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Since Fidel Castro staged a coup and assumed power of Cuba in 1959, the United States has been obsessed with this small island nation, only 90 miles south of the Florida Keys. But because of the country's isolation, the island and its people have remained a mystery. This revised edition of Cuba takes listeners through the country's storied history, its people, and what the future holds for this island nation.

Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighborhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana's residents - old communist ladies, their skeptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors - go about their daily lives.

A fly-on-the-wall narrative of the Oval Office in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, using JFK’s secret White House tapes. On October 28, 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. Popular history has marked that day as the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a seminal moment in American history. As President Kennedy’s secretly recorded White House tapes now reveal, the reality was not so simple.

在超级大国的扩张野心与加勒比海岛国的生存抗争之间，一场横跨数百年的地缘政治博弈彻底重塑了现代世界格局。对于渴望在碎片化时代看清国际政治底层逻辑的听众而言，这段充满紧张冲突与权力角逐的历史将带来极具震...

عش أجواء الحرب الباردة المشحونة حين وقفت البشرية على حافة الهاوية النووية طوال ثلاثة عشر يومًا حبست أنفاس العالم. يقدم هذا السرد التاريخي المشوق رحلة معرفية...

当人类命运在核战争边缘摇摇欲坠，短短十三天的大国极限博弈与情报暗战，写就了冷战历史上最惊心动魄的生存危机。在缺乏全貌的迷雾中，华盛顿与莫斯科的每一次决策都可能触发末日按钮。无论你是利用通勤的碎片时间...

Ervaar hoe een klein Caribisch eiland het zenuwcentrum van de Koude Oorlog en een wereldwijde revolutie werd. Deze krachtige historische non-fictie neemt je mee van bruisende suikerplantages naar de mondiale nucleaire dreiging. Ideaal om je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer te transformeren in een...

La diplomazia e il terrore atomico si scontrano in una corsa contro il tempo che ha definito la Guerra Fredda. Perfetto per trasformare il tragitto quotidiano in un'immersione nella grande storia politica, questo racconto serrato svela i retroscena della crisi internazionale più drammatica del...

تتبع صراع النفوذ والهيمنة في سرد تاريخي سياسي يوثق كيف تحولت جزيرة كاريبية إلى ساحة عالمية للثورة والإمبراطورية. يأخذك هذا العمل المليء بالتحولات الدرامية في...

Mergulhe no epicentro da geopolítica onde a revolução cubana desafia o imperialismo em uma disputa de poder. Ideal para transformar seu trajeto diário em uma imersão analítica, o relato captura a tensão constante entre uma superpotência global e uma nação determinada a forjar seu...

Reviva o suspense político real da Guerra Fria quando uma ameaça nuclear colocou o destino da humanidade em jogo. Ideal para transformar seu trajeto diário em uma imersão histórica tensa, este relato reconstrói a escalada bélica de outubro de 1962. Sinta a urgência dos bastidores do...

L'epica lotta per la sovranità contro le ingerenze imperiali esplode in un avvincente saggio storico e geopolitico. Attraverso una narrazione drammatica e immersiva, vivrai in prima persona le tensioni che hanno trasformato un'isola caraibica nell'epicentro della Guerra Fredda. Ideale per...

カリブ海の真珠を襲った荒々しい海賊、莫大な砂糖の富、そして情熱的な革命のドラマをたどり、激動の500年を追体験する没入型歴史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤電車や休日のリラックスタイムに耳を傾ければ、いつも...

カリブ海の小さな島で蜂起した奴隷たちが、無敵を誇ったナポレオン軍を打ち破り、世界初の黒人共和国を建国した壮絶な独立と自由への歴史ドラマ。静かな没入感とともに約二時間で駆け抜けるこの驚嘆の物語は、毎日...

大国に翻弄されながらも革命の火を燃やし続けたカリブ海の小国。甘美な砂糖と帝国主義の野望が交差する500年の壮大なラテンアメリカ史が、あなたの知的好奇心を強烈に刺激します。日々の通勤電車や休日の集中タイム...

世界有数のフランス帝国に立ち向かい、自らの手で自由と独立を勝ち取った奴隷たちの壮絶な革命史が、ここによみがえる。毎日の通勤時間や深く思考に浸りたい夜のひとときに、カリブ海で巻き起こった抑圧と解放のド...

Vive la revolución épica donde los esclavizados aplastaron a Napoleón y forjaron la primera república negra libre. Esta narración histórica inmersiva te transporta al corazón del Caribe colonial para presenciar el colapso del sistema de opresión más brutal del mundo. Es el relato...

Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. Based on handwritten and printed sources in Spanish, English, and French, this book tells the story of Cartagena's multinational and multicultural seafarers, revealing the Trans-Atlantic and maritime dimensions of South American independence.

Para Enrique Krauze, la crítica al poder es un compromiso de larga data que se conecta con la aspiración de que logremos pasar de una presidencia imperial a una institucional. Al final, estas páginas vislumbran la posibilidad de reconstruir la concordia perdida en México, cuyo camino está en la convergencia entre los partidos de oposición y una valiente y activa sociedad civil.

The Spanish-American War really only lasted about ten weeks (the buildup and decision to go to war took longer than the war itself), but a peace treaty was not signed until December of 1898. This was an event that was the tipping point for the end of the Spanish Empire and the rise of the US as a formidable player on the world stage. Not all Americans were happy with the change, with famous Americans like Mark Twain speaking out about the US occupation of the lands that it was meant to save.