not by putting US policy aside but by bringing in the Latin American and global contexts more closely and thus avoiding the incomplete picture provided by a narrow focus solely on the policies of the United States. The core of autonomy for Latin America from the United States is seen in new, deeper, and more numerous relationships that do not include the United States.

From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War tells the story of several communities as well as countries such as Mexico and Cuba, to uncover the way that wars within the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico facilitated American and southern attempts to conquer Latin American nations. In the push for westward expansion that preceded the Civil War, white southerners along with other Americans engaged in violent conquest in Latin America and the American West. 

Los descendientes de las naciones Maya, Nahuath y Lencas en Melbourne, Australia, es el resultado de un estudio realizado con la comunidad salvadorena de Melbourne, como requerimiento de para el Titulo de Master of Social Sciences: Especialidad International Community Development. La tesis fue presentada y el autor obtuve su titulo. Han pasado 22 anos desde que se realizo este estudio y ahora hago una resena comparativa de los anos que lso descendientes de las naciones maya, Nahuath y Lencas han vivido y si las causas por las que llegaron a Melbourne todavia existen y que ha pasado con su ...

From the award-winning author of Waiting on Zapote Street, winner of the Latino Books Into Movies award. In this sweeping epic inspired by true events, readers are transported to 1955 Camagüey, deep in the heartland of Cuba. The tranquil town of Arroyo Blanco—named for the life-giving creeks that flow through it—stands on the brink of irreversible change. As the seeds of Castro’s revolution begin to take root, the traditions and quiet rhythms of this close-knit community are threatened by a gathering storm of political and social upheaval. At the center of it all is Madeline, a ...

The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were determined to make their way in a world that vastly and differentially circumscribed their life choices.

On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming.

Tras los embates producidos por la heroica Revolución Francesa en el siglo XVII, en la Isla caribeña de la Española, el territorio que abarca el actual estado de Haití, sufrió profundos cambios a causa de la explotación europea y los deseos de libertad del pueblo haitiano.

"La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos viven en ciudades, pero no son ciudades como las que uno imagina cuando piensa en Barcelona o en París. Para saber cómo son -cómo es Latinoamérica- decidí volver a hacer eso que siempre me ha gustado hacer: ir, mirar, escuchar, pensar, contarlo."—Martín Caparrós.

The situation in Cuba is a disaster. The only income is two billion received from sending their supposed doctors to communist countries in Latin America. Many of those doctors are spies. Another billion comes from exiles in Miami. That must stop. The total GNP of Cuba is four billion, which cannot remotely support the population of Cuba. They don't have food or medicine and demonstrate every night against the dictatorship

Fidel Castro is probably the most famous person in Cuba. His life was devoted to what he perceived to be a righteous cause for equality and freedom from erroneous ideologies. He led people in the revolution, made a difference in the Cold War in decisions that concerned communism, Marxism, and other economic structures, and he finally became the president of Cuba, until he passed away not too long ago. Whether you like him or not, it’s definitely interesting to learn more about what made Fidel Castro so influential, and why he remained the president of his home country for so long.