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Cuban Currency: The Dollar and Special Period Fiction (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1626065 in Books
- Published on: 2008-02-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 248 pages
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Synopsis
In Cuba, the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s was accompanied by an economic crisis called the "special period in times of peace." During this time Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first time since its 1959 revolution, and the U.S. dollar was instated as domestic currency. In this text, Whitfield (comparative literature, Br
