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History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / by Moya Pons, Frank, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The Spanish occupation of the Antilles -- Sugar and slaves in the Spanish Antilles -- Monopoly, privateers, and contraband -- The early tobacco colonies -- The Sugar Revolution in the Lesser Antilles -- Poverty in the Spanish Antilles -- The emergence of Saint-Domingue -- Caribbean sugar economies in the Eighteenth Century -- Caribbean trade circuits in the Eighteenth Century -- Trade and wars -- The French Revolution in the Antilles -- New peasantries in Haiti and Santo Domingo -- Abolitionism and crisis in the British West Indies -- Sugar without slaves in the British and French Antilles -- The Sugar Revolution in Cuba and Puerto Rico -- Abolitionism in the Spanish Antilles -- Centrales and colonos -- Plantations under American control -- Migrants, peasants, and proletarians -- Why the sugar plantation?.…”
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History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / by Moya Pons, Frank, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The Spanish occupation of the Antilles -- Sugar and slaves in the Spanish Antilles -- Monopoly, privateers, and contraband -- The early tobacco colonies -- The Sugar Revolution in the Lesser Antilles -- Poverty in the Spanish Antilles -- The emergence of Saint-Domingue -- Caribbean sugar economies in the Eighteenth Century -- Caribbean trade circuits in the Eighteenth Century -- Trade and wars -- The French Revolution in the Antilles -- New peasantries in Haiti and Santo Domingo -- Abolitionism and crisis in the British West Indies -- Sugar without slaves in the British and French Antilles -- The Sugar Revolution in Cuba and Puerto Rico -- Abolitionism in the Spanish Antilles -- Centrales and colonos -- Plantations under American control -- Migrants, peasants, and proletarians -- Why the sugar plantation?.…”
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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too -- Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902 -- Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy? …”
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Power and policy America's first steps to superpower, 1889-1922 / by Lenz, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too -- Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902 -- Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy? …”
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American spies : espionage against the US from the Cold War to the present / by Sulick, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…The Cold War: 1950-1970 -- The KGB rebuilds -- Spies in the enlisted ranks -- Vietnam and the 1960s -- Decade of turmoil: the 1970s -- Espionage and the 1970s -- Soviet science and technology espionage -- James Angleton and the spy hunt in the CIA -- The decade of the spy: Soviet spies of the 1980s -- Espionage in the 1980s -- Evil spy for the evil empire: John Walker -- The spy in the National Security Agency: Ronald Pelton -- A spy in the CIA: Edward Lee Howard -- The spy in the US Marine Corps: Clayton Lonetree -- The decade of the spy: other spies of the 1980s -- An illegal in the CIA: Karl Koecher -- The Army's John Walker: Clyde Conrad -- Spies for East Germany: James Michael Hall and Jeffrey Carney -- The spy for China: Larry Wu-Tai Chin -- The spy for Israel: Jonathan Pollard -- Espionage and the new world order: the 1990s -- The end of the Cold War and US counterespionage -- Aldrich Ames and his impact on the CIA -- The spy in the FBI: Robert Hanssen -- The last vestiges of Cold War espionage -- Espionage in the new millennium -- New threats, old threats -- Chinese nuclear espionage and Wen Ho Lee -- Spies for China -- Spies for Cuba I: Ana Belen Montes -- Spies for Cuba II: Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers -- Espionage and the war on terrorism -- Cyberespionage.…”
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American spies : espionage against the US from the Cold War to the present / by Sulick, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…The Cold War: 1950-1970 -- The KGB rebuilds -- Spies in the enlisted ranks -- Vietnam and the 1960s -- Decade of turmoil: the 1970s -- Espionage and the 1970s -- Soviet science and technology espionage -- James Angleton and the spy hunt in the CIA -- The decade of the spy: Soviet spies of the 1980s -- Espionage in the 1980s -- Evil spy for the evil empire: John Walker -- The spy in the National Security Agency: Ronald Pelton -- A spy in the CIA: Edward Lee Howard -- The spy in the US Marine Corps: Clayton Lonetree -- The decade of the spy: other spies of the 1980s -- An illegal in the CIA: Karl Koecher -- The Army's John Walker: Clyde Conrad -- Spies for East Germany: James Michael Hall and Jeffrey Carney -- The spy for China: Larry Wu-Tai Chin -- The spy for Israel: Jonathan Pollard -- Espionage and the new world order: the 1990s -- The end of the Cold War and US counterespionage -- Aldrich Ames and his impact on the CIA -- The spy in the FBI: Robert Hanssen -- The last vestiges of Cold War espionage -- Espionage in the new millennium -- New threats, old threats -- Chinese nuclear espionage and Wen Ho Lee -- Spies for China -- Spies for Cuba I: Ana Belen Montes -- Spies for Cuba II: Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers -- Espionage and the war on terrorism -- Cyberespionage.…”
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Pretty film and the decorative image / by Galt, Rosalind

Table of Contents: “…-- At the crossroads: iconoclasm and the anti-aesthetic in postwar film and theory -- Forms: Soy Cuba and revolutionary beauty -- Perverse prettiness: sexuality, gender, and aesthetic exclusion -- Bodies: the sumptuous charms of Ulrike Ottinger -- Postscript: toward a worldly image.…”
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Pretty film and the decorative image / by Galt, Rosalind

Table of Contents: “…-- At the crossroads: iconoclasm and the anti-aesthetic in postwar film and theory -- Forms: Soy Cuba and revolutionary beauty -- Perverse prettiness: sexuality, gender, and aesthetic exclusion -- Bodies: the sumptuous charms of Ulrike Ottinger -- Postscript: toward a worldly image.…”
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Success without victory lost legal battles and the long road to justice in America / by Lobel, Jules

Table of Contents: “…Ferguson : the fool's last battle -- Plant closing litigation : "Youngstown sure died hard" -- Politics versus law : were travelers to Cuba trading with the enemy? -- Challenging United States intervention in Central America -- End of an era: fighting U.S. action in Kosovo.…”
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Inequality and instability a study of the world economy just before the great crisis / by Galbraith, James K.

Table of Contents: “…The physics and ethics of inequality -- The need for new inequality measures -- Pay inequality and world development -- Estimating the inequality of household incomes -- Economic inequality and political regimes -- The geography of inequality in America, 1969 to 2007 -- State-level income inequality and American elections -- Inequality and unemployment in Europe : a question of levels -- European wages and the flexibility thesis -- Globalization and inequality in China -- Finance and power in Argentina and Brazil -- Inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse -- Economic inequality and the world crisis.…”
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Inequality and instability a study of the world economy just before the great crisis / by Galbraith, James K.

Table of Contents: “…The physics and ethics of inequality -- The need for new inequality measures -- Pay inequality and world development -- Estimating the inequality of household incomes -- Economic inequality and political regimes -- The geography of inequality in America, 1969 to 2007 -- State-level income inequality and American elections -- Inequality and unemployment in Europe : a question of levels -- European wages and the flexibility thesis -- Globalization and inequality in China -- Finance and power in Argentina and Brazil -- Inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse -- Economic inequality and the world crisis.…”
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Success without victory lost legal battles and the long road to justice in America / by Lobel, Jules

Table of Contents: “…Ferguson : the fool's last battle -- Plant closing litigation : "Youngstown sure died hard" -- Politics versus law : were travelers to Cuba trading with the enemy? -- Challenging United States intervention in Central America -- End of an era: fighting U.S. action in Kosovo.…”
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The Obama administration and the Americas agenda for change /

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Decolonizing Diasporas : Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature / by Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C

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Decolonizing Diasporas : Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature / by Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C

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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century : Setting the precedent / by Heraclides, Alexis, Dialla, Ada

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; Intervention in the Greek War of Independence, 1821-32 ; Intervention in Lebanon and Syria, 1860-61 ; The Bulgarian atrocities : a bird's eye view of intervention with emphasis on Britain, 1875-78 ; The Balkan crisis of 1875-78 and Russia : between humanitarianism and pragmatism ; The US and Cuba, 1895-98 -- Conclusion. Assessment.…”
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Humanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century : Setting the precedent / by Heraclides, Alexis, Dialla, Ada

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; Intervention in the Greek War of Independence, 1821-32 ; Intervention in Lebanon and Syria, 1860-61 ; The Bulgarian atrocities : a bird's eye view of intervention with emphasis on Britain, 1875-78 ; The Balkan crisis of 1875-78 and Russia : between humanitarianism and pragmatism ; The US and Cuba, 1895-98 -- Conclusion. Assessment.…”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? …”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Connell -- Identity Construct #4: Nation -- The Inequality of Human Races / Arthur de Gobineau -- On Becoming Cuban / Louis Perez -- Identity Construct #5: Latin America -- Journeys Through the Labyrinth / Gerald Martin -- The Search for Cultural Identity / Leslie Bary -- Local Histories, Global Designs / Walter Mignolo -- Reading(s) -- Civilized Folk Defeat the Barbarians: The Liberal Nation -- Facundo / Domingo Sarmiento -- Civilized Folk Marry the Barbarians: The Nationalist Nation -- Introduction to Doña Barbára by Rómulo Gallegos -- Doña Barbára / Rómulo Gallegos -- Introduction to Doris Sommer's Foundational Fictions -- Foundational Fictions / Doris Sommer -- Introduction to José Martí's "Our America" -- Our America / José Martí -- Film Foray: Los tres caballeros -- Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial Patriarchal Discourse / Julianne Burton -- The Socialist Utopia: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution -- Analyzing The Motorcycle Diaries -- Film Analysis: The Motorcycle Diaries -- Introduction to Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Harsh Angel" -- The Harsh Angel / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Film Analysis: Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (I Am Cuba) -- Boom Goes the Literature: Magical Realism as the True Latin America? …”
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