From The Escambray To The Congo

Author : Víctor Dreke
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Escambray to the Congo written by Víctor Dreke and published by Pathfinder Press (NY). This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were ready to die to bring down the Batista dictatorship," says Victor Dreke, "but we didn't know the first thing about revolution."

Author : Víctor Dreke
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Escambray to the Congo written by Víctor Dreke and published by Pathfinder Press (NY). This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were ready to die to bring down the Batista dictatorship," says Victor Dreke, "but we didn't know the first thing about revolution."

Author : Scott Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026911
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries in Asymmetric Conflicts written by Scott Fitzsimmons and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitzsimmons argues that small mercenary groups must maintain a superior culture to successfully engage and defeat larger and better-equipped opponents.

Author : Miguel A. Faria, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527510166
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba's Eternal Revolution through the Prism of Insurgency, Socialism, and Espionage written by Miguel A. Faria, Jr. and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only relates the defining moments of the Cuban Revolution – such as the Moncada Barracks attack, the assault on Batista’s Presidential Palace, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis – but also lesser-known events like the “War Against the Bandits”; the overseas adventures of Che Guevara in the Congo and Bolivia; Fidel Castro’s possible prior knowledge of and involvement in JFK’s assassination; Cuba’s “silent war against the environment”; and ongoing foreign intelligence operations. The book contains information most readers and academicians may not be familiar with and utilizes major tomes as sources that have only been published in Spanish and so are not widely available to international audiences outside of Spain and Latin America. It will enlighten readers about the realities of the Cuban Revolution – its purported achievements as well as its definite shortcomings; its impact on world events in the last seven decades; and correct the record where needed – enhancing the fount of knowledge for further research by social scientists, historians, and political scientists.

Author : Mozella G. Mitchell
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488639
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions written by Mozella G. Mitchell and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions concentrates on the effects of intersections in the Caribbean of major world religions such as Christianity (both Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, with indigenous religions such as Caribs and Arawaks, and African-derived religions such as Lucumi (Yoruba/Santeria/Regla de Ocha), Regla de Palo, Vodun, Obeah, Rastafari, Orisa, or Shango in Trinidad. Closely examined are the social and economic problems and issues of exile, slavery, oppression, racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, cultural dominance, religious diversity, syncretism, popular religiosity, religious and spiritual imperialism, continuity and change, survival techniques in the face of attempts at eradication by religious powers, interreligious dialogue, and the quest for universal spirituality.

Author : R. Joseph Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009020285
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tricontinental Revolution written by R. Joseph Parrott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tricontinental Revolution provides a major reassessment of the global rise and impact of Tricontinentalism, the militant strand of Third World solidarity that defined the 1960s and 1970s as decades of rebellion. Cold War interventions highlighted the limits of decolonization, prompting a generation of global South radicals to adopt expansive visions of self-determination. Long associated with Cuba, this anti-imperial worldview stretched far beyond the Caribbean to unite international revolutions around programs of socialism, armed revolt, economic sovereignty, and confrontational diplomacy. Linking independent nations with non-state movements from North Vietnam through South Africa to New York City, Tricontinentalism encouraged marginalized groups to mount radical challenges to the United States and the inequitable Euro-centric international system. Through eleven expert essays, this volume recenters global political debates on the priorities and ideologies of the Global South, providing a new framework, chronology, and tentative vocabulary for understanding the evolution of anti-imperial and decolonial politics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Gilbert M. Joseph
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392852
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Revolution written by Gilbert M. Joseph and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America’s twentieth century. Attentive to the interplay among overlapping local, regional, national, and international fields of power, the contributors focus on the dialectical relations between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary processes and their unfolding in the context of U.S. hemispheric and global hegemony. Through their fine-grained analyses of events in Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru, they suggest a framework for interpreting the experiential nature of political violence while also analyzing its historical causes and consequences. In so doing, they set a new agenda for the study of revolutionary change and political violence in twentieth-century Latin America. Contributors Michelle Chase Jeffrey L. Gould Greg Grandin Lillian Guerra Forrest Hylton Gilbert M. Joseph Friedrich Katz Thomas Miller Klubock Neil Larsen Arno J. Mayer Carlota McAllister Jocelyn Olcott Gerardo Rénique Corey Robin Peter Winn

Author : Jonathan C. Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978323
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba’s Revolutionary World written by Jonathan C. Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time “the real Revolution” had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro’s words proved prophetic not only for his countrymen but for Latin America and the wider world. Cuba’s Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the twentieth century’s most transformative events. Initially, Castro’s revolution augured well for democratic reform movements gaining traction in Latin America. But what had begun promisingly veered off course as Castro took a heavy hand in efforts to centralize Cuba’s economy and stamp out private enterprise. Embracing the Soviet Union as an ally, Castro and his lieutenant Che Guevara sought to export the socialist revolution abroad through armed insurrection. Castro’s provocations inspired intense opposition. Cuban anticommunists who had fled to Miami found a patron in the CIA, which actively supported their efforts to topple Castro’s regime. The unrest fomented by Cuban-trained leftist guerrillas lent support to Latin America’s military castes, who promised to restore stability. Brazil was the first to succumb to a coup in 1964; a decade later, military juntas governed most Latin American states. Thus did a revolution that had seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America bring about its tragic opposite.

Author : Mary-Alice Waters
Publisher : Pathfinder Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa written by Mary-Alice Waters and published by Pathfinder Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Transforming production and class relations * The Cuban revolution's internationalist road"In the decades of wars, economic crises, and explosive class battles that lie ahead, the weight of the toilers of Africa in shaping the future will be greater than ever before."Reporting from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa, the authors focus on the social transformations unfolding, as revenues from offshore oil extraction are used to build infrastructure on which rising labor productivity, industry, and progress depend. Pulled into the world market as never before, both a capitalist class and a working class are being born.Here also, in accounts of the work of volunteer Cuban medical brigades in Equatorial Guinea, is the living example of Cuba's socialist revolution-made possible by workers and farmers who were led five decades ago to take power into their own hands.Woven together, these seemingly disparate threads-the beginning transformation of production and class relations in Equatorial Guinea, and the proletarian course of the Cuban Revolution-show a future to be fought for today."Reliable basic information about contemporary Equatorial Guinea, information that would be of much value to any reader who is not familiar with the country."-African Studies QuarterlyIntroduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, maps, index.

Author : Lisandro Perez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970805
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuban Studies 34 written by Lisandro Perez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.