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A contemporary Cuba reader : the revolution under Raúl Castro /

This completely revised and updated edition focuses on Cuba since Raúl Castro took over the country's leadership in 2006. A Contemporary Cuba Reader brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in present-day Cuba...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Brenner, Philip (Autor, Editor ), Jiménez, Marguerite Rose, 1982- (Autor, Editor ), Kirk, John M., 1951- (Autor, Editor ), LeoGrande, William M. (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: History as prologue: Cuba before 2006 / Philip Brenner, Marguerite Rose Jiménez, John M. Kirk, and William M. LeoGrande
  • Continuity and change in Cuba at fifty: the revolution at a crossroads / Carlos Alzugaray Treto
  • Cuba's new socialism: different visions shaping current changes / Camila Piñeiro Harnecker
  • After Fidel: the communist party of Cuba on the brink of generational change / William M. LeoGrande
  • The revolutionary armed forces: loyalty and efficiency in the face of old and new challenges / Hal Klepak
  • The collapse of socialism is beyond the present horizon / Rafael Hernández, interviewed by Edmundo García
  • Religion and civil society in Cuba, 1959-2013 / Margaret E. Crahan
  • From cyberspace to public space? The emergent blogosphere and Cuban civil society / Ted A. Henken, Sjamme van de Voort
  • The promise besieged: participation and autonomy in Cuba / Armando Chaguaceda
  • Challenges of economic restructuring in Cuba / Jorge Mario Sánchez Egozcue
  • Updating the Cuban economic model / Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva
  • Cuba's entrepreneurs: foundation of a new private sector / Philip Peters
  • Cuban agriculture and the current process of economic transformation / Armando Nova González
  • The new Cuban economy: what roles for foreign investment? / Richard E. Feinberg
  • The political economy of leisure / Marguerite Rose Jiménez
  • Remittance recipients and the present and future of microentrepreneurship activities in Cuba / Manuel Orozco, Katrin Hansing
  • Poverty and vulnerability in Cuba today / María del Carmen Zabala Argüelles
  • Economic illegalities and the underground economy in Cuba / Archibald R.M. Ritter
  • Raúlista foreign policy: a macroperspective / H. Michael Erisman
  • China and the future of Cuba / Adrian H. Hearn
  • Cuban-Latin American and Caribbean relations: challenges beyond / Monica Hirst
  • Cuban medical internationalism under Raúl Castro / John M. Kirk
  • Cuban public diplomacy / Michael J. Bustamante, Julia E. Sweig
  • The Cuban five and the U.S. war against terror / Saul Landau
  • Untying the knot: the possibility of a respectful dialogue between Cuba and the United States / Philip Brenner, Soraya M. Castro Mariño
  • Emigration and U.S.-Cuba bilateral relations / Antonio Aja Díaz
  • Dialogues within and between Cuba and its diaspora / Jorge I. Domínguez
  • Cuba, a country with a broken heart / Leonardo Padura Fuentes
  • Living and creating in Cuba: risks and challenges / Leonardo Padura Fuentes
  • A black woman from Cuba, that's all: an interview with Nancy Morejón / Nancy Morejón
  • Two songs / Carlos Varela
  • Culture for the masses? / Daniel Salas González
  • Nationhood and identity in contemporary Cuban art / Sandra Levinson
  • Questioning authority: cultural expression of contemporary Cuban youth / Ana M. Ruiz Aguirre
  • Zooming in: making and marketing films in twenty-first-century Cuba / Ann Marie Stock
  • Recovering from crisis? Literature, publishing, and nation building in contemporary Cuba / Par Kumaraswami, Antoni Kapcia
  • Cuban sport development: building capacity from el parque to the podium / Robert Huish, Simon C. Darnell
  • Cuban youth: from the special period to the updating of the economic and social model / María Isabel Domínguez
  • Notes on the race question in Cuba today / Esteban Morales
  • Memorable characters of Cuba / Tracey Eaton
  • Cuba's recent embrace of agroecology: urban and suburban agriculture / Sinan Koont
  • The Cuban health system: in search of quality, efficiency, and sustainability / Conner Gorry, C. William Keck
  • Fifty years later: women and social change in Cuba / Clotilde Proveyer Cervantes, Reina Fleitas Ruiz, Graciela Gonazález Olmedo, Blanca Múnster Infante, María Auxiliadora César
  • Cuban educational reform during the special period: dust, ashes, and diamonds / Denise Blum
  • The changing dynamics of sexuality: CENESEX and the revolution / Emily J. Kirk
  • Transcript of television interview with Mariela Castro / Amy Goodman
  • Surfing revolico.com: Cuba's answer to Craig's list / John M. Kirk
  • Cuba chronology: 2006-2013.