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Pages: 315
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Language: en
Pages: 324
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Language: en
Pages: 219
Pages: 219
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-31 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Includes essays on: the role of race in the revolution of 1933; the subject of disaster in eighteenth-century Cuban poetry; developments in Cuban historiography
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Pages: 423
Pages: 423
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