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  • Historical Dictionary of Cuba

    by Antoni Kapcia ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of the Americas
    This work is a completely new Historical Dictionary for Cuba (the first since 1988). It gives a comprehensive and detailed coverage and analysis of all of the key elements, factors, biographies, narratives, and treaties in Cuban history from the 1400s to the present day, with an emphasis on the decades after 1959.Historical Dictionary of Cuba, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, ... Read more

    $320.99 CAD

  • Leadership in the Cuban Revolution

    The Unseen Story

    by Antoni Kapcia ...
    Most conventional readings of the Cuban Revolution have seemed mesmerised by the personality and role of Fidel Castro, often missing a deeper political understanding of the Revolution's underlying structures, bases of popular loyalty and ethos of participation.In this ground-breaking work, Antoni Kapcia focuses instead on a wider cast of characters. Along with the more obvious, albeit often ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Cuba in Revolution

    A History since the Fifties

    by Antoni Kapcia ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world’s attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. Antoni Kapcia provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959.Kapcia’s history takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analysing the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Short History of Revolutionary Cuba

    Revolution, Power, Authority and the State from 1959 to the Present Day

    by Antoni Kapcia ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba. From Hemingway's intoxicating Havana to Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club, outsiders have persistently been fascinated by Cuba for its music (jazz to rumba), its rich literature, its art and dance (danzón to mambo) and perhaps above all for its bold experiment of a socialist revolution in action. Antoni Kapcia shows how the thaw in relations ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Past and Present in Cuba

    Essays in memory of Alistair Hennessy

    Edited by Antoni Kapcia ...
    This collection of essays and research articles has been designed, by its breadth of expertise and discipline, to pay suitable homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. For that reason, it includes a judicious mixture of the old and the new, including several of the leading and internationally well-established ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Cuba's Forgotten Decade

    How the 1970s Shaped the Revolution

    by Emily J. Kirk, Anna Clayfield, Mervyn J. Bain, Guy Baron, H. Michael Erisman, Robert Huish, Anne Luke, Hope Bastian, Raquel Ribeiro0, Isaac Saney1, Rosi Smith2, Antoni Kapcia3, Dr. or Prof. John M. Kirk4, Par Kumaraswami5, Dr Isabel Story6 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies on Cuba
    The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratization, institutionalization, and adherence to Soviet orthodoxy. Consequently, scant research exists that examines the major changes that took place across the decade and their role in determining the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Foreign Policy Decision Making Under The Geisel Government

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    This thesis seeks to provide an explanation for the contents of three foreign policy decisions implemented under the government of General Ernesto Geisel (1974-1979). It does so by analyzing the decision-making process which led Brazil: 1) to abstain in the Meetings of Consultation of American Foreign Ministers for voting the lifting of sanctions against Cuba; 2) to restore diplomatic relations ... Read more

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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
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  • We Created Chávez

    A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

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