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  • Rice in the Time of Sugar
    Louis A. Jr. Pérez / Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APérez Jr.
    How did Cuba’s long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island’s cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. In the dynamic between the t...
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    126,97 €

  • Rice in the Time of Sugar
    Louis A. Jr. Pérez / Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APérez Jr.
    How did Cuba’s long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island’s cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. In the dynamic between the t...
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    41,45 €

  • The Structure of Cuban History
    Louis A. Jr. Pérez / Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APérez Jr.
    In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. argues that the country’s memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as the outcome of Spain’s defeat in 1898 was heavily compromised by the U.S. milita...
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    50,79 €

  • Cuba in the American Imagination
    Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APérez Jr.
    For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such c...
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    63,49 €

  • Cuba in the American Imagination
    Louis A. Jr. Pérez / Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APerez / Louis APérez Jr.
    For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images — Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Pérez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such ...
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    50,84 €

  • On Becoming Cuban
    Louis A. Jr. Pérez / Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APérez Jr.
    With this masterful work, Louis A. Pérez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans’ identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolut...
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    64,21 €

  • To Die in Cuba
    Louis A. Jr. Pérez / Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APérez Jr.
    For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world — a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba’s historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social and cultural history of suicide in Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. explores the wa...
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    56,88 €

  • Winds of Change
    Louis A. Jr. Pérez / Louis A. Pérez Jr. / Louis APérez Jr.
    The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island’s history.Always vulnerable to hurricanes, Cuba was ravaged in 1842, 1844, and 1846 by three catastrophic storms, with staggering ...
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    54,74 €

  • Impressions of Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
    Joseph Judson Dimock / Louis AJrPerez / Louis APerez Jr
    Joseph J. Dimock’s descriptions of Cuba in his travel diary provide a remarkable firsthand view of a fascinating period in the island’s history. In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States was pursuing manifest destiny. The war with Mexico had resulted in a vast increase of national territory, and many north Americans wanted Cuba as the next acquisition. In addition to ann...
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    49,14 €