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Synopsis
This book remains an up-to date and engrossing document more than one hundred fifty years after its initial publication. The Island of Cuba is a key source for studies of 19th-centruy Cuba and slavery in the Caribbean, and has appeared in translated editions throughout the world.
Humboldt's description of the island, which brings together the fields of anthropology, geography, agriculture, demographics, commerce, and communications, provides a context in which to trace the history of Cuba-U.S. relations as well as a basis for modern Cuban studies.
Cubans celebrate Humboldt as the second "discoverer" of the island (after Columbus), and the controversial publication history of this book mirrors Cuba's history. The Spanish version was banned in colonial Cuba, and the American translation created an international controversy because of the translator J.S. Thrasher's open call for the American annexation of Cuba. Thrasher also deleted a chapter in which Humboldt condemned slavery, in order to please the pro-slavery party.
This new edition restores the missing chapter on slavery in a new translation and provides the text of the letter by Humboldt condemning the omission as well as Thrasher's response (both published in the New York Daily Times) and his polemical preface. Luis Martinez-Fernandez analyzes the publication history of Humboldt's book on Cuba, including an anniversary edition published under Fidel Castro, and follows the Cuban point of view on Humboldt over the course of the book's multifaceted history.
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About the Author
About Shelley Frisch: is author of "The Lure of the Linguistic", and translator of many books from the German, including biographies of Nietzsche, Kafka, and Einstein. She has taught German literature at Columbia University, Haverford College, and Rutgers University, and serves on the PEN Translation Committee.
About Luis Fernandez Martinez: Author of Fighting Slavery in the Caribbean: The Life and Times, University of Central Florida .
About Frank Argote-Freyre: Keene College
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French, German
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- PublisherMarkus Wiener Publishers
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1558762434
- ISBN 13 9781558762435
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages280
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