LEADER 04076nam 2200577 450 001 9910458615903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4422-3100-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001330005 035 $a(EBL)1742616 035 $a(OCoLC)884016208 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001267549 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12508697 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001267549 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11264158 035 $a(PQKB)10944533 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1742616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1742616 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10896743 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL627516 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001330005 100 $a20140730h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA contemporary Cuba reader $ethe revolution under Rau?l Castro /$fedited by Philip Brenner [and three others] 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cRowman & Littlefield,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (489 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4422-3099-1 311 $a1-4422-3098-3 327 $aContents; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: History as Prologue: Cuba before 2006; I: Politics; 1 Continuity and Change in Cuba at Fifty; 2 Cuba's New Socialism; 3 After Fidel; 4 The Revolutionary Armed Forces; 5 The Collapse of Socialism Is beyond the Present Horizon; 6 Religion and Civil Society in Cuba, 1959-2013; 7 From Cyberspace to Public Space?; 8 The Promise Besieged; II: Economics; 9 Challenges of Economic Restructuring in Cuba; 10 Updating the Cuban Economic Model; 11 Cuba's Entrepreneurs; 12 Cuban Agriculture and the Current Process of Economic Transformation 327 $a13 The New Cuban Economy14 The Political Economy of Leisure; 15 Remittance Recipients and the Present and Future of Microentrepreneurship Activities in Cuba; 16 Poverty and Vulnerability in Cuba Today; 17 Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba; III: Foreign Policy; 18 Rau?lista Foreign Policy; 19 China and the Future of Cuba; 20 Cuban-Latin American and Caribbean Relations; 21 Cuban Medical Internationalism under Rau?l Castro; 22 Cuban Public Diplomacy; 23 The Cuban Five and the U.S. War against Terror; 24 Untying the Knot; 25 Emigration and U.S.-Cuba Bilateral Relations 327 $a26 Dialogues within and between Cuba and Its Diaspora27 Cuba, a Country with a Broken Heart; IV: Culture; 28 Living and Creating in Cuba; 29 A Black Woman from Cuba, That's All; 30 Two Songs; 31 Culture for the Masses?; 32 Nationhood and Identity in Contemporary Cuban Art; 33 Questioning Authority; 34 Zooming In; 35 Recovering from Crisis?; 36 Cuban Sport Development; V: Social Change; 37 Cuban Youth; 38 Notes on the Race Question in Cuba Today; 39 Memorable Characters of Cuba; 40 Cuba's Recent Embrace of Agroecology; 41 The Cuban Health System; 42 Fifty Years Later 327 $a43 Cuban Educational Reform during the "Special Period"44 The Changing Dynamics of Sexuality; 45 Transcript of Television Interview with Mariela Castro; 46 Surfing Revolico.com; Cuba Chronology; Index; About the Editors and Contributors 330 $aThis completely revised and updated edition focuses on Cuba since Rau?l Castro took over the country's leadership in 2006. A Contemporary Cuba Reader brings together the best recent scholarship and writing on Cuban politics, economics, foreign relations, society, and culture in present-day Cuba. Ideally suited for students and general readers seeking to understand this still-contentious and controversial island, the book includes a substantive introduction setting the historical context, as well as part introductions and a chronology. 607 $aCuba$xHistory$y1990- 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a972.9107 702 $aBrenner$b Philip 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458615903321 996 $aA contemporary Cuba reader$91976198 997 $aUNINA