Cuba Then, Cuba Now

Ebook
On sale Mar 05, 2019 | 108 Pages | 9781984897954

In an enthralling blend of travel literature and history, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro provides an insightful portrait of a mesmerizing place. Building on the in-depth exploration of Cuba's society, culture, and politics that formed part of his recent book, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, Jelly-Schapiro adds new material covering the changes that followed the death of Fidel Castro. The result is a concise and up-to-date overview of Cuba's past and present and its enduring grip on the world’s imagination.
© Mirissa Neff
JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of BooksThe New York Times, and Harper’s Magazine, among many other publications. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World, the cocreator (with Rebecca Solnit) of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a scholar in residence at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, where he also teaches.
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In an enthralling blend of travel literature and history, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro provides an insightful portrait of a mesmerizing place. Building on the in-depth exploration of Cuba's society, culture, and politics that formed part of his recent book, Island People: The Caribbean and the World, Jelly-Schapiro adds new material covering the changes that followed the death of Fidel Castro. The result is a concise and up-to-date overview of Cuba's past and present and its enduring grip on the world’s imagination.

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© Mirissa Neff
JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO is a geographer and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of BooksThe New York Times, and Harper’s Magazine, among many other publications. He is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World, the cocreator (with Rebecca Solnit) of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, and a scholar in residence at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, where he also teaches.
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