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Nattens rejsende er en historisk roman om fire generationer af kvinder, der oplever kærlighed, tab, krig og håb fra nazismens fremkomst til den cubanske revolution og til sidst Berlinmurens fald.Berlin, 1931: Da nazisterne overtager magten i Det Tyske Rige, må den unge Ally Keller føre en farlig og desperat plan ud i livet for at sende sin datter Lilith over Atlanten i sikkerhed for Hitlers dødbringende ideologi.Havana, 1958: Tredive år senere får Lilith datteren Nadine med den cubanske pilot, Martin, der har stærke bånd til Batista-regeringen, men da revolutionens flammer antændes, står mor og datter ved en afgørende skillevej.Berlin, 1988: Som voksen begynder Nadine endelig at undersøge de valg, hendes mor og mormor traf for at sikre deres børns overlevelse. Men det bliver op til datteren Luna at komme overens med et chokerende forræderi i familiens fortid.

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba

Facing up to twenty years in a Cuban prison, my father had to make the hardest decision of his life; remain in Cuba and go to prison or find a way to escape to the United States.The climate in a Fidel Castro led communist country was just too much to bear, and carrying the last name Ochoa, meant we would always be a target. His decision would mean that we would have to risk everything, including our lives, for a chance at a better future.Under normal circumstances, the decision to provide your family with a better future wouldn't be a hard one to make. It would in fact be the absolute easiest decision that you would ever be faced with.But it was 1994, it was Cuba, and these circumstances were anything but normal.CONTENT WARNINGS: This memoir covers a range of true events and experiences that can be triggering, including but not limited to: Death and near-death experiences by various means, suicide by others in the detention camps, self-harm by others in the detention camps, mentions of domestic violence by a parent, mentions of alcoholism by a parent

Nowhere in the United States did the Age of Democratic Revolution exert as profound an influence as in New Orleans. In 1809-10, refugees of the Haitian Revolution doubled the size of the city. In 1811, hundreds of Saint-Dominguan, African, and Louisianan plantation workers marched downriver toward the city in the nation's largest-ever slave revolt. Itinerant revolutionaries from throughout the Atlantic congregated in New Orleans in the cause of Latin American independence. Together with the refugee soldiers of the Haitian Revolution (both Black and white), their presence proved decisive in the Battle of New Orleans. After defeating the British, the soldiers rejoined the struggle against Spanish imperialism. In Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775-1877, Caryn Cossé Bell sets forth these momentous events and much more to document the revolutionary era's impact on the city. Bell's study begins with the 1883 memoir of Hélène d'Aquin Allain, a French Creole and descendant of the refugee community, who grew up in antebellum New Orleans. Allain's d'Aquin forebears fought alongside the Savarys, a politically influential free family of color, in the Haitian Revolution. Forced from Saint-Domingue/Haiti, the allied families retreated to New Orleans. Bell's reconstruction of the d'Aquin family network, interracial alliances, and business partnerships provides a productive framework for exploring the city's presence at the crossroads of the revolutionary Atlantic. Residing in New Orleans in the heyday of French Romanticism, Allain experienced a cultural revolution that exerted an enormous influence on religious beliefs, literature, politics, and even, as Bell documents, the practice of medicine in the city. In France, the highly politicized nature of the movement culminated in the 1848 French Revolution with its abolition of slavery and enfranchisement of freed men and women. During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Afro-Creole leaders of the diasporic community pointed to events in France and stood in the forefront of the struggle to revolutionize race relations in their own nation. As Bell demonstrates, their cultural and political legacy remains a formidable presence in twenty-first-century New Orleans.

"Through the intimate lens of one family, the dramatic history that led to the Cuban Revolution is brought to life in this highly personal and moving story that combines memoir, oral history, family papers, and archival research"--

A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.

For many years he investigated the lives of the twelve young people who sacrificed their lives for the cause of freedom, fraternity and human dignity. This book is the result of that work and leaves for history the lives of those martyrs who knew how to shout, before dying: LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING!*****************************************************************************Por muchos años investigó la vida de los doce jóvenes que sacrificaron sus vidas por la causa de la libertad, fraternidad y dignidad humana. Este libro es resultado de ese trabajo y deja para la historia la vida de aquellos mártires que supieron gritar, antes de morir: ¡VIVA CRISTO REY!

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history?the Cuban Missile Crisis?providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century?the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis?America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors.Combining in-depth research with Hasting's well-honed insights, The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide, colorful canvas. As the action moves back and forth from Moscow to Washington, DC, to Havana, Hastings seeks to explain, as much as to describe, the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and to recreate the tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance. Reflecting on the outcome of these events, he reveals how the aftermath of this momentous crisis continues to reverberate today.Powerful, and riveting, filled with compelling detail and told with narrative flair, The Abyss is history at its finest.

Tying in with political and cultural changes in Europe, this volume focuses on current discourses on the significance of democratic systems in opposition to authoritarian regimes, to fathom the transformations but also the continuities in children's and young adult literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. One aim of the book is to calibrate the political, poetic, and receptive examination of children's and young adult literature and to depict it from a historical and systematic perspective. Characterized by an internationally comparative scope this volume revolves around the following questions with a view to childhood constructions: What continuities but also changes are discernible? What political and ideological concepts are inherent in children's and young adult literature? How are World War II and the postwar period represented in children's books? What role do trauma and (post)memory play? And how is the discourse on flight and migration shaped?

"Yvonne Conde presents poignant stories from individuals who left Cuba between 1960 and 1962 in one of the world's largest political exoduses of children"--

Explains the Nuts-and-Bolts of Collective Indoctrination and Political Integration Programs and the Resulting Cultural Changes

"Cubantropâia (Cubanthropy) is a work of cultural criticism whose title is a neologism coined by the author to describe the energy between anthropology and entropy, the space between the street and the library, the island and the world. These collected essays, written in Ivâan de la Nuez's trademark ironic, erudite style, range in subject matter from the Berlin Wall to Havana's Malecâon. This book examines recent clashes between the market and democracy, the digital era and post-colonialism, the centre and the periphery, utopia and tourism, the diaspora and the nation, racism and Big Data, Guantâanamo and Reggaeton, soccer and baseball, Obama and the Rolling Stones, Europe and Donald Trump. It is written between the socialist perspective of the Cold War and the neoliberal perspective of subsequent years, and is equally critical of both and of geopolitics in the age of globalization. The author, Cuban art critic and curator Ivâan de la Nuez does not seek to explain his motherland to the world but uses it as a scaled-down referent in which contemporary socio-political conflicts are intensified. Though Fidel Castro and his death are omnipresent in this collection of essays, the word "Castro" intentionally appears less often than "future," "art," "life," or "journey." In Cubantropâia, Cuba is not a separate, discreet place, but a miniature of the world and its conflicts. Cubantropâia can be read as an intellectual autobiography, a map of itineraries of New Men born out of the revolution, or a bacchanalia of the consequences that arise from a world obsessed with causes and culprits"--

"Examines the flourishing relationship between North Korea, Cuba, and the Latin American Left through the 1960s, offering a new understanding of North Korean foreign policy and the rise of Tricontinentalism. An important addition to studies on the international Left and the Cold War"--

Cuba's third war of independence had begun in February 1865. The US declared war on Spain in April 1898 and in June the first detachment of the notorious "Rough Riders" landed on Cuban shores. Embedded alongside them were a number of journalists, including thirty-year-old Harrie Irving Hancock. What One Man Saw is a record of his experiences on the island, published later the same year.

As a spy prepared to give away America’s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her.

Agree to disagree? A Cooperative Disagreement demonstrates how Canada and the United States ¿ neighbours by geography and close allies by design ¿ successfully kept their differences over revolutionary Cuba from permanently damaging their relationship.

For readers who are interested in Cuban urban art that has gained strength in the last ten years, this book will be useful and attractive, not only because of its structure of being told in the voice of one of its protagonists Yojany Pérez Rivera, who was four years in a row surf champion and also winner of several skateboarding competitions, but for the approach to different parts of the country's cultural life, other artistic expressions such as tattoos and the work of different national and international graffiti artists who have gone to paint in the streets of Havana. All these associations have been captured by Yojany's camera, who after studying at the University of the Arts, turned a hobby into a profession, into a work that has been exhibited inside and outside of Cuba in various exhibitions. This book testifies to the emergence and development of an urban culture within the island and of a Goon Vibes team that has become a great family and has been a bridge to fight for the legitimacy of the Cuban urban movement within and outside the borders of the Greater of the Antilles.

Journeys of Soviet Things is an oral history of the Cold War, in which Indians and Cubans use Soviet objects such as cars, washing machines, cameras, books and nesting dolls to narrate about Soviet friendship during the Cold War as personal, affective and everyday experience.

Illuminating theactivism of Black women during Cuba's prerevolutionary periodIn Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political history of the era, examining how Black women's engagement with questions of Cuban citizenship intersected with racial prejudice, gender norms, and sexual politics, incorporating Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist perspectives.Brunson demonstrates that between the 1886 abolition of slavery in Cuba and the 1959 Revolution, Black women--without formal political power--navigated political movements in their efforts to create a more just society. She examines how women helped build a Black public sphere as they claimed moral respectability and sought racial integration. She reveals how Black women entered into national women's organizations, labor unions, and political parties to bring about legal reforms. Brunson shows how women of African descent achieved individual victories as part of a collective struggle for social justice; in doing so, she highlights how racism and sexism persisted even as legal definitions of Cuban citizenship evolved.