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" To change the world : "
Margaret Randall.
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BL
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1047914
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b802284
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| Main Entry
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Randall, Margaret,1936-
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To change the world : : my years in Cuba /\ Margaret Randall.
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Rutgers University Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) :: illustrations
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0813546451
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: 1282033506
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: 9781282033504
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0813544319
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0813544327
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9780813544311
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9780813544328
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Scarsdale to Havana -- Transition -- Settling in -- Food, food, food -- Ten million tons of sugar and eleven fishermen -- A poetry contest and a beauty pageant -- Women and difference -- Information and consciousness -- Changing hearts, minds, and law -- "Poetry, like bread, is for everyone" -- El quinquenio gris -- The Sandinistas -- A question of power -- Epilogue.
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In To Change the World, the legendary writer and poet Margaret Randall chronicles her decade in Cuba from 1969 to 1980. Both a highly personal memoir and an examination of the revolutions great achievements and painful mistakes, the book paints a portrait of the island during a difficult, dramatic, and exciting time. Randall gives readers an inside look at her childrens education, the process through which new law was enacted, the ins and outs of healthcare, employment, internationalism, culture, and ordinary peoples lives. She explores issues of censorship and repression, describing how Cu.
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Randall, Margaret,1936-Travel-- Cuba.
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Randall, Margaret,1936-
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History Archaeology.
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Latin America.
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Regions Countries - Americas.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- Hispanic American Studies.
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TRAVEL.
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Travel.
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Cuba, Description and travel.
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Cuba, History, 1959-1990.
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Cuba.
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Kuba.
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917.29104/64092
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F1765.2.F36 2009eb
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