From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492
7 The collapse of the French colony in Haiti allowed Havana’s sugar and plantation ... allowed nineteenth-century Cuba to remake itself into one of the primary producers of “fruits of the colonies.” ...
Annexation of Cuba Made Easy.
one great obstacle to the acquisition of the Island of Cuba seems to be removed; and it would not be surprising if Spain should at once conclude a treaty ceding that fine colony to the United ...
The many layers of Cuba
Africans came to Cuba as slaves, Spaniards as colonizers, the French as merchants and businessmen ... It turns out to be a quiet colonial town, five and a half hours down the desolate eight ...
How the United States Regarded the Question of Seizing Cuba in 1822--Letter from John Quincy Adams.
The French Government ... and the abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies of this hemisphere had added tenfold terrors to her occupation of Cuba, for the meditation of our Southern statesmen.
Haiti's Revolution and the United States
During that earlier conflict, several hundred soldiers from the French island colony of Saint-Domingue ... wave of Saint-Domingue immigrants who had first sought refuge in Cuba; these early "Haitian ...
Indian Wars in the Colonial Southeast
Guale Revolt of 1608 Five micos of the Guale rose up against the Spanish colonial and Church mission ... against the French colonists of Louisiana. Cheraw War, 1716-1718 In the midst of the ...
French call for an end to the U.S. blockade of Cuba
The France Cuba association demanded the lifting of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade of the Island and described it as a genocidal policy intended to topple the Revolution.
Post-Revolution Cuba
August: Top members of the Cuban general staff begin appearing in Angola, a mineral-rich Portuguese colony ... French writer who once fought in Havana with Castro's forces, travels to Cuba to ...
Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora
1 Cuban Colonial Prints: Constructing Our National Identity ... Chanel 2016/17 Cruise collection in Havana’s Paseo del Prado.² The French fashion house combined references to Cuba’s midcentury... 11 ...
Revisiting Africa’s colonial border
Why should the inherited colonial artifice which was designed specifically for the administrative convenience of the British, French, German, Portuguese—the colonisers, be sustained and defended ...
8 beautiful places to stay in Havana, Cuba
French architect ... boutique stays authorised in Cuba in 2014 and with nine rooms to boot. With an expert eye for interior design, Osmani Hernández revived the early Republic-era building – three ...
STAMPS: Navigation and commerce
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan of the United States Navy published The Importance of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783 in which, along with subsequent publications, he articulated the need ...
