...Megan J. Feeney Guantánamo: An American History . By Hansen Jonathan M. . New York : Hill and Wang , 2011 . Plates. Maps. Notes. Index. xvi , 428 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Focusing our attention on 250 square miles...

...Frank Andre Guridy Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution . By Lipman Jana K. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x , 325 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Paper , $24.95...

...Louis A. Pérez, Jr. Between 1905 and 1911, further, the number of fincas in Guantánamo declined from 1,154 to 419. 39 56 La Lucha , June 9, 1910. 58 Orum, “The Politics of Color,” pp. 153, 155; Mario Riera Hernández, Cincuenta y dos años de política: Oriente , 1900 -1952...

... to the United States. Fearing another Mariel boatlift (the crisis of 1980), President Clinton’s response was to have the Cuban rafters ( balseros ) picked up by the thousands and transported to Guantánamo for detention, as in the Haitian case. Masud-Piloto denounces the inhumanity of this action...

... on Castro’s government.) Major obstacles in any reconciliation are sugar, claims against the Castro government for seizure of property, the status of Guantánamo, and, of course, the proud, defiant, and vocal exiles in the United States who dream of returning to a Cuba sans Castro. ...

... in rural Cuba, labor protests broke out in the urban centers. U.S. officials in Cuba saw in these protests sufficient peril to investment to warrant invocation of the Platt Amendment. In December 1918, marines landed in Guantánamo and were used to crush labor activities. Often the mere appearance...

... people . . . the perpetrators violating U. S. neutrality laws have not been punished . . . even now new CTA contingents are being trained (for invasion) in Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Panama’ (pp. 321, ff.). The author’s prescription of U.S.-Cuban relations is to restore Guantánamo to Cuba, the purchase...

..., was a disastrous failure that Vernon blamed on Wentworth. Much weakened by disease, the force withdrew from Cartagena to launch a new attack on Santiago de Cuba. Landing at Guantanamo Bay, Vernon rejected accurate information from army engineers that there was no suitable road to Santiago de Cuba. After losing...

... by the Canal Zone riots of January 1964. Judging from the number of items devoted to this affair, the President followed developments in Panama with intense interest. More trouble came in February as a result of Cuba’s decision to stop the water supply to the Guantanamo Naval Base. Rather than insisting...

... in the National Archives in Havana but also within provincial and municipal archives and libraries across the island. Trinidad, Cienfuegos, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo, as well as Havana, are where Pappademos’s research was dutifully carried out. Cuban specialists will appreciate the importance...

...,” presents the fate of military bases after World War II and the change in how the word “cooperation” was understood in the Cold War. Chapter 1, “The Specter of Guantanamo,” provides a historical overview of the construction of US military bases in Latin American countries, along with the issues...

... squatters to use or gain title over communal lands and the taking of the valuable Guantánamo Bay for a military base seeded discontent that later erupted in the Cuban Revolution. Similarly, the refusal of Dominicans to give up their traditional livelihoods based on “farming and . . . hunting and raising...

... 25,434 6.6 10,244 2.7 236,384 61.7 — — 21,054 5.5 Manzanillo 243,829 110,539 45.3 92,392 37.9 36,301 14.9 — — 4,597 1.9 Baracoa 157,443 — — 72,927 46.3 12,138 7.7 — — — — 72,378 46.0 Guantánamo 25,614 — — 25,614 100.0 — — — — — — — Total...

... Soriano, Oriente 500 18 Antonio López Fernández Félix Pena Baracoa, Oriente 650 19 Pepito Tey Belarmino Castilla Sagua del Tánamo, Oriente 650 20 Gustavo Fraga Demetrio Montseny Guantánamo, Oriente 250 31 Benito Juárez Luis Pérez Manzanillo, Oriente 250 32 José Antonio...

... of Santiago and Guantánamo in the prewar period. These districts are Alto Songo, Caney, Cobre, Cristo, Guantánamo, Palma Soriano, Sagua de Tánamo, San Luis, and Santiago. See Pedro Imbernó, Guía geográfica y administrativa de la isla de Cuba (Havana: Establecimiento Tipográfico La Lucha, 1891). 19...

... and 1748. 28 In July 1741, the British followed their defeat at Cartagena by seizing Cuban territory at Guantanamo Bay, which they attempted to use as a base for a proposed attack on Santiago de Cuba. Admiral Vernon believed that Torres could not forestall the British effort to seize the eastern...

...: incorporated in Pittsburgh and purchased over 135,000 acres of land around the region of Guantánamo. Cuban Realty Company: incorporated in New Jersey and purchased 25,000 acres in western Oriente. Potosí Land and Sugar Company: based in Cincinnati and acquired title to property in the region of Victoria...

... Oglesby, eds., The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 284 Graubart, Karen B. (R), 294 Graubart, Karen, and Edward Beatty, Obituary: Sabine MacCormack (1941 2012 99 Green, James N. (R), 340 Grieb, Kenneth J. (R), 164 Grossman, Richard (R), 736 Guantánamo: An American History, by Jonathan M...

..., property, and individual liberty,” 41 the Platt Amendment guaranteed American military assistance to bolster Havana if the Cuban armed force proved inadequate. The Guantánamo Naval Base added another dimension to American armed support of Havana, serving to enforce the intervention clause...

... in the early twentieth century; and, of course, the province also housed the US naval base at Guantánamo. 45 Here the issues of labor, race, nationalism, and anti-imperialism were closely intertwined, as the Comintern's envoy discovered when he traveled there in late 1933. His experience is worth lingering...