Latins are Still Lousy Lovers
Author: Helen Lawrenson
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780709110637
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Life on the Hyphen
Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0292735995
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 1510
ISBN-13:
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Author: Louis A. Pérez
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9780807858998
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On Becoming Cuban
Author: Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 1469601419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.
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The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin
Author: Robert Kimball
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781557836816
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The Cuban Connection
Author: Eduardo Sáenz Rovner
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780807888582
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Cuba
Author: Tom Miller
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1932361103
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