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Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and leadership of Dictator Fidel Castro focusing on the revolution, the takeover, and how citizens lived under his rule. Also examines Cuba's economy, relationships with other nations, and political prisoners.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of President Eisenhower's disastrous attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. He deftly examines the train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs.
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University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships nurtured by Afro-Cubans and black Americans helped to shape the political strategies of both groups as they attempted to overcome a shared history...
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