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On Captivity: A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896 – 1898 First Edition, First ed. Edition
Author(s): Manuel Ciges Aparicio (Author), Dolores Walker (Editor, Translator), Christop Schmidt-N (Foreword)
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date: 15 Nov. 2012
- Edition: First Edition, First ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 0817317694
- ISBN-13: 9780817317690
Book Description
On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98).
Editorial Reviews
Review
“On Captivity promises to make accessible to a wide readership an important first-person account: a witness to an extraordinary period in Cuban history.”–Louis A. Pérez Jr., author of Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution
“This is a book you can’t put down. The translation is impeccable and reads fluidly. If I were teaching a class on the Cuban Revolution or the Spanish- American War (or a component of a class on either subject), I would want to assign this book. It is a fine primary source for undergraduates. It is not only gripping, but also offers a novel perspective on those episodes, a perspective far removed from the classical military and political ones.” –Rafe Blaufarb, author of
Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835About the Author
D. J. Walker, professor emerita at the University of New Orleans, is the author of Spanish Women and the Colonial Wars of the 1890s.
