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The Cuban Revolution: Roots, Repercussions, Resistance: Find Books

Guide on Yale resources for the study of the Cuban Revolution

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Books on the Cuban Revolution

Bay of Pigs Declassified by Peter Kornbluh (Editor)
Call Number: F1788 B385 1998 (Bass Library)
ISBN: 1565844947
Publication Date: 1998
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 : A Natinal Security Archive Documents Reader by Laurence Chang (Editor); Peter Kornbluh (Editor)
Call Number: E841 C8451 1998 (Sterling Memorial Library)
ISBN: 1565840445
Publication Date: 1998
Castro and the Cuban Revolution by Thomas M. Leonard
Call Number: Through Borrow Direct
ISBN: 031329979X
Publication Date: 1999
Che Guevara (E-book) by Helen Yaffe
Call Number: F1788 .Y34 2009 (Sterling)
ISBN: 9780230233874
Publication Date: 2009-02-25
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Contesting Castro by Thomas G. Paterson
Call Number: E183.8 C9 P376 1994
ISBN: 0195086309
Publication Date: 1994
Cuba: a new history by Richard Gott
Call Number: F1776 G68X 2005 (Bass Library - 24-Hour Reserve)
ISBN: 0300111142
Publication Date: 2005
The Cuba Reader (E-book) by Aviva Chomsky (Editor); Barry Carr (Editor); Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Editor); Robin Kirk (Contribution by); Orin Starn (Contribution by)
Call Number: F1776 .C85X 2003 (Sterling Library)
ISBN: 9780822384915
Publication Date: 2009
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The Cuban Revolution by Marifeli Pérez-Stable
Call Number: F1788 .P455X 2012 (Sterling)
ISBN: 9780195367089
Publication Date: 2012
Fidel Castro by Fidel Castro; Ignacio Ramonet; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
Call Number: F1788.22.C3 A513 2008 (Bass Library)
ISBN: 9781416553281
Publication Date: 2008
On Becoming Cuban by Louis A. Pérez
Call Number: F1760 P47X 1999 (Bass Library)
ISBN: 0807824879
Publication Date: 1999
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered (E-book) by Samuel Farber
Call Number: F1788 .F328X 2006 (Bass Library)
ISBN: 0807856738
Publication Date: 2006
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Women and the Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Stone (Editor); Fidel Castro; Vilma Espin
Call Number: HQ1508 C45 (Sterling Memorial Library
ISBN: 9780873486088
Publication Date: 1981

Subject Headings

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Castro, Fidel
Batista y Zaldivar, Fulgencio
Cuba--Economic conditions, 1918-1959
Cuba--Economic policy
Cuba--Foreign Relations--1959-
Cuba--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union
Cuba--History--1933-1959
Cuba--History--Invasion, 1961--Sources
Cuba--History--Invasion,1961--Personal Narratives
Cuba--Politics and Governments--1959
Economic sanctions, American--Cuba
Guerilla Warfare
Military Bases, Soviet--Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Revolutions--Caribbean Area
Rule of Law--Latin America
Political Violence--Latin America
Socialism, Cuba
Women--Cuba--Social Conditions
Women-- Political Activity--Cuba