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“Residing in this distant portion of the great empire”: The Irish in Imperial Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia, was one of Britain’s most important naval installations. Built in 1749, to counter the French fortress of Louisbourg further up...
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The Concept of the Gentleman in British Spy Literature
This chapter focuses on the concept of the gentleman. It starts with an overview of the change in the meaning of a gentleman and attitudes regarding...
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Violent Resistance: The Irish Revolution and India
Gandhi famously advocated pacifism, but Indian opposition to British rule was not exclusively non-violent; many physical force nationalists used the...
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The Philosophical Implications of the Cuban Revolution
The relationship between Sartre’s vision of Cuban history and his philosophical works. The role of the sugar industry in denying freedom. Sartre’s...
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Hurricane Over Sugar
Sartre’s journalistic reports about Cuba, published in France-Soir. His other, unpublished, Cuba texts. Criticisms of the F-S articles.
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Revolution and Violence
The violence of the revolution. The relationship between Sartre’s Cuba articles and his preface to Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.
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Sartre and Lunes de Revolución
Sartre’s meeting with the writers in the Lunes offices. Brief cultural history of Lunes de Revolución. The writers’ knowledge of Sartre’s works and...
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Sartre’s relationship with Cuba through the 1960s
Sartre’s changing sympathy for the Cuban Revolution through the 1960s and 1970s. His invitation to the Congreso Cultural de La Habana in January...
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Were the France-Soir Articles Propaganda?
A defence of Sartre’s Cuba articles. Were the articles propaganda? Sartre’s message to the readers of the articles.
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Sartre’s History of Cuba
Sartre’s understanding of Cuban history, the centrality of sugar and the neo-colonial rule of the United States in Cuba’s history.
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Words with the Intellectuals
The parallels between Sartre’s discussion with the Lunes writers in 1960 and Castro’s meetings with Havana’s writers and artists in 1961. The...
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The France-Soir Articles Today
Bringing Sartre’s Cuba articles in from the cold. The importance of the articles as historical documentation of the early years of the Cuban...
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Sartre and Beauvoir in Havana
The narrative development of the F-S articles. Sartre’s observations of what has not changed and what has changed in Cuba since his 1949 visit. His...
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Brazil, Cuba and Revolution
Sartre and Beauvoir’s ongoing support of the Revolution after their Cuba trip, especially in Brazil. Their return trip to Cuba in October 1960, their...
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Sartre in Cuba–Cuba in Sartre
This book explores Sartre’s engagement with the Cuban Revolution.
In early 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir accepted the invitation to...
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Sartre’s Other Book About Cuba
Speculations as to why Sartre never published his proposed larger book about Cuba.
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Sartre’s Account of Huber Matos
Sartre’s account in his unpublished text of the ‘insurrection’ of Huber Matos. Sartre’s uncompromising position.
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Sartre, Beauvoir and Che Guevara
Sartre and Beauvoir’s meeting with Che Guevara, and the lack of written testimonial of the meeting. Sartre’s effusive praise of Guevara’s ability to...
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Sartre and Fidel Castro
The revolution as an act of praxis. Fidel Castro as a man of action, as a rebel who enthuses others to rebel but not to rebel against the...
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The Invitation to Cuba
Paris 1960: Sartre and Beauvoir invited by Carlos Franqui to Cuba to witness the new Revolution. Sartre’s concurrent writing projects. Their stay in...