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Havana before Castro : when Cuba was a tropical playground / Peter Moruzzi.
- Title
- Havana before Castro : when Cuba was a tropical playground / Peter Moruzzi.
- Author
- Moruzzi, Peter.
- Publication
- Salt Lake City, Utah : Gibbs Smith, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- 256 p. : ill., maps; 23 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- Here, captured in one amazing book, is the drama, passion, intrigue, and opulence of a legendary city during its heyday-before the Castro dictatorship re-imagined the country and Americans were banned from travel to this tropical paradise.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-253) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From Spanish colony to Cuban Republic -- Sugar, rum, and cigars -- Havana between the World Wars -- The tragedy of Cuban politics -- Cuba's postwar tourist explosion -- Drinking, dining, and dancing -- Tropicana -- Havana at night -- Life as a Habanero -- Cuba's incredible music scene -- Havana and the mob -- Havana riviera -- Habana Hilton -- Havana's other fabulous hotels -- Havana modern -- New Year's 1958 and beyond.
- ISBN
- 9781423603672
- 1423603672
- LCCN
- ^^2008008152
- OCLC
- 212020815
- SCSB-11408099
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library