Leslie Bethell
Autor de Cuba: A Short History
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Obras de Leslie Bethell
A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge… (1998) — Editor — 25 copias
Colonial Brazil (Cambridge History of Latin America) (1987) — Editor; Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 25 copias
The Cambridge History of Latin America Volume 10. Latin America since 1930: Ideas, Culture and Society (1995) 18 copias
Historia de America Latina. 1 América latina colonial: la América precolombina y la conquista (1901) 18 copias
The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume 6, Part 1: Latin America since 1930: Economy, Society and Politics:… (1995) 15 copias
Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822-1930 (Cambridge History of Latin America) (1989) — Editor; Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 14 copias
The Cambridge History of Latin America Volume 8. Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America (1991) 13 copias
Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War: Crisis and Containment, 1944-1948 (1993) 13 copias
The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume 6, Part 2: Latin America since 1930: Economy, Society and Politics:… (1995) 10 copias
Historia da America Latina - Vol.6: A America Latina Apos 1930: Economia e Sociedade (2009) 9 copias
The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question (Cambridge Latin American… (1970) 7 copias
Latin America: Politics and Society since 1930 (The Cambridge History of Latin America) (1998) 5 copias
Historia da America Latina: A America Latina Apos 1930: Mexico, America Central, Caribe e Republicas Andinas - Vol.9 (2003) 5 copias
História da América Latina. A América Latina Após 1930. Ideias, Cultura e Sociedade - Volume VIII (Em Portuguese do… (2011) 2 copias
Historia de America Latina 4 America Latina Colonial: popolation, sociedad y cultura (2000) 2 copias
Historia de América Latina 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society - Sixth Series, Volume 01 (1991) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 6 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1937-02-12
- Género
- male
- Educación
- University of London (PhD|History)
University of London (BA|History) - Organizaciones
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Premios y honores
- National Order of Southern Cross - Commander (1994)
National Order of Southern Cross - Grand Officer (1998)
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Cuba a short history por Leslie (edited by) [cover design by Dennis M. Arnold] [Hugh Thomas Bethell, Lui
Cuba A Short History edited by Leslie Bethell consists of four long essays by four different scholarly authors. It covers the time from the Eighteenth Century to the present. I found this to be a very even handed book, neither anti Castro nor pro US. The essays did show the controls the US put on Cuba through the Platt Amendment after the 1898 Spanish American War put unfair limits on Cuba. To make Cuba safe for US business interests Cubans were limited in how they could develop and prosper in their own country. The US supported several brutal and unsavory dictators who were good for US business interests but not for Cubans own development. The final essay by Jorge Dominguez of Harvard gave a great amount of detail of the ups and downs of Cubans economy during the Castro years. Since my recent visit to Cuba I have realized I didn't know nearly enough about the island's history. This book was a good start to correcting that deficiency.… (más)
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