A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York
When Bernardo Vega arrived in New York from Puerto Rico in 1916, he was at the forefront of a migrant stream that was soon to become a flood. His memoirs—perceptive, lively, and politically aware—provide us with a unique and often humorous firsthand account of the life of an immigrant, as well as of the concerns and activities of the Puerto Rican community in New York in the period between the wars.… | more |
The Intellectual Roots of Independence
An Anthology of Puerto Rican Political Essays
Explores the impact of colonial domination and defends Puerto Rican anti-imperial struggles.… | more |
Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines
The author is the courageous wife of a Bolivian tin miner. Social and economic deprivation drove her to pro-Marxist political action as a leader of a Housewives’ Committee, dedicated to improving miners’ and peasants’ conditions. This is a vivid account of her activities and brutal imprisonment, accompanied by her observations on the clergy, military, and upper-class abandonment of Bolivia’s repressed poor…This is a remarkably articulate report with astute political commentary…an important social document from a usually silent group.… | more |
Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence
Presents the celebrated Cuban revolutionary’s thoughts on “Nuestra America,” the Latin American Martí fought to make free.… | more |
The "Bronze Titan" of Cuba’s Struggle for Independence
A powerful portrait of Maceo, committed anti-imperialist and heroic independence fighter.… | more |
Notes on the Puerto Rican Revolution
An Essay on American Dominance and Caribbean Resistance
This essay on Puerto Rico analyzes the deepening crisis in American capitalism and how it inevitably affects Puerto Rico. Essentially, Lewis asks and seeks to answer three questions: What is the nature of Puerto Rican society after a decade of dramatic and traumatic change? What should be the strategy of freedom? What can be, ought to be, the nature of the new Puerto Rican society, once it is released from American rule?… | more |
The Socio-Economic Complex of Sugar in Cuba 1760–1860
This extraordinary work deserves to be called monumental for its scrupulous and exhaustive analysis of the development of the sugar industry in Cuba, for the imposing originality of its approach, and for the unsentimental but no less passionate vision of history it embodies. The product of twenty years of historical research combined with ten years of economic and technical work in the industry, The Sugarmill is a landmark in post-revolutionary Cuban scholarship.… | more |
Writings on the United States and American Imperialism
Explores the emergent threat of U.S. imperialism from 1881 to 1895.… | more |
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.… | more |
The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Vol. 1
1895-1898
Argues that the Cuban nation was a central protagonist in the conflict — rather than a passive victim of a conflict between great powers.… | more |