Havana Habit

Informationen zum Autor A poet! fiction writer! memoirist! and scholar! Gustavo Perez Firmat is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. Klappentext Cuba! an island 750 miles long! with a population of about 11 million! lies less than 100 miles off the US coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this title! the author probes the importance of Havana! and of greater Cuba! in the cultural history of the United States. Zusammenfassung Cuba! an island 750 miles long! with a population of about 11 million! lies less than 100 miles off the US coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this title! the author probes the importance of Havana! and of greater Cuba! in the cultural history of the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Gustavo Perez Firmat, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Gustavo Pérez Firmat, PEREZ FIRMAT GUSTAVO, Gustavo Perez-Firmat
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2012
• EAN: 9780300177893
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17789-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Cuba, Sociology: customs & traditions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Cultural studies: customs and traditions