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A Latino Memoir

Exploring Identity, Family and the Common Good

By: Gerald Poyo

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A Latino Memoir

Exploring Identity, Family and the Common Good

By: Gerald Poyo

In a bumpy, anxiety-producing plane ride across the Straits of Florida to Cuba in 1979, graduate student Gerald Poyo knew his life would either end that day in the World War II-era prop airplane or change forever. He survived the trip, and his ten-day visit solidified his academic research and confirmed his career as a history professor. In this wide-ranging examination of his relatives’ migrations in the Western Hemisphere—the Americas—over five generations, Poyo uses his training as a historian to unearth his family’s stories. Beginning with his great-great grandfather’s flight from Cuba to Key West in 1869, this is also about the loss of a beloved homeland. His father was Cuban; his mother was from Flint, Michigan. Poyo himself was six months old when his parents took him to Bogotá, Colombia. He celebrated his eighth birthday in New Jersey and his tenth in Venezuela. He was 12 when he landed in Buenos Aires, where he spent his formative years before returning to the United States for college. “My heart belonged to the South, but somehow I knew I could not escape the North,” he writes. Transnationalism shaped his life and identity. Divided into two parts, the first section traces his parents and ancestors as he links their stories to impersonal movements in the world—Spanish colonialism, Cuban nationalism, United States expansionism—that influenced their lives. The second half explores how exile, migration and growing up a “hemispheric American, a borderless American” impacted his own development and stimulated questions about poverty, religion and relations between Latin America and the United States. Ultimately, this thought-provoking memoir unveils the universal desire for a safe, stable life for one’s family.

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1518505678

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A Latino Memoir

Exploring Identity, Family and the Common Good

By: Gerald Poyo

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Exploring Identity, Family and the Common Good

By: Gerald Poyo

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Stoves and Trees

How Much Wood Would a Woodstove Save If a Woodstove Could Save Wood?

By: Gerald Foley,Patricia Moss,Lloyd Timberlake

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Stoves and Trees

How Much Wood Would a Woodstove Save If a Woodstove Could Save Wood?

By: Gerald Foley,Patricia Moss,Lloyd Timberlake

Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes. It also asks if improved stoves actually save fuel and if they can help slow down tropical deforestation. The book not only examines newer stoves but also ascertains how people buy, collect and use wood in the developing world. It finds that most forests are cleared for timber or farmland not fuelwood and explains why stoves which show 50% energy savings in European laboratories often save little or none in village homes.

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128

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Taylor & Francis

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1040028713

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9781040028711

With All, and for the Good of All

The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898

By: Gerald E. Poyo

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With All, and for the Good of All

The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898

By: Gerald E. Poyo

Cuban-Americans are beginning to understand their long-standing roots and traditions in the United States that reach back over a century prior to 1959. This is the first book-length confirmation of those beginnings, and its places the Cuban hero and revolutionary thinker José Martí within the political and socioeconomic realities of the Cuban communities in the United States of that era. By clarifying Martí’s relationship with those communities, Gerald E. Poyo provides a detailed portrait of the exile centers and their role in the growth and consolidation of nineteenth-century Cuban nationalism. Poyo differentiates between the development of nationalist sentiment among liberal elites and popular groups and reveals how these distinct strains influenced the thought and conduct of Martí and the successful Cuban revolution of the 1890s.

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202

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Duke University Press

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0822381532

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9780822381532

Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians

By: Gerald B. Folland

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Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians

By: Gerald B. Folland

Quantum field theory has been a great success for physics, but it is difficult for mathematicians to learn because it is mathematically incomplete. Folland, who is a mathematician, has spent considerable time digesting the physical theory and sorting out the mathematical issues in it. Fortunately for mathematicians, Folland is a gifted expositor. The purpose of this book is to present the elements of quantum field theory, with the goal of understanding the behavior of elementary particles rather than building formal mathematical structures, in a form that will be comprehensible to mathematicians. Rigorous definitions and arguments are presented as far as they are available, but the text proceeds on a more informal level when necessary, with due care in identifying the difficulties. The book begins with a review of classical physics and quantum mechanics, then proceeds through the construction of free quantum fields to the perturbation-theoretic development of interacting field theory and renormalization theory, with emphasis on quantum electrodynamics. The final two chapters present the functional integral approach and the elements of gauge field theory, including the Salam–Weinberg model of electromagnetic and weak interactions.

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325

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American Mathematical Soc.

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1470464837

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9781470464837

Race to Revolution

The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow

By: Gerald Horne

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Race to Revolution

The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow

By: Gerald Horne

The histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwined and have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship between the two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnections among slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution. Slavery was central to the economic and political trajectories of Cuba and the United States, both in terms of each nation’s internal political and economic development and in the interactions between the small Caribbean island and the Colossus of the North. Horne draws a direct link between the black experiences in two very different countries and follows that connection through changing periods of resistance and revolutionary upheaval. Black Cubans were crucial to Cuba’s initial independence, and the relative freedom they achieved helped bring down Jim Crow in the United States, reinforcing radical politics within the black communities of both nations. This in turn helped to create the conditions that gave rise to the Cuban Revolution which, on New Years’ Day in 1959, shook the United States to its core. Based on extensive research in Havana, Madrid, London, and throughout the U.S., Race to Revolution delves deep into the historical record, bringing to life the experiences of slaves and slave traders, abolitionists and sailors, politicians and poor farmers. It illuminates the complex web of interaction and infl uence that shaped the lives of many generations as they struggled over questions of race, property, and political power in both Cuba and the United States.

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429

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NYU Press

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1583674578

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9781583674574

Exile and Revolution

José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence

By: Gerald E. Poyo

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Exile and Revolution

José D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence

By: Gerald E. Poyo

José Dolores Poyo (1836-1911) was an activist, publisher, social critic, fundraiser, and foundational figure in the campaign for Cuban independence from Spain. His leadership and his mantra-"adelante la revolución" (forward the revolution)-mobilized an insurrectionist movement in Key West. His multidimensional grassroots work and his newspaper El Yara, the longest-lived Cuban exile newspaper of the nineteenth century, gave hope to a people who aspired to be liberated from the bonds of colonialism. In Exile and Revolution, Gerald Poyo provides a comprehensive account of how his great-great-grandfather spurred the working-class community of Key West to transform their roles as supporting cast to become critical actors in the struggle for Cuban independence. The book reveals the depth of Cuba’s longtime ties to Florida, the cigar industry, and its workers; the experience of Cubans in the American South; and the diplomatic intrigues involving Spain, Cuba, and the United States.

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University Press of Florida

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081306502X

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9780813065021

¡Presente!

U.S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present

By: Timothy Matovina,Gerald E. Poyo

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¡Presente!

U.S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present

By: Timothy Matovina,Gerald E. Poyo

Through dozens of original documents ¡Presente! offers readers the story of Latino/Hispanic Catholicism from 1534 to the present. From the first mission encounters in the sixteenth century, to Cesar Chavez and the UFW, to the beginnings of mujerista theology in the 1980s, this collection offers a unique and indispensable look at the community that has become the largest ethnic component in the American Catholic Church today.

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304

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725235390

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9781725235397

With All, and for the Good of All

The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898

By: Gerald E. Poyo

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The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898

By: Gerald E. Poyo

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Duke University Press

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0822308819

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9780822308812

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