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The best-known image of America’s 1898 war with Spain is that of Teddy Roosevelt on horseback charging with his Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba. While the Rough Riders fired the first shot in the war and were the first to raise the U.S. flag in Cuba, their exploits were greatly mythologized.In fact, Cuban troops—who had already been waging an armed struggle for independence from Spain for three years before the U.S. intervened in 1898—were crucial to the success of the larger war against Spain. Some sense of their importance can be gleaned from this account by N. G. Gonzales, the American editor of a pro-Cuban newspaper. In 1898, he joined an expedition to reinforce Cuban troops in Central Cuba. Cuban cigarmakers from Key West and Tampa (centers of Cuban-American trade union and socialist sentiment) dominated the expedition, though at least fifty black troops from the 10th Cavalry also participated. Gonzales later described the conditions faced by Cuban troops fighting with General Máximo Gómez in his diary. ... Read more

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A boxed set of 6 wonderful books, great for learning goegraphy and history. The stamps included will help that tactile learner. Fantastic photography! ... Read more

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A chain of islands only 50 miles off the coast of Florida, the Bahamas have long offered an irresistable lure for holidaymakers. This is an in-depth look at the 700 islands which comprise the Bahamas, providing information on accommodation, from low-cost to luxury, in this tropical paradise. ... Read more

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Surveys the history, topography, people, and culture of the Bahamas, with an emphasis on the country's current economy, industry, and place in the political world. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Informative, Interesting, and at times Humorous
"Land of The Pink Pearl" should be required reading for Bahamian schoolchildren. It is a rare glimpse into a world that no longer exists, yet many sociological aspects mentioned in this book are still recognizable today in The Bahamas. Excellent read, I never felt bogged down by the author's 1800's style of writing.

The Land Of The Pink Pearl
This is a very ineresting book and a must read for anyone going to the Bahamas or wanting to learn moreabout life in the late 1800s Bahamas. Mr. Powles takes the reader along on his travels in the islands and gives gooddiscriptions of life of the common people and ther living conditions. ... Read more