Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 24

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 12

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Cirilo Villaverde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199725233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 545

Get Book Here

Book Description
Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.

Author: José Padín
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 752

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: United States. Navy Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Martin Van Creveld
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Get Book Here

Book Description
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War.

Author: Thomas Bartlett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521629898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596

Get Book Here

Book Description
This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It integrates the best recent scholarship in military history into its social and political context to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Irish military experience. The eighteen chronologically-organised chapters are written by leading scholars each of whom is an authority on the period in question. Drawing the whole work together is a wide-ranging introductory essay on the 'Irish military tradition' which explores the relationship of Irish society and politics with militarism and military affairs. The text is illustrated throughout by over 120 pictures and maps.

Author: Edwin Lieuwen
Publisher: New York : Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Get Book Here

Book Description
The first comprehensive analysis of Spain's naval forces after the defeat of the Great Armada in 1588.

Author: Stacy B. Schaefer
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826319050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Get Book Here

Book Description
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.