Böcker av Antoni Kapcia

Historical Dictionary of Cuba contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba.

Offers an account of the city and its cultural development, focusing on the role played by the city's cultural communities in the search for national identity. This book looks at the often creative tensions between external influences (especially Spain, France and the United States) and indigenous cultural pressures.

What is at the root of the continuity and success of the Cuban "Revolution" and in what sense can it be termed a "revolution"? This study of Cuba examines its history and revolutionary transformation through the evolution of ideology and myth.

A history of the forgotten leaders of the Cuban Revolution.

Specialist researchers; academics in Cuban Studies/Latin American Studies/Cultural Studies; postgraduate students; undergraduate students (all years); enthusiasts. -- .

The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world's attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. The author provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959.