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Cuba / Alan West-Duran, editor in chief.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Scribner world scholar series.
- Scribner world scholar series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuba.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 volumes (various pagings)) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2012.
- Summary:
- Presents the major forces that have shaped the country both historically and culturally, offering a close look at themes emblematic to the nation's history. Features articles on works of art and nonfiction, political documents, speeches, testimonies, flashpoint events and places of cultural significance.
- Contents:
- Volume 1. A-K. Afro-Cuban Spirituality in the Art of Manuel Mendive
- La Anunciación (Antonia Eiriz)
- The Aponte Rebellion: 1811-1812
- The Art of René Portocarrero
- Autobiography of a Slave (Juan Francisco Manzano)
- Azúcar y Población En Las Antillas (Ramiro Guerra)
- Baracoa
- Bayamo
- Bay of Pigs Invasion: 1961
- Car Culture
- Cecilia Valdés (Cirilo Villaverde)
- Che Guevara and the New Man
- Che Guevara, Social and Political Thought
- Cienfuegos
- Classical Composers: Alejandro García Caturla
- Classical Composers: Amadeo Roldán
- Classical Composers: Leo Brouwer
- Classical Composers: Tania León
- Cocina Cubana: Nitza Villapol
- The Color of Summer (Reinaldo Arenas)
- Constantino Arias: Havana's Pre-Revolution Photographer
- Constitution of 1940
- Cuban Adjustment Act
- Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (Fernando Ortiz)
- Cuban Embargo
- Cuban Missile Crisis: October 1962
- The Cuban Revolution of 1959
- Cuban Singers in the United States
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity. Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: The Various Ways of (not) Being Cuban.
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Art and Literature of the 19th Century
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Republican Period
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Costumbres in the Revolutionary Period
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Internet Blogging
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: The Internet Experience in Cuba
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Populism, Nationalism, and Cubaanía
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Quinceañeras
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Radical Catholicism and Social Justice
- Cuban Thought and Cultural Identity: Socialist Thought
- Cuentos Negros De Cuba (Lydia Cabrera)
- De Donde Son Los Cantantes (Severo Sarduy)
- Día de Reyes en la Habana (Víctor Patricio de Landaluze)
- Diálogo Agreement
- Diasporas. Diasporas: Introduction
- Diasporas: 19th Century
- Diasporas: 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s
- Diasporas: Afro-Cubans in the Diaspora
- Diasporas: Waves of Immigration Since 1959
- Diasporas: Cubans Abroad, Post-1959
- Diasporas: The Politics of Exile in the Early 1960s
- Diasporas: Immigrant Exile Politics
- Diasporas: Political Action Committees and Lobby Groups.
- Diasporas: Exiles in the Cuban Popular Imagination
- Dirty Havana Trilogy (Pedro Juan Gutiérrez)
- Dreaming in Cuban (Cristina García)
- Dreaming of an Island (María Magdalena Campos-Pons)
- Ecology and Environment. Ecology and Environment: Colonial Period
- Ecology and Environment: Republican Period
- Ecology and Environment: Revolutionary Period
- Economy. Economy: Colonial Period
- Economy: Republican Period
- Economy: Revolutionary Period
- Economy: Special Period
- Education. Education: Colonial Period
- Education: Republican Period
- Education: Revolutionary Period: Stages of Educational Reform
- Education: Revolutionary Period: Philosophy
- Education: Literacy Campaign of 1961
- Education: Schools in the Countryside
- Education: Cuban Schools in Miami
- Elpidio Valdés: A Revolutionary Cartoon Hero
- Enrique Jorrín and the Cha-Cha-Cha
- Esculturas Rupestres and other Works by Ana Mendieta
- Esteban Salas: An Eighteenth-Century Composer
- Faith. Faith: Catholicism
- Faith: Afro-Cuban Religions and Revolution
- Faith: Abakuá Society
- Faith: Arará
- Faith: Regla de Ocha and Ifá
- Faith: Reglas de Palo Congo.
- Faith: Spiritism
- Faith: Vodou
- Faith: Protestantism in Cuba
- Faith: Rastafari
- Faith: Judaism
- Fefu and Her Friends (María Irene Fornés)
- Film. Film: Early History to 1930
- Film: 1931-1959
- Film: 1959-1989
- Film: 1989-2010
- Film: Cuban Cinema of the Diaspora
- The Films of Jorge Molina and Eduardo Del Llano
- Florida
- Food. Food: Colonial Period
- Food: Republican Period
- Food: Revolutionary Period
- Food: Ritual Foods and Afro-Cuban Religious Traditions
- Food: Food Shortages and Gender
- Gallo Amarillo (Mariano Rodríguez)
- Gender. Gender: Colonial Period to 1920
- Gender: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Cuba
- Gender: The Role of Women in the Struggle Against Batista
- Gender: Social Justice in the Revolutionary Period
- Gender: Feminism and Masculinity in the Revolutionary Period
- Gender: Trends in Women's Writing after the Revolution
- Gender: Women Behind the Camera
- Gender: Gender Roles in Union City: A Case Study
- La Gitana Tropical and the Artistic Influence of Víctor Manuel
- Gloria and Emilio Estefan: Latin Music's Power Couple
- Gómez, Guillén, Giral: Three Underappreciated Filmmakers.
- Governance and Contestation. Governance and Contestation: Colonial Period
- Governance and Contestation: The Republic: 1902-1952
- Governance and Contestation: Insurrection, 1952-1959
- Governance and Contestation: The Cuban Revolution
- "La Guantanamera"
- Guantánamo
- Guerrillero Heroico (Alberto Korda)
- Havana. Havana: Architectural Development and City Planning
- Havana: Atlantic Center of Shipping, Commerce, and Building
- Havana: El Morro and La Cabaña
- Havana: Havana as Cultural Center
- Havana: History of Urbanization, Housing, and Public Services
- Havana: Urban and Social History in the Twentieth Century
- Health and Health Care. Health and Health Care: Introduction
- Health and Health Care: Pre-1959
- Health and Health Care: Revolutionary Period
- Health and Health Care: HIV/AIDS
- Health and Health Care: Medical Diplomacy and International Medical Education
- History Will Absolve Me (Fidel Castro)
- Holguín
- Indagación Del Choteo (Jorge Mañach)
- Isla De Pinos
- La Isla En Peso (Virgilio Piñera)
- José Martí: Exile in New York
- José Martí: Political Essays
- José Martí: Writings for and about Childrens
- La Jungla and the Artistic Development of Wifredo Lam
- Kid Chocolate
- The Kingdom of this World (Alejo Carpentier).
- Volume 2. L-Z. Language. Language: Abakuá In Cuba And Its Influence On Spanish Usage
- Language: Lucumí
- Language: Spanish
- Life on The Hyphen (Gustavo Pérez Firmat)
- Literature. Literature: Nationalist and Reformist Literature, pre-1850
- Literature: Fiction in the Republican Period
- Literature: Fiction in the Revolutionary Period
- Literature: Fiction in the Special Period
- Literature: Children's Literature in Cuba Since 1959
- Literature: Nonfiction in the Colonial Period
- Literature: Nonfiction in the Republican Period
- Literature: Nonfiction in the Revolutionary Period
- Literature: Nonfiction in the Special Period
- Literature: Poetry in the Colonial Period
- Literature: Poetry in the Republican Period
- Literature: Poetry in the Revolutionary Period
- Literature: Poetry in the Special Period
- Literature: Publishing in Cuba During the Republican Period
- Literature: Testimonial Literature
- Lucía (Humberto Solás)
- The Machado Dictatorship Falls: August 1933
- The "Mambo King": Dámaso Pérez Prado
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos)
- Mario Carreño: His Art and World
- Matanzas.
- Mauricio's Diary (Manolo Pérez)
- Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
- Miami
- Milk of Amnesia (Carmelita Tropicana/Alina Troyano)
- Misa Cubana (Cuban Mass, José María Vitier)
- El Monte (Lydia Cabrera)
- Mr. Rhythm: Benny Moré
- Music. Music: Early History
- Music: 19th Century
- Music: 1900-1945
- Music: 1945-1958
- Music: Music since 1959
- Music: Nueva Trova (New Song): Music of the Cuban Revolution
- Music: Afro-Cuban Religious Influence on Cuban Popular Music
- Music: Ritual Music
- Music: Afro-Cuban Jazz
- Music: Cuban Rock
- Music: Hip Hop
- The Music of Ernesto Lecuona
- New York City
- Operation Pedro Pan
- Orígenes Group and Journal
- Palo Monte and Ancestral Spirits: The Art of José Bedia
- Paradiso (José Lezama Lima)
- Performing Arts. Performing Arts: Cuban Forms of Popular Dance
- Performing Arts: Dance: Ballet
- Performing Arts: Dance: Folkloric Dance
- Performing Arts: Dance: Modern Dance
- Performing Arts: Opera
- Performing Arts: Theater: Colonial Period
- Performing Arts: Theater: Republican Period
- Performing Arts: Theater: Revolutionary Period
- Performing Arts: Bufo Theater.
- Performing Arts: Performance Art
- Peruvian Embassy Crisis and the Mariel Boatlift: 1980
- Platt Amendment
- Playwrights of the Revolution: Abelardo Estorino and Eugenio Hernández Espinosa
- The Poetry of José Kozer
- The Poetry of Nicolás Guillén
- Political Perspectives on Prisoners in Cuba
- The Politics and Death of Eduardo Chibás
- Popular Festivities and Celebrations in Cuba
- Popular Songs of the 1920s
- "Queen of Salsa": Celia Cruz
- Race. Race: Introduction
- Race: Slavery in Cuba
- Race: Free People of Color in Cuba
- Race: Racial Issues During the Transition to Independence
- Race: Afro-Cubanía in the Republic, 1907 to 1959
- Race: Race Relations After the Revolution
- Race: The Chinese in Cuba
- Racial Uprising and Massacre: 1912
- Radio. Radio: Beginnings and Development
- Radio: Commercial and Cultural Programming in Cuba
- Radio: Cuban Radio in South Florida
- Radio: Soap Operas
- Rafter Crisis: 1994
- El Rapto De Las Mulatas and the Artistic Development of Carlos Enríquez
- The Ration System in Cuba
- Raúl Corrales: Photographer of the Revolution
- Relocation of the Audiencia to Cuba, 1799-1801.
- "Rita De Cuba": Rita Montaner
- Sab (Gertrudis Gómez De Avellaneda)
- Santa Clara's Leoncio Vidal Park
- Santiago De Cuba
- Science and Technology in Cuba
- La Sentencia (Belkis Ayón)
- Sexuality. Sexuality: Colonial Period
- Sexuality: Republican Period
- Sexuality: Revolutionary Period
- Sexuality: Jinetera and the Special Period
- Sexuality: Diaspora and Sexuality
- Sexuality: Gay and Lesbian Representation in Cuban Art, Film, and Literature
- Sexuality: The Mulata Figure in the Cuban Imaginary
- Sexuality: The Umap Camps
- Son Innovations: Arsenio Rodríguez
- Spain's "Discovery" of cuba: 1492
- Spanish-American-Cuban War: 1898
- Sports. Sports: Colonial Period
- Sports: Republican Period
- Sports: Revolutionary Period
- Sports: Baseball Before 1959
- Sports: Baseball After 1959
- Sports: Boxing Before 1959
- Sports: Boxing After 1959
- Sports: Soccer in the Cuban Republic
- The Still Lifes Of Amelia Peláez
- Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío)
- Sugar. Sugar: Colonial Period
- Sugar: Republican Period
- Sugar: Revolutionary Period
- Sugar: Representation in Cuban Culture.
- The Sugarmill (Manuel Moreno Fraginals)
- Suite Habana (Fernando Pérez)
- El Super (León Ichaso)
- Television. Television: Beginnings and Development
- Television: Television since 1959
- Television: Russian Cartoons
- Television: Soap Operas
- Ten Years' War: 1868-1878
- Three Trapped Tigers (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
- Tobacco. Tobacco: in Art and Culture
- Tobacco: Art of Tobacco Labels
- Tobacco: Cultivation: Botany
- Tobacco: Cultivation: Chemistry
- Trinidad
- El Triunfo De La Rumba (Eduardo Abela)
- Últimos Días De Una Casa (Dulce María Loynaz)
- Valle De Viñales
- Varadero
- Versos Sencillos (José Martí)
- La Virgen De La Caridad Del Cobre
- Visual Arts
- The Works of Tania Bruguera
- The World and Cuba. The World and Cuba: Cuba and Spain in the Colonial Period
- The World and Cuba: Cuba and Spain in the Post-Colonial Period
- The World and Cuba: Cuba and the United States
- The World and Cuba: U.S. Culture in Cuba
- The World and Cuba: Cuba and Africa
- The World and Cuba: Cuba and Socialist Countries
- The World and Cuba: Cuban Revolution and Latin America
- The World and Cuba: Cuban Revolution and the New Left
- The World and Cuba: Ideological Struggle in the United Nations
- Thematic Outline.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cuba.
- ISBN:
- 9780684316840
- 0684316846
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