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  • Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Julia E Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    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

    $9.99 CAD

  • Cuba

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Julia E. Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    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

    $9.99 CAD

  • Cuba

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Julia E. Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    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

    $9.99 CAD

  • Inside the Cuban Revolution

    Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground

    by Julia E. Sweig ...
    Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban underground, the Llano. Granted unprecedented access to the classified records of Castro's 26th of July Movement's underground operatives--the only ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Global Brazil and U.S.-Brazil Relations

    by Julia E. Sweig, Samuel W. Bodman, James D. Wolfensohn ...
    This Independent Task Force finds that Brazil is a significant international actor whose influence on global issues is likely to increase and recommends that U.S. policymakers and others recognize its global standing and work with Brazil to develop complementary policies. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War

    by Tanya Harmer ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende’s democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende’s left-wing government while Chilean opposition forces mobilized against him. The result was a battle for Chile that ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Diplomacy Meets Migration

    US Relations with Cuba during the Cold War

    by Hideaki Kami ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    Diplomacy Meets Migration examines diplomacy, migration, and the history of US relations with Cuba during the Cold War. Hideaki Kami draws on declassified US and Cuban diplomatic sources, as well as Miami-Cuban lobby records, to challenge traditional interpretations that mainly focus on the two national capitals, Washington and Havana. By incorporating Miami into the story of foreign affairs, Kami ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Caribbean Revolutions

    Cold War Armed Movements

    by Rachel A. May, Alejandro Schneider, Roberto González Arana ...
    This book provides both a historical introduction and a comparative analysis of the five most important guerrilla movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. The authors argue that the Cold War shaped and fueled the structure, tactics, and ideologies of the diverse movements taking place for the revolutionary ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Accidental President of Brazil

    A Memoir

    by Fernando Henrique Cardoso ...
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with ... Read more

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  • Che Guevara

    A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)

    by Jon Lee Anderson ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields ... Read more

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  • Spain

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by William Chislett ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®, a timely addition to Oxford's acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know® series, veteran journalist William Chislett provides much-needed political and historical context ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Holocaust

    Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by Paul Preston ...
    Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.The culmination of more than a decade of research, ‘The Spanish Holocaust’ seeks to reflect the intense horrors visited upon Spain during its ferocious civil war, the consequences of which still reverberate bitterly today.The brutal, murderous ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD