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.