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The Nixon Administration and Cuba Continuity and Rupture

The Nixon Administration and Cuba: Continuity and Rupture

1st Edition

By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
January 09, 2023

This book presents a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy that was adopted toward Cuba by the Richard M. Nixon administration between January 20, 1969, and August 8, 1974. Based on governmental, as well as other, sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, this book examines the rupture where the policy ...

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias

1st Edition

By David T. Orique
January 09, 2023

The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas’s controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition. ...

Translating Cuba Literature, Music, Film, Politics

Translating Cuba: Literature, Music, Film, Politics

1st Edition

By Robert S. Lesman
January 09, 2023

Cuban culture has long been available to English speakers via translation. This study examines the complex ways in which English renderings of Cuban texts from various domains—poetry, science fiction, political and military writing, music, film—have represented, reshaped, or amended original texts....

Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

1st Edition

Edited By Ernesto Capello, Julia B. Rosenbaum
August 01, 2022

During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of ...

Education in Revolutionary Struggles Iván Illich, Paulo Freire, Ernesto Guevara and Latin American Thought

Education in Revolutionary Struggles: Iván Illich, Paulo Freire, Ernesto Guevara and Latin American Thought

1st Edition

By Andrés Donoso Romo
August 01, 2022

Education in Revolutionary Struggles introduces us to the fascinating world of Latin American educational thought in the third quarter of the 20th century. It discusses the contributions of three of the most distinguished intellectuals of the period – Iván Illich, Paulo Freire and Ernesto Guevara –...

Hearing Enslaved Voices African and Indian Slave Testimony in British and French America, 1700–1848

Hearing Enslaved Voices: African and Indian Slave Testimony in British and French America, 1700–1848

1st Edition

Edited By Sophie White, Trevor Burnard
August 01, 2022

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was ...

Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala

Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala

1st Edition

By Sarah N. Saffa
August 01, 2022

Kinship and Incestuous Crime in Colonial Guatemala examines social relations in colonial Guatemala through the lens of incest. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of incest trials from the Spanish secular courts, this study shows that incest codes were not homogenous nor ...

The Johnson Administration's Cuba Policy From

The Johnson Administration's Cuba Policy: From "Dirty War" to Passive Containment

1st Edition

By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
August 01, 2022

This book presents the reader with a detailed analysis of the U.S. policy toward Cuba that was designed and adopted by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Based in governmental and other sources from both the U.S. and Cuba, the book analyzes the changes in the U.S. policy and its political and ...

The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective

The Monroe Doctrine in a Contemporary Perspective

1st Edition

By Denneth M. Modeste
February 04, 2020

This book surveys the impact of the Monroe Doctrine on United States relations with Latin America, with a particular focus on the Caribbean Basin, since its proclamation in 1823. It explores the historical role of the Monroe Doctrine as the instrument to foreclose future European colonial ...

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929 El Mundo al Revés

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929: El Mundo al Revés

1st Edition

By Stephan Fender
December 05, 2019

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929 examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made their entry into labor culture through the cinema, the theater, and labor festivals as well as into ...

The Last Year of President Kennedy and the

The Last Year of President Kennedy and the "Multiple Path" Policy Toward Cuba

1st Edition

By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta
November 28, 2019

This book presents new aspects of the U.S. "multiple path" policy toward Cuba that was designed and adopted after the Missile Crisis (October 1962) until the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from a Cuban perspective. The policy was characterized by its contradictory profile,...

Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America

Transnational Perspectives on the Conquest and Colonization of Latin America

1st Edition

Edited By Jenny Mander, David Midgley, Christine Beaule
September 25, 2019

Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations, this volume presents a rich variety ...

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