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Author	Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 1949-
Title	The Havana habit / Gustavo Pérez Firmat.
Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	972.91 P	MISSING

Description	x, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: so near and yet so foreign -- America's smartest city -- A little rumba numba -- Music for the eyes -- Mad for mambo -- Cuba in Apt. 3-B -- Dirges in bolero time -- Comic comandantes, exotic exiles -- A taste of Cuba -- Epilogue: Adams's apple.
Subject	Cuba -- In popular culture -- United States.
	United States -- Civilization -- Cuban influences.
	Cuba -- Foreign public opinion, American.
	National characteristics, Cuban.
	Cuba -- Social life and customs.
	Havana (Cuba) -- Social life and customs.
	Americans -- Travel -- Cuba -- History.
	Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba.
ISBN	9780300141320 (clothbound : alk. paper)
	0300141327 (clothbound : alk. paper)

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