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Afro-Cuban Voices - On Race And Identity In Contemporary Cuba

de Jean Stubbs e Pedro Paâ©Rez Sarduy

39,14€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Based on the vivid firsthand testimony of prominent Afro-Cubans who live in Cuba, this book of interviews looks at ways that race affects daily life on the island. While celebrating their racial and national identity, the collected voices express an urgent need to end the silences and distortions of history in both pre- and postrevolutionary Cuba.
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Rescuing Our Roots - The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora In Contemporary Cuba

de Andrea J. Queeley

99,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In the early twentieth century, laborers from the British West Indies immigrated to Cuba, attracted by employment opportunities. The Anglo-Caribbean diaspora flourished, but the years after the 1959 revolution saw the dismantling of many of their cultural institutions: the revolution dictated that in the name of unity there would be no hyphenated Cubans. This book turns an ethnographic lens on their descendants who—during the Special Period in the 1990s—moved to "rescue their roots" by revitalizing their ethnic associations and reestablishing transnational ties.Based on Andrea Queeley’s fieldwork in Santiago and Guantánamo, Rescuing Our Roots looks at local and regional identity formations as well as racial politics in revolutionary Cuba. Queeley argues that, as the island experienced a resurgence in racism due in part to the economy’s reliance on tourism, Anglo-Caribbean Cubans sought transnational connections not just in the hope of material support but also to challenge the association between blackness, inferiority, and immorality. Their desire for social mobility, political engagement, and a better economic situation operated alongside the fight for black respectability.Unlike most studies of black Cubans, which focus on Afro-Cuban religion or popular culture, Queeley’s penetrating investigation offers a view of strategies and modes of black belonging that shift across ideological, temporal, and spatial boundaries.
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Sustainable Urban Agriculture In Cuba

de Sinan Koont

12,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 As large-scale industrial agriculture comes under increasing scrutiny because of its petroleum- and petrochemical-based input costs and environmentally objectionable consequences, increasing attention has been focused on sustainable, local, and agro-ecological techniques in food production. Cuba was forced by historical circumstances to be one of the pioneers in the massive application of these techniques.After the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba was left without access to external support needed to carry on with industrial agriculture. The economic crisis led the country to reconsider their former models of resource management. Cuba retooled its agricultural programs to focus on urban agriculture—sustainable, ecologically sound farming close to densely populated areas. Food now takes far less time to get to the people, who are now better nourished because they have easier access to whole foods. Moreover, urban farming has become a source of national pride—Cuba has one of the best urban agriculture programs in the world, with a thousand-fold increase in urban agricultural output since 1994.Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many sustainable farms on the island. He tells the story of why and how Cuba was able to turn to urban food production on a large scale with minimal use of chemicals, petroleum, and machinery, and of the successes it achieved—along with the continuing difficulties it still faces in reducing its need for food imports.
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Fifty Years Of Revolution - Perspectives On Cuba, The United States, And The World

59,56€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In the years since the Cuban Revolution in 1959, eleven men have served as president of the United States, arguably the most powerful nation on earth. Yet none of them has been able to effect any significant change in the stalemate between the United States and Cuba, its closest neighbor not to share a land border.Fifty Years of Revolution features contributions from an international Who''s Who gallery of leading scholars. The volume adopts a uniquely nonpartisan attitude, a departure from this topic''s generally divisive nature.Emerging from a series of meetings, conference panels, and lectures, the book coheres more strongly than the typical essay collection. Organized to analyze--not describe--Cuba’s foreign relations, the work examines sanctions, the embargo, regime change, Guantánamo, the exile community, and more.Drawing from personal experiences as well as recently declassified documents, these essays update, summarize, and explain one of the prickliest political issues in the Western Hemisphere today.
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Cuban Revelations - Behind The Scenes In Havana

de Marc Frank

32,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Ritual, Discourse, And Community In Cuban Santeria - Speaking A Sacred World

de Kristina Wirtz

25,54€

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Furiously Funny - Comic Rage From Ralph Ellison To Chris Rock

de Terrence T. Tucker

28,38€

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 A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love - Terrence Tucker calls it ""comic rage"", and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America's racial divide.
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Perspectives On American Dance - The Twentieth Century

45,29€

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 The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume and its companion show how social experience, courtship, sexualities, and other aspects of life in America are translated through dancing into spatial patterns, gestures, and partner relationships.
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Willy Ley - Prophet Of The Space Age

de Jared S. Buss

25,67€

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 Willy Ley inspired young rocket scientists and would-be astronauts around the world to imagine a future of interplanetary travel long before space shuttles existed. This is the first biography of the science writer and rocketeer who predicted and boosted the rise of the Space Age.
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The Final Mission - Preserving Nasa'S Apollo Sites

de Beth O'Leary, Lisa Westwood e Milford W. Donaldson

25,67€

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 Across the American landscape and on the lunar surface, many facilities and landing sites linked to the Apollo program remain unprotected. Some have already crumbled to ruins-silent and abandoned. The Final Mission explores these key locations, reframes the footprints and items left on the moon as cultural resources, and calls for the urgent preservation of this space heritage.
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Iraq From Monarchy To Tyranny: From The Hashemites To The Rise Of Saddam - From The Hashemites To The Rise Of Saddam

de University Press Of Florida

31,08€

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The Generalship Of Muhammad - Battles And Campaigns Of The Prophet Of Allah

de Russ Rodgers

25,67€

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 Merges original sources with the latest in military theory to examine Muhammad's military strengths and weaknesses. Incorporating military, political, and economic analyses, Russ Rodgers focuses on Muhammad's use of insurgency warfare in seventh-century Arabia. He provides battlefield maps and explores the supply and logistic problems that would have plagued any military leader at the time.
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Sustainable Urban Agriculture In Cuba

de Sinan Koont

25,67€

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 Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many sustainable farms on the island. He tells the story of why and how Cuba was able to turn to urban food production on a large scale with minimal use of chemicals, petroleum, and machinery, and of the successes it achieved.
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Mile Marker Zero - The Moveable Feast Of Key West

de William Mckeen

26,97€

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 For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation there was another moveable feast: Key West, Florida. Mile Marker Zero tells the story of how writers and artists found their identities in Key West and maintained their friendships over the decades.
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Cuba In A Global Context - International Relations, Internationalism, And Transnationalism

31,08€

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 There is a great deal more to Cuba's place on the global stage than its contentious relationship with the United States. Taking a refreshing look at Cuban international relations, contributors to this volume from both inside and outside the island explore the myriad ways in which it has not only maintained but often increased its reach and influence.
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Florida'S Paved Bike Trails

de Gretchen Kunerth e Jeff Kunerth

27,03€

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 This updated edition of the best-selling guide to bicycling in Florida adds twenty-three new trails to an already impressive roster, offering cyclistsâ€"as well as rollerbladers, joggers, and walkers - vital details on over sixty trails across Florida.
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Flora Of Florida, Volume Iii - Dicotyledons, Vitaceae Through Urticaceae

de Bruce F. Hansen e Richard P. Wunderlin

75,71€

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 With more than 4,000 kinds of native and non-native ferns and fern allies, nonflowering seed plants, and flowering seed plants, Florida has the third largest plant diversity of any state in the US. Richard Wunderlin and Bruce Hansen provide a means to identify this vast array of plants with the only comprehensive identification manual and definitive guide to Florida's flora.
Atlantic Seashore Field Guide - Florida To Canada

de J. Duane Sept

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 A photographic guide to the common plants and animals that inhabit the intertidal zone--the area covered by water at high tide and exposed during low tide--on the Atlantic coast from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Cape Breton, Canada.
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Fleye Design - Techniques, Insights, Patterns

de Bob Popovics e Jay Nichols

48,93€

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 In the twelve years since his landmark book Pop Fleyes, Bob Popovics has continued to develop new fly patterns and improve old favorites. His new book includes 36 step-by-step tying and technique tutorials, over 12 new patterns, and numerous variations for every situation, plus contributions from a new generation of fly tiers who have been influenc
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The Mulatto Republic

de April J. Mayes

20,27€

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 Looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. April Mayes explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favour privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism.
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Rescuing Our Roots - The African Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora In Contemporary Cuba

de Andrea Queeley

77,06€

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Healthcare Without Borders - Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism

de John M. Kirk

82,46€

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 Cuba has more medical personnel serving abroad - over 50,000 in 66 countries - than all of the G-7 countries combined and more than the World Health Organization. In Healthcare Without Borders, John Kirk examines the role of Cuban medical teams in disaster relief, biotechnology joint ventures, and in the Latin American School - the largest medical faculty in the world.
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Indians Of The Greater Southeast - Historical Archaeology And Ethnohistory (Co-Published With The Society For Historical Archaeology)

de Ian McEwan

64,89€

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 A collection of essays by scholars, summarizing what we know of the development of native American cultures in the southeastern USA after 1500. The authors integrate archaeological, documentary and ethno-historical evidence.
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Cuba Today And Tomorrow - Reinventing Socialism

de Max Azicri

67,59€

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 A provocative summary, analysis and evaluation of political, economic and cultural developments in Cuba since the revolution. In addition, the book also looks at the international relations of Cuba in the tumultous decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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