Bartolomé de Las Casas: An Interpretation of His Life and Writings

Hanke, Lewis, Bartolomé de Las Casas: An Interpretation of His Life and Writings, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1951. (cover destroyed by termites)

Contents:

Preface.

Chapter I – The Struggle for Justice in the Spanish Conquest of America.
The unique quality of Spanish colonization; Interpretations of the struggle for justice; The climate of opinion in sixteenth century Spain; The nature of the Indians; The sermons of Montesinos; The colonization attempts in Venezuela; Peaceful preaching in Guatemala; The passage and revocation of the New Laws.

Chapter II – Bartolomé de las Casas: Political Theorist and Historian.
What made Spanish domination in America legitimate?; The political theories of Las Casas; Free speech in America; Just and unjust titles to the New World; Influence of the dispute; Why Las Casas wrote history; The controversy concerning his historical work; His virtues and defects as historian; The publication of the History of the Indies; The ,,destruction of the Indies.

Chapter III – Bartolomé de las Casas: Anthropologist.
Was Las Casas an anthropologist?; The Apologetic History; What Las Casas tried to prove; Aristotle and America; Judgment on the anthropological work of Las Casas.

Chapter IV – Conclusion..

Bosquejo Histórico De Las Letras Cubanas

Portuondo, José Antonio, Bosquejo Histórico De Las Letras Cubanas, La Habana: Editora del Ministerio de Educación, 1962.

Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística:

Al triunfo de la Revolución en 1959, [José Antonio Portuondo] se reincorporó al claustro de profesores de la Universidad de Oriente. En 1960 fue designado Embajador de Cuba en México por el Gobierno revolucionario, cargo que ocupó hasta 1962. En ese período integró la delegación cubana a la VI y VII Reuniones de consulta de Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de la Organización de Est ados Americanos, en San José, Costa Rica (1960) y a la Primera Conferencia Cumbre de Países No Alineados, en Belgrado (1961). Formó parte asimismo de la delegación que en 1961 visitó de manera oficial Checoslovaquia, URSS y China, presidida por el doctor Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado y fue delegado al Primer Congreso de la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, en el que resultó electo vicepresidente de esa Institución. Recopiló y prologó ese año una edición de El pensamiento vivo de Maceo. En 1962 asumió la rectoría de la Universidad de Oriente.

Estudios sobre Fray Bartolomé de las Casas y sobre la Lucha por la Justicia en la Conquista Española de América

Hanke, Lewis, Estudios sobre fray Bartolomé de las Casas y sobre la lucha por la justicia en la conquista española de América, Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 1968.

De la portada del libro:

Estudios sobre fray Bartolomé de las Casas y sobre la lucha por la justicia en la conquista española de América no nos planteará de nuevo la alternativa de las leyendas “negra” y “dorada”, sino, por el contrario, nos dará una imagen más exacta acerca del verdadero significado de la conquista española; además, Lewis Hanke ha querido llevar más allá de lo ordinario esta magnífica recopilación de sus ensayos sobre el “apóstol de los indios”, logrando matices insospechados de la vida de este: ¿fue Las Casas un erudito?, ¿precursor de la antropología?, ¿existencialista? Estas y muchas otras interrogantes serán debidamente clarificadas con la lectura de estas páginas, inmersas en la polémica definidora, notable característica de la moderna metodología histórica.

Política y Gobierno en la República Dominicana 1930 - 1966

Wiarda, Howard J., Política y Gobierno en la República Dominicana 1930 - 1966, (edición En Inglés Y Español), Santiago, República Dominicana: Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 1968.

De la introducción:

Desde el punto de vista de su organización, la bibliografía se ha dividido en dos grandes partes, una que cubre el período de Trujillo y la otra el posterior a Trujillo; a su vez estas dos grandes secciones se han subdividido en listas de artículos, libros y fuentes inéditas. Los periódicos y revistas se encuentran juntos bajo un encabezamiento aparte, ya que en su mayor parte continuaron saliendo desde el periodo de Trujillo hasta el posterior a este. La fecha límite de 1930 ha sido escogida no solamente por razones de conveniencia, sino porque esta fecha parece representar, en muchos sentidos, un cambio en el curso de la historia dominicana.

Cuba Paraíso Perdido?

Restrepo, Camilo, Cuba Paraíso Perdido?, Medellín: Editorial Bedout, 1970.

De la introducción:

El autor de este libro, Camilo Restrepo, ex director ejecutivo de la revista “Cromos” y actualmente columnista de “El Tiempo”, fue designado presidente de la delegación colombiana al VI campeonato mundial de ajedrez por equipos que se llevo a cabo en la Habana. Por un lapso de algo más de un mes, el autor tuvo oportunidad de recorrer citada ciudad y sus alrededores.

Caribbean Integration: Papers on Social, Political, and Economic Integration

Lewis, Sybil & Thomas G. Mathews, Eds., Caribbean Integration: Papers on Social, Political, and Economic Integration, {Third Caribbean Scholars' Conference, Georgetown, Guyana, April 4 - 9, 1966}, Rio Piedras: Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1967. [6 additional copies in box 21]

Contents:

Foreword, by Thomas G. Mathews

Program of the Conference

List of the Participants

Social Science Ideology and the Politics of National Integration, by Robert W. Anderson.

Fiscal Aspects of Economic Integration with Special Reference to Selected Caribbean Countries, by Fuat M. Andic.

Current Development Strategy and Economic Integration in the Caribbean, by Lloyd Best.

Planning and the Price Mechanism in the Context of Caribbean Economic Integration, by William G. Demas.

Regional Integration vs Company Integration in the Utilization of Caribbean Bauxite, by Norman P. Girvan.

Integration, Domination and the Small State System: the Caribbean, by Vaughan Lewis and Archie W. Singham.

Caribbean Nationhood in Anthropological Perspective, by Sydney W. Mintz.

The Caribbean: Geopolitics and Geo-history, by Richard Morse.

La integración política en Puerto Rico, by Milton Pabón.

La Jueyera: Enajenación y Pseudo Conflicto, by Eduardo Seda Bonilla.

Integration and Developing Countries: Some Thoughts on East Africa and Central America, by Aaron Segal.

Social Stratification, Culturral Pluralism and Integration in West Indian Societies, by Raymond T. Smith.

La Economía Cubana Entre las Dos Isabeles: 1492-1832

Ely, Roland T., La economía cubana entre las dos Isabeles: 1492-1832, Bogotá: Aedita Editores, 1962.

Del Prefacio, escrito por Julio Le Riverend:

Este libro que, en verdad, forma parte de otro, de muy copiosa información sobre la industria y el comercio azucareros de Cuba en el Siglo XIX, constituye un buen recuento de la economía cubana, particularmente desde 1776 hasta 1832. Lo que equivale decir: en el momento revelador de las enormes posibilidades de riqueza del país.

Índice:

Prefacio

Acerca del Autor

Capítulo I
Desde el Descubrimiento hasta 1776.

Capítulo II
Factores que ayudaron al emerger de Cuba como Reina del Caribe
1) La independencia de los Estados Unidos
2) Los funcionarios coloniales
3) La destrucción de Santo Domingo

Capítulo III
Los problemas de la agricultura cubana: su solución parcial y sus efectos sociales

Bibliografía

Boom, Doom, and Gloom over the Oceans: The Economic Zone, the Developing Nations, and the Conference on the Law of the Sea

Borgese, Elisabeth Mann, Boom, Doom, and Gloom over the Oceans: The Economic Zone, the Developing Nations, and the Conference on the Law of the Sea, reprinted from The San Diego Law Review, Vol. 11, Num. 3, May, 1974.

Available online.

1916: Ocupación Yanqui de la República Dominicana

Álvarez Quiñones, Roberto, 1916: Ocupación Yanqui de la República Dominicana, La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1978.

The United States occupation of the Dominican Republic occurred from 1916 to 1924. It was one of the many interventions in Latin America undertaken by American military forces. On May 13, 1916,[1] Rear Admiral William B. Caperton forced the Dominican Republic's Secretary of War Desiderio Arias, who had seized power from Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra, to leave Santo Domingo by threatening the city with naval bombardment.

Roberto Alvarez Quiñones is a veteran journalist and economic analyst who worked for 20 years in Granma, the official organ of the Communist Party of Cuba. He worked as an editor and columnist for the daily La Opinión in Los Angeles, from 1996-2008. Former university professor and former economic analyst for U.S. Hispanic TV.

The Journal of the College of the Virgin Islands

Dookhan, Isaac, (Editor), The Journal of the College of the Virgin Islands, No. 3, May 1977.

Contents:

Consciousness in the Novels of Wright Morris: An Introduction, by Lincoln Westdal.

Evaluation as a Process: Some Associated Concepts and Their Applications to Health Care Delivery, by Maxine A. Núñez.

The Issue of Dependence with Reference to Latin America and the Caribbean, by Ronald Parris.

Dental Histology of the Permian Reptile Dictybolos Tener Olson, by William MacLean.

Perceptions of Institutionalized Aging in the United States Virgin Islands, by Maureen McCarthy.

Report of the Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo

Wade, Benjamin Franklin; White, Andrew Dickson; Howe, Samuel Gridley, (Commissioners), Dominican Republic. Report of the Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo, with the introductory message of the President, special reports ... state papers furnished by the Dominican government, and the statements of over seventy witnesses, Washington: GPO, 1871.

Available online.

Note by Dale:

The book lacks the front cover and is stamped as “Property of the The Supreme Council, 33°, Southern Jurisdiction”, the first Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The book also has a hand written gift dedication in Spanish to who appears as a “Calesby Jones”, from who appears as a A. or H. “Faubuión” and dated December 15, 1966.

The Annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during later Reconstruction, initiated by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex “Santo Domingo” (as the Dominican Republic was then commonly known) as a U.S. territory, with the promise of eventual statehood. President Grant believed that that the annexed territory (on the island of Hispaniola) would serve as a safe haven for African Americans from the Southern United States, who were suffering violent persecution by the Ku Klux Klan. Grant also believed that the acquisition of Santo Domingo would help bring about the end of slavery in those parts of the Americas that still practised it, such as Brazil. A further motive was Dominican agricultural and mineral resources would benefit the U.S. economy. A U.S. naval port in the Dominican Republic would also serve as protection for a projected canal across the Isthmus of Darien.

Contemporary International Relations of the Caribbean

Ince,Basil A. (Ed.), Contemporary International Relations of the Caribbean, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago: Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, 1979.(signed by the author for Dr. Mathews)

Reviewed in Caribbean Quarterly © 1979.

Reviewed in International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) © 1980.

Reviewed in Foreign Affairs.

Contents:

PART I – THE CARIBBEAN AND THE THIRD WORLD:

The Commonwealth Caribbean Policy of Non-Alignment, by Vaughan A. Lewis.
Caribbean Economic Development and Third World Trade, by Adlith Brown.
The Commonwealth Caribbean and Africa: Aspects of Third World Racial Interactions, Linkages and Challenges, by Locksley Edmondson and Peter Phillips.
Commonwealth Caribbean – Latin American Relations: Emerging Patterns of Co-operation and Conflict, by Anthony T. Bryan.
The International Relations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico with special reference to the Caribbean and Latin America, by Angel Calderon Cruz.
Epilogue.

PART II: METROPOLITAN TIES AND INFLUENCES

Towards Understanding the Dynamics of Nationalization in the Caribbean, by Maurice Odle.
Building a Nation: The Post-Independence Political Experience in Guyana, by Maurice St. Pierre.
External Dependence and National Dependence – A Case Study of the Bahamas, by Ramesh Ramsaran.

PART III: POLITICAL PROCESSES AND FOREIGN POLICY

Race and Ideology in the Foreign Relations of Independent Guyana: The Case of the East Indians, by Basil A. Ince.
From Populist Nationalism to Corporate Nationalism – Trinidad and Tobago A Brief Overview, by Carl Parris.
Non-Salience of Foreign Policy Issues in Trinidad and Tobago Elections: A Note, by Basil A. Ince.
The Impact of Economic Factors on the Foreign Policy of Barbados, by George L. Reid.

PART IV: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION

Neo-Colonialism and Caribbean Integration, by Clive Thomas.
Trade Prospects and Foreign Exchange Needs of Three Non-Oil Producing Commonwealth Caribbean Countries by Anthony Gonzales.
Some Economic Aspects of Departmentalization in the French West Indies, by Jean Crusol.
The Economic Development of Small Countries: A Managerial Approach, by Courtenay Blackman.

The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, the West Indies

Merrill, Gordon C., The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, the West Indies, Mexico City, México: Instituto Pan Americano de Geografía e Historia, 1958.

From the author’s foreword:

This article in its original form was submitted in 1956 to the University of California at Berkeley as a doctoral dissertation in geography. My aim has been to examine the geography of the past in St. Kitts and Nevis, in order to understand more fully the evolution of the cultural landscape of these islands during the more than three centuries since the beginning of European settlement. Colonial life held much in common in all the islands of the British West Indies, and more particularly during the period before emancipation. I present my work as a contribution to our knowledge of the cultural history of the West Indies.

The "Redlegs" of Barbados, Their Origins and History

Sheppard, Jill, The "Redlegs" of Barbados, their origins and history. Millwood, New York: KTO Press, 1977.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1979.

See The Poor Whites of Barbados, by Thomas J. Keagy.

See also A Historical Sketch of the Poor Whites of Barbados: From Indentured Servants to "Redlegs" in Caribbean Studies.

Redlegs is a term used to refer to the class of poor whites that live on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands. Their forebears came from Ireland, Scotland and the West of England.[1] Many of their ancestors were transported by Oliver Cromwell.[2] Others had originally arrived on Barbados in the early to mid 17th century as slaves or indentured servants. Small groups of Germans and Portuguese were also imported as plantation labourers. Many were described as "white slaves".[citation needed] According to folk etymology, the name is derived from the effects of the tropical sun on their fair-skinned legs. However, the term "Redlegs" and its variants were in use for Irish soldiers of the same sort as those later transported to Barbados, and the variant "Red-shankes" is recorded as early as the 16th century by Edmund Spenser in his dialogue on the current condition of Ireland.

The Face of the Sun Kingdoms: The Indians of Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru, and Their Ancient Lands

Bunzl, George, (photographer) The Face of the Sun Kingdoms: The Indians of Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru, and Their Ancient Lands, South Brunswick, New York: A. S. Barnes, 1969.

See Inventory of the George Bunzl Photograph Collection, 1951-1976.

The Green Continent: A Comprehensive View of Latin America by its Leading Writers

Arciniegas, German, The Green Continent: a comprehensive view of Latin America by its leading writers, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944

Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1945.

Reviewed in The Americas © 1944.

Reviewed in Time Magazine.

Contents:

Introduction: Our Little Big World.

PART I: Landscape and Man

The Pampas. Life in the Argentine Republic. From “Facundo” by Domingo F. Sarmiento. Translated from the Spanish by Mrs. Horace Mann.
The Jungle. The Vortex. From “La Vorágine” by José Eustasio Rivera. Translated from the Spanish by Earle K. James.
The Uplands. The Hungry Dogs. From “Los Perros Hambrientos” by Ciro Alegría.
The Land of Brazil. Canaan. From Canaan by Graça Aranha. Translated from the Portuguese by Mariano Joaquin Llorente.
The Valley of Mexico. Silhouette of the Mexican Indian Woman. By Gabriela Mistral.
The Mountains. Coffee: Its Life Story. From “La Tempestad” by Flavio Herrera.
The Caribbean Sea. Castaways of the Earth. From “Náufragos de la tierra” by Gregorio Castañeda Aragón.
The Lakes of the South. The Lakes of the South. By Victoria Ocampo.
The Oceans of Chile. Captain Oyarzo. From “Chilenos del Mar” by Mariano Latorre.
Our Rivers. The Waterfalls of South America. From “La Raza Cósmica” by José Vasconcelos.

PART II: The March of Time

16th Century: The Conquest. Caxamarca. From "Atahuallpa" by Benjamín Carrión.
17th Century: The Colony. St. Rose of Lima. From "Tesoros Verdaderos de las Indias" by Juan de Meléndez.
18th Century: The Revolution. Rebellion and Death of Tupac-Amaru. From various contemporary reports.
19th Century: Anarchy and Dictatorship. Melgarejo. From "Los Caudillos Bárbaros" by Alcides Arguedas.
20th Century: America Today and Tomorrow. Thoughts of the American Mind. By Alfonso Reyes. The Transformation of America in Our Time. By Sanín Cano.

PART III: Bronzes and Marbles

Simón Bolívar. Bolívar's First Campaign. From "Bolívar y la Emancipación de las Colonias Españolas" by Jules Mancini.
José de San Martín. The Army of the Andes. From "El Santo de la Espada" by Ricardo Rojas.
Dom Pedro. History of the Reign of Dom Pedro II. From "Historia de Dom Pedro II" by Heitor Lyra.
Francisco Miranda. Don Francisco Miranda in Russia. From "Aventura y Tragedia de Don Francisco Miranda" by José Nucete-Sardi.
José Martí. Martí in Prison. From "Martí El Apostol" by Jorge Mañach.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Sarmiento the Educator. From "Historia de Sarmiento" by Leopoldo Lugones.
Juan Montalvo. Montalvo. From "Cinco Ensayos" by José Enrique Rodó.

PART IV: The Cities

Rio de Janeiro. Sun, Sea, and Samba. By Enrico Verissimo.
Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires. By Julio Rinaldini.
The City of Mexico. The Colonial City. From "Visionario de la Nueva España" by Genaro Estrada.
Lima. Lima, Past and Present. From "Pequeña Antología" by Raúl Porras Barrenechea.
Cartagena. Cartagena. From "Ciudades de Colombia" by Armando Solano

PART V: The Color of Life

The Sertões. Description of Antonio Conselheiro. From "Os Sertões" by Euclydes da Cunha.
Indian and White Man. Parallel 53 South. From "Paralelo 53 Sur" by Juan Marín.
Poor Negro. Poor Nigger. From "El Pobre Negro" by Rómulo Gallegos.
The Chaco War. The Well. From "Sangre de Mestizos" by Augusto Céspedes.
The Guarany World. Our Unsung Heroes. From "Libro de los Heroes" by Juan O'Leary.
The Guerrillero. Pancho Villa on the Cross. From "El Aguila y la Serpiente" by Martín Luis Guzmán.

El Barracón: Esclavitud y Capitalismo en Cuba

Pérez de La Riva, Juan, El barracón: esclavitud y capitalismo en Cuba, Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 1978.

Juan Pérez de la Riva y Pons (París, 1913-1976) Historiador cubano, perteneciente a una familia de terratenientes isleños.
(…)
El historiador cubano Ramón de Armas destacó de la obra de Pérez de la Riva haber innovado en la metodología histórica al introducir el estudio de las cifras económicas en el análisis histórico. En sus análisis históricos, interrelacionó la sociedad, con el hombre y la naturaleza, a efectos de inferir la evolución de la población.

Índice:

Prólogo

1. El barracón de ingenio en la época esclavista
La vivienda del esclavo cubano en la legislación
Los orígenes del barracón
El barracón – nave cubano
Las causas del barracón
El barracón de patio
La vida en el barracón
conclusión

2. Notas sobre las monedas utilizadas en la costa de África durante el siglo XVIII
El cauri
El paquete
La barra
La pieza
La onza
Otras monedas usadas en la costa de Guinea

3. Demografía de los culíes. Chinos en Cuba (1853 – 1874)
¿Cuantos culíes chinos vinieron a Cuba?
¿Cuantos chinos vivieron a un tiempo en Cuba?
Mortalidad y esperanza de vida de los culíes
Los suicidios
Estructura de una población chino – cubana
Composición de la fuerza de trabajo china
El “marronaje”
Concentración de la esclavitud china
Distribución geográfica de la inmigración china en Cuba
Apéndice: Producción de azúcar e inmigración asiática

4. Aspectos económicos del tráfico de culíes. Chinos a Cuba (1853 – 1874)
La organización financiera de los “monzones”
Asentistas y promotores
Los agentes
Las utilidades de la trata amarilla
Importancia del culí
Condiciones de venta del culí en La Habana

5. La situación legal del culí en Cuba
La primeras contratas
El reglamento de 1849
Los castigos corporales y la opinión contemporánea
La nuevas contratas
El Real Decreto de 1854
Los primeros chinos que se liberaron
Nueva legislación sobre culíes: el Real Decreto de 1860
Modificaciones en las contratas
Paralelo entre las contratas cubanas y las inglesas de Jamaica
El culí chino, “hombre libre”

6. Tres siglos de historia de un latifundio cubano: Puercos Gordos y El Salado
De la merced del Cabildo a la granja del pueblo, 1657 – 1959
La merced del Cabildo
Hombres y paisajes del siglo XVII
Un latifundio de mano muerta
La desamortización
El vínculo de Fernandina
Comunicaciones y producción: nuevas formas de asentamiento durante el siglo XVIII y primera mitad del XIX
El final del vínculo de Fernandina
El latifundio de Puercos Gordos se convierte en central azucarera yanqui
El latifundio se hace cubano, pero la plantación subsiste
La dinastía Ferro orienta y controla la nueva plantación
La herencia de antaño
Cosecha de hogaño

7. Una isla con dos historias
Los cuatro factores del desarrollo
La trata y las consecuencias
Formula para extraer riquezas
La sacarocracia contó las onzas
El producto y el reparto
Cuba A y Cuba B
Una economía de autoconsumo
La vaca lechera de España
Camagüey y el anexionismo
Lo que no es Miguel Aldama
Los esclavos entretanto

Ensayos Históricos

Franco, José Luciano, Ensayos Históricos, La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1974.

Del prólogo de Julio Le Riverend:

Los lectores están en presencia de una colección de ensayos y artículos en los cuales la característica fundamental es la preocupación por integrar el relato de lo cubano al panorama más amplio del mundo y, en su caso, de los países que circundan a nuestra patria. Es esta una característica de la obra historiográfica de José Luciano Franco, que, a lo largo de una laboriosa existencia, se acentua como un ejemplo de consecuente actitud contra él, digamos provincialismo, que aqueja a nuestra historiografía. Ciertamente, no hemos podido romper con la insularidad de nuestra ciencia histórica. Si en otros tiempos ello reflejaba la poquedad neocolonialista, hoy debe reflejar la vastedad de nuestras relaciones con el mundo.

Índice:

Esquemas de los movimientos populares de liberación nacional (1511 – 1868)

Piratas, corsarios, filibusteros y contrabandistas siglos XVIII y XIX

La conspiración de Morales

Comercio clandestino de esclavos en el siglo XIX

La conspiración de Aponte, 1812

La conjura de los negreros

La Revolución Cubana en la prensa norteamericana

Riesgos y desventuras tricontinentales de José Maceo

Comercio Clandestino de Esclavos

Franco, José Luciano, Comercio Clandestino de Esclavos, Ciudad de La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1980.

De la cubierta:

En Comercio clandestino de esclavos el profesor José Luciano Franco aborda, con precisión científica, la historia del tráfico de esclavos desde sus inicios – finales del siglo XVI – y el desarrollo de tan abominable comercio durante los siglos XVII y XVIII. “Las hostilidades entre las grandes potencias por monopolizar las fuentes productoras de materias primas, la rivalidad creciente anglo-franco-norteamericano por el control de la navegación comercial, amén de las revoluciones y guerras, iban también a influir, de manera decisiva, en las prolongadas crisis por las cuales atravesó la trata negrera en la etapa inicial del proceso histórico, que ha de dar paso, en el resto del siglo XIX, a la batalla encarnizada del capitalismo y el proletariado.” Esta obra constituye, por su valor temático y acuciosidad investigativa del autor, una fuente de obligada consulta para estudiantes e investigadores del periodo colonial cubano.

The Economic Transformation of Cuba: A First-Hand Account

Boorstein, Edward, The Economic Transformation of Cuba: A First-Hand Account, New York & London: Monthly Review Press, 1968.(book is damaged by termites and fungus but readable)

Reviewed in International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) © 1970.

Reviewed in The Economic Journal © 1968.

From the book inner sleeve:

Edward Boorstein is an American economist who arrived in Cuba in May, 1960, and for the next three years and a half worked in the top planning agencies of the Revolutionary Government. He has written a remarkable account of the problems, successes, and failures he witnessed. It is straight-forward, non-technical, fascinating, and nothing else like it exists in the entire literature on economic planning.

Azúcar y Población en las Antillas

Guerra, Ramiro, Azúcar y Población en las Antillas, La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1976.

English versions reviewed in Caribbean Studies © 1967, The Journal of Negro History © 1964, and in The Journal of Economic History / Volume 25 / Issue 01 / March 1965, pp 149-150.

Quinta edición reseñada en Desarrollo Económico © 1973.

Ramiro Guerra y Sánchez(Batabanó, La Habana, Cuba, 31 de enero de 1880 – Ciudad de La Habana, 29 de octubre de 1970) fue un historiador, economista y pedagogo cubano.
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En 1933, después de la caída de Machado, se traslada a Nueva York y después a Gainesville, Florida, donde culmina su obra La expansión territorial de los Estados Unidos a expensas de España y de los países hispanoamericanos. Más tarde regresa a Cuba y en 1939 se desempeña como asesor técnico de la delegación cubana a la primera reunión de consulta de cancilleres de las Repúblicas americanas efectuada en Panamá.
Asimismo, representó a Cuba en los siguientes eventos:
Conferencia Marítima Interamericana, Washington, EE. UU. (1940).
V Congreso Científico Interamericano, Washington, EE. UU. (1942).
Conferencia Sobre Alimentación y Agricultura de las Naciones Unidas y Asociadas, Virginia, EE. UU. (1943).
Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas y Asociadas, San Francisco, EE. UU. (1944).
Conferencia Monetaria Internacional de las Naciones Unidas, Breton Woods, New Hampshire, EE. UU. (1944).
Consejo Económico y Social de las Naciones Unidas (1946).

The American Tropics

Corlett, William Thomas, The American Tropics, Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Co., 1908.(signed by the author and dated January 8, 1910)

Available online.

William Thomas Corlett was born in Orange, Ohio and educated at Oberlin College from 1870 to 1873. He studied medicine at the medical department of the University of Wooster (forerunner of the College of Wooster), graduating in 1877. After teaching at Wooster for two years he traveled to London and Paris to study skin diseases and later become a Fellow of the London Royal College of Physicians. Corlett returned to Cleveland in 1882 and was appointed lecturer, then Professor of Skin and Genitourinary Diseases at Wooster in 1884.

Note from Dale - I can only speculate that my father may have obtained this book from someone he knew or studied with in Oberlin College.

The United States and Santo Domingo, 1789-1866

Treudley, Mary, The United States and Santo Domingo, 1789-1866, reprinted from The Journal of Race Development, Volume 7.

From the author’s Introduction:

It is my purpose to chronicle the interrelations between the histories of the United States and Santo Domingo in the period from 1789 to 1866. An introductory chapter on trade relations existing between the two countries during the eighteenth century furnishes the economic background for the political connections which had their beginning as the French Revolution spread through the French colonial possessions. The period dealt with divides into two main parts. The first, from 1789 to 1803, is the period in which the French still retained their hold upon the island, the richest of all their colonies. The second, from 1803 to 1866, covers the first half of the history of Haitian independence and ends with the granting of the long- sought and grudgingly-given recognition of that independence by the United States.

Available online here and here.

Biografía de un Cimarrón

Barnet, Miguel, Biografía de un Cimarrón, Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina, 1977.

See also "Biografía de un cimarrón" and the Novel of the Cuban Revolution .

Miguel Angel Barnet Lanza (born January 28, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz, the pioneer of Cuban anthropology, whose studies of Afro-Cuban cultures influenced many of the themes, both literary and scholarly, of Barnet.

Contracanto a Walt Whitman (Canto a Nosotros Mismos)

Mir, Pedro, Contracanto a Walt Whitman (Canto a Nosotros Mismos), Santo Domingo: Editora Taller, 1976.

Disponible en linea.

Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry. His father, a Cuban mechanical engineer, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in the early years of the Twentieth Century to be hired as Chief of Engineers of the Cristóbal Colón Sugar Refinery. Soon he married a young Puerto Rican girl and had a son whom he named Pedro Julio. Pedro Julio Mir spent his youth in the sugar refinery, which was located near the city of San Pedro de Macorís. His mother died prematurely, in 1917, which impressed upon him a profound sense of loss which he would later consider the root of his poetical vocation. (…)In 1952, Mir published in Guatemala his Contracanto a Walt Whitman (canto a nosotros mismos) (Countersong to Walt Whitman (Song of Ourselves)), considered one of his most accomplished works. (Its title references Whitman's "Song of Myself".) Translated to many languages, the poem has been the subject of many studies in the United States and other countries.

The Dominican Intervention

Lowenthal, Abraham F., The Dominican Intervention, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Glimpse available at Questia.

Reviewed in The American Political Science Review © 1975.

Included in The Dominican Intervention of 1965: Recent Interpretations.

See also The United States and the Dominican Republic to 1965: Background to Intervention, by Abraham Lowenthal.

Georgetown Journal: A Caribbean Writer's Journey from London via Port of Spain to Georgetown, Guyana, 1970

Salkey, Andrew, Georgetown Journal: A Caribbean Writer's Journey from London via Port of Spain to Georgetown, Guyana, 1970, London: New Beacon Books, Ltd., 1972.

See also Havana Journal.

Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 - 28 April 1995) was a novelist, poet, freelance writer and journalist of Jamaican and Haitian origin. Salkey was born in Panama but was raised in Jamaica. He died in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he had been teaching.

Barbados & the Confederation Question, 1871-1885

Hamilton, Bruce, Barbados & the Confederation Question, 1871-1885, London: Published by the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments & Administrations, 1956.

Available online.

Viaje a la Isla de Puerto Rico en el año 1797...

Ledru, Andrés Pedro, Viaje a la Isla de Puerto Rico en el año 1797: ejecutado por una comisión de sabios franceses, de orden de su gobierno bajo la dirección del capitán Nicolás Baudín, Puerto Rico: Imprenta Militar de J. González, 1863.

André Pierre Ledru:

Fue profesor de legislación y de física, pero su verdadera vocación fue la botánica. Poseía una biblioteca inmensa, un herbario de unas 6000 especies y un jardín botánico. Su interés por las plantas, los jardines y la herborización lo llevó en 1796 a enrolarse en La Belle Angelique, comandada por Nicolas Baudin.

Bio in English.

The Golden Antilles

Severin, Tim, The Golden Antilles, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.

Tim Severin (born 1940) is a British explorer, historian and writer. Severin is noted for his work in retracing the legendary journeys of historical figures. Severin was awarded both the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

Bonao: Una Ciudad Dominicana

Latorre, Eduardo, Julia Bisonó, Manuel José Cabral, Felpa F. de Estevez, Radhames Mejía, Bonao: Una Ciudad Dominicana. Santiago de los Caballeros: Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 1972.

Bonao es la capital de la provincia Monseñor Nouel en la República Dominicana. (…)Antes de ser elevada a la categoría de provincia, el territorio de Bonao era un municipio de la provincia La Vega, a la cual tradicionalmente estuvo atado su territorio. Se la conoce como Villa de las Hortensias, puesto que la hortensia es la flor de Bonao.

La Integración Económica del Caribe

Messina, Milton, La Integración Económica del Caribe, Santo Domingo: Centro Dominicano de Promoción de Exportaciones, 1972.

De la Introducción por el Ing. Fernando Periche:

Esta monografía ha sido preparada … a fin de contribuir a la divulgación de temas relacionados con el proceso integracionista en el área del Caribe, con especial referencia a la Asociación de Libre Comercio del Caribe (CARIFTA).

Trujillo, Bosch y Yo; el desafío actual

Espinal, Andrés Julio, Trujillo, Bosch y Yo; el desafío actual, Santo Domingo: Impresora Arte y Cine, 1971.(signed by the author for Dr. Mathews)

Andrés Julio Espinal Mota … earned a degree in economics at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and returns to the Dominican Republic in 1966. He joined the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic in April of that year, working as a Second Level Technical Assistant in the Economic Studies Department.