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Caribbean & West Indian eBooks

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  • Selected Writings

    Translated by Esther Allen ...
    by José Martí ...
    José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning his living as a foreign correspondent. Throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, Martí's were the eyes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • In This World of Ultraviolet Light

    Stories

    by Raul Palma ...
    "These are new Cubans. Twenty-first-century Marielitos. Balseros, as the bartender had referred to them. I know, because my mom tells me that these are the kinds of Cubans I need to stay away from."In eight captivating stories, In This World of Ultraviolet Light—winner of the 2021 Don Belton Prize—navigates tensions between Cubans, Cuban Americans, and the larger Latinx community. Though these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Small Place

    A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • No God But Gain

    The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Making of the United States

    From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the slave trade. The US constitution set a 20-year time limit on US participation in the trade, and on January 1, 1808, it was abolished. And yet, despite the spread of abolitionism on both sides of the Atlantic, despite numerous laws and treaties passed to curb the slave ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

    by Fidel Castro ...
    Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything in between and since. These twenty-one letters (nine to Conte Aguero, six to his late sister ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cubano Be, Cubano Bop

    One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba

    Translated by Daniel Whitesell ...
    Based on unprecedented research in Cuba, the direct testimony of scores of Cuban musicians, and the author's unique experience as a prominent jazz musician, Cubano Be, Cubano Bop is destined to take its place among the classics of jazz history. The work pays tribute not only to a distinguished lineage of Cuban jazz musicians and composers, but also to the rich musical exchanges between Cuban and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Guerrilla Warfare

    Guerrilla Warfare is an epoch-making book by Che Guevara aimed to inspire thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries worldwide. Guevara believed that in the world of totalitarian regimes, where political opposition and legal civil struggle are impossible to conduct, guerilla warfare is the best method to resist the government. Yet, commonly guerilla movements lack organization, clear ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guantánamo

    An American History

    An on-the-ground history of American empireSay the word "Guantánamo" and orange jumpsuits, chain-link fences, torture, and indefinite detention come to mind. To critics the world over, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is a striking symbol of American hypocrisy. But the prison isn't the whole story. For more than two centuries, Guantánamo has been at the center of American imperial ambition, first as an ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • The Revolution Is for the Children

    The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962

    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Since 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government has proudly proclaimed that "the revolution is for the children." Many Cuban Americans reject this claim, asserting that they chose exile in the United States to protect their children from the evils of "Castro-communism." Anita Casavantes Bradford's analysis of the pivotal years between the Revolution's triumph and the 1962 Missile Crisis uncovers ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Notes of a War Correspondent

    According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent writer in her day, made his reputation as a newspaper reporter in May to June 1889 reporting on the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana

    Confessions of a Cuban Boy

    by Carlos Eire ...
    “Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child’s unforgettable experience.Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The History of Cuba in 50 Events

    History by Country Timeline, #3

    by Henry Freeman ...
    Series Book 3 - History by Country Timeline
    ☆ Cuban History in 50 Events ☆Cuba is a nation with a long, rich history. The study of Cuban history is also the study of the development of the New World by Europe, and the first steps taken by New World countries to establish independent governments. Cuba played a significant role in the growth of the New World, and throughout its history has been a part of major world events that have taken ... Read more

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  • Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

    An American History

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Julia E Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
    Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ay, Cuba!

    A Socio-Erotic Journey

    The NPR reporter offers an “engaging and enlightening” window into late-90s Cuba, “from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba” (Kirkus Reviews).For NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, reporting from Cuba on the eve of Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit was an opportunity to understand the realities of life in a country that has long been the subject of stereotypes and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba

    The Biography of a Cause

    by Tom Gjelten ...
    In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame to the island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardi descendants participated ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • This Is Cuba

    An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow

    by David Ariosto ...
    **USA Today "New and Noteworthy" • One of The Washington Post's "10 Books to Read—and Gift—in December""Fascinating." —ForbesFidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view.**This is Cuba is a true story that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fidel Castro: My Life

    A Spoken Autobiography

    The intimate and highly revealing life story of the world’s longest-serving, most charismatic, and controversial head of state in modern times.Fidel Castro was a dictatorial pariah to some and a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts were made to get Castro to tell his own ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • La edad de oro

    Series Book 230 - Historia
    Originalmente concebido como una revista, La edad de oro es el libro infantil por excelencia de la literatura de Cuba del siglo XIX. José Martí expone aquí su proyecto latinoamericanista. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Autobiografía de un esclavo

    Series Book 219 - Historia
    Este es un sencillo pero elocuente relato del esclavismo en las colonias españolas del Nuevo Mundo, es el primer testimonio en lengua española de un esclavo, y un documento de un inmenso valor histórico y humano. Manzano inició su redacción en 1835, alentado por Domingo del Monte, escritor empeñado en abolir el esclavismo, quien un año más tarde organizaría una colecta para comprar la libertad de ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Sugar King of Havana

    The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon

    "Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesKnown in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and courted movie stars such as Joan Fontaine and Bette Davis. Only when he declined Che Guevara's personal offer to become ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Slavery

    A New Global History

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to the present in the form of contemporary crimes such as trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cuban Revelations

    Behind the Scenes in Havana

    by Marc Frank ...
    Series series Contemporary Cuba
    In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet Bloc, the great depression of the 1990s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Puerto Rico

    What Everyone Needs to Know?

    by Jorge Duany ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
    Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much of its recent history. Though they are U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans do not have their own voting representatives in ... Read more

    $10.99 USD