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  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    A leading scholar sheds light on the experiences of ordinary Cubans in the unseating of the dictator Fulgencio BatistaIn this important and timely volume, one of today’s foremost experts on Cuban history and politics fills a significant gap in the literature, illuminating how Cuba’s electoral democracy underwent a tumultuous transformation into a military dictatorship. Lillian Guerra draws on her ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961–1981

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Pitt Latin American Series
    Authorities in postrevolutionary Cuba worked to establish a binary society in which citizens were either patriots or traitors. This all-or-nothing approach reflected in the familiar slogan “patria o muerte” (fatherland or death) has recently been challenged in protests that have adopted the theme song “patria y vida” (fatherland and life), a collaboration by exiles that, predictably, has been ... Read more

    $84.79 CAD

  • The Myth of José Martí

    Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Focusing on a period of history rocked by four armed movements, Lillian Guerra traces the origins of Cubans' struggles to determine the meaning of their identity and the character of the state, from Cuba’s last war of independence in 1895 to the consolidation of U.S. neocolonial hegemony in 1921. Guerra argues that political violence and competing interpretations of the “social unity” proposed by ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    by Clive Foss ...
    Fidel Castro was a dynamic and charismatic leader, who led Cuba through success and failures from 1959. Son of a rich landowner, he became a radical revolutionary who attempted to overthrow the government in 1956 with a tiny band of followers. Using propaganda and subversion as much as sudden attacks from his mountain hideout, he gained victory in 1959. He liberated his country from one dictator ... Read more

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  • Companero

    The Life and Death of Che Guevara

    by Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on ... Read more

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  • Cuba

    A Brief History

    by Sergio Guerra Vilaboy, Oscar Loyola Vega ...
    A concise, readable and thoroughly revised overview of Cuba written by Cubans for anyone interested in quickly understanding the island country’s turbulent history.Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba’s struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the period after Fidel Castro’s decision to step down from office, to ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Che Guevara

    by Andrew Sinclair ...
    A concise biography of one of the most iconic revolutionaries of all time. ... Read more

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  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Short History, 1910-1920

    by Stuart Easterling ...
    "An excellent account and analysis of the Mexican Revolution, its background, its course, and its legacy . . . an important contribution [and] a must read!" (Samuel Farber, author of Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959).The most significant event in modern Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 remains a subject of debate and controversy. Why did it happen? What makes it distinctive? Was ... Read more

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  • Mexico: Biography of Power

    A History of Modern Mexico, 1810–1996

    by Enrique Krauze ...
    Translated by Hank Heifetz ...
    The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Mother Church and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes biography during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests in 1810 to ... Read more

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  • Salazar

    The Dictator Who Refused to Die

    by Tom Gallagher ...
    Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and oppressive figure who kept Portugal backward, while others praise his honesty, patriotism and dedication to duty. Contemporary radicals are wary of his unabashed elitism and skepticism about social ... Read more

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  • Fidel Castro

    In His Own Words

    by Alex Moore ...
    FIDEL CASTROAugust 13, 1926 November 26, 2016.A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”--Fidel CastroFrom revolutionary and symbol of strength to Cold War adversary, Fidel Castro was one of the world’s most controversial leaders, and perhaps its most enduring. As Cuba’s towering and charismatic president for nearly fifty years, Castro’s influential leadership captivated allies ... Read more

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