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Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the...

Within the world of Cuban slave-holding plantations, all enslaved people had to negotiate a life defined by forces beyond their...

This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886-from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to...

A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and...

This new book provides a first-hand, grassroots look at life in Cuba, including very vivid descriptions of its people and...

Even though Fidel Castro founded the "26 of July" movement, this book shows that the organizing throughout Cuba fell on...

A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary...

By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the...

Freedom of religion did not come easily to Cuba or Puerto Rico. Only after the arrival of American troops during...

Shadow of a Myth is the story of Martín Guevara, the nephew of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. On Martín's tenth birthday,...

Tobacco's four hundred years as a global chess piece, a vital part of a fragile economy, and forbidden fruit of...

"Why do I fight here in this land so foreign to my own? Why did I come here far from...

United States-Cuban Relations breaks new ground in its treatment of this long and tumultuous relationship by arguing that U.S. policy...

José Martí (1853-1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the...

The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her...

En octubre de 1965, el Presidente Lyndon Johnson declaró que el espíritu de Estados Unidos celebra la tradición de asilo...

Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliot and former Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally here contribute a lengthy, revealing interview with Cuban President Fidel...

Originally published in 1950, this analysis by three respected activists successfully predicted the future course of Marxism. Their revolutionary critique...

The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 offers a detailed examination of the sociopolitical and economic background of the Matanzas...

While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how...