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Guantanamo, USA - The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost (Hardcover): Stephen Irving Max Schwab Guantanamo, USA - The Untold History of America's Cuban Outpost (Hardcover)
Stephen Irving Max Schwab
R1,337 Discovery Miles 13 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War, Guantnamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island, the gulag of our times. This book takes readers beyond the orange-jumpsuited detainees of today's headlines to provide the first comprehensive history of Guantnamo from its origins to the present.

Occupying 45 square miles of land and sea, Guantnamo has for more than a century symbolized the imperial impulse within U.S. foreign policy, and its occupation is decried by Cuba as a violation of international law-even though a treaty legally grants the U.S. a lease in perpetuity. Stephen Schwab now describes the base's role in American, Caribbean, and global history, explaining how it came to be, why it's still there, and how it continues to serve a variety of purposes.

Schwab views the base's creation as part of a broad U.S. strategy of annexations, protectorates, and limited interventions devised to create a strong sphere of influence in the western Atlantic. He charts its history from this early belief that it would prevent European powers from staking imperial claims in the Caribbean and examines the crucial defensive role that Guantnamo played as a convoy hub for strategic goods during World War II. He then looks at clashes over Guantnamo during the Cold War, culminating in LBJ's decision to make the base independent by firing Cuban workers and building a desalinization plant. Schwab also fleshes out Guantnamo's ongoing roles as the U.S. Navy's lone forward base in the Caribbean, providing refueling for U.S. and allied ships, as a Coast Guard station engaged in search-and-rescue missions and counternarcotics operations, and as a U.S. facility for processing undocumented aliens.

Even though the Castro government persistently protests America's presence--and refuses even to bank the rent that the U.S. dutifully pays--Guantnamo remains the only place where diplomatic exchanges between the two countries occur, and Schwab documents how the facility has served mutual interests as both a point of nationalistic frictions and a center for diplomatic compromise. By presenting Guantnamo's story within its broader historical framework, his book gives readers a greater appreciation of America's true stake in this controversial Caribbean outpost.


Die Stoerungen des Wasser- und Elektrolytstoffwechsels (German, Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1959): Max... Die Stoerungen des Wasser- und Elektrolytstoffwechsels (German, Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1959)
Max Schwab, Klaus Kuhns
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Zweck und Ziel dieses Buches gehen aus den Geleitworten von Herrn Prof. SCHOEN hervor. Es fehlt im deutschen Schrifttum eine breiter angelegte monographische Dar- stellung des Wasser-und Elektrolytstoffwechsels, die sowohl die physiologischen und pathophysiologischen Grundlagen als auch die praktischen Auswirkungen auf die verschiedenen klinischen Facher beriicksichtigt. Ob das vorliegende Buch diese Lucke ausfullt, muB der Leser entscheiden. Ein schwer zu lOsendes Problem war die Behandlung der Literatur. Sie wurde nur insoweit berucksichtigt, als sie zur Belegung der einzelnen Sachverhalte not- wendig war. Dabei wurden zusammenfassende Darstellungen und Ubersichten bevorzugt, wenn solche vorhanden waren. Unser aufrichtiger Dank gilt unseren klinischen Lehrern, denen dieses Buch gewidmet ist. Herr Prof. SCHOEN hat durch sein Interesse und seine Forderung groBen Anteil an der Entstehung dieses Buches, wofur wir ihm zu besonderem Dank verpflichtet sind. Wir danken ferner allen Kollegen, die an unseren Arbeiten beteiligt waren oder durch Diskussionen Anregungen gaben. Dem Springer-Verlag schulden wir besonderen Dank fUr die vertrauensvolle Zusammenarbeit und das bereitwillige Eingehen auf unsere Wunsche. Gottingen und Northeim, im Miirz 1959 M. SCHWAB, K. KUHNS Inhaltsverzeichnis Erster Teil 1. Kapitel Physikalisch-chemische Grundbegriffe und MaBeinheiten I. Physikalisch-chemische Grundbegriffe waBriger Lasungen 1. Definitionen: Molektil, Atom, Elektrolyte 2. MaBeinheiten . . . . . . 2 3. KonzentrationsmaBe . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Osmose, osmotischer Druck . . . . . . 4 II. Physikalisch-chemische Grundbegriffe des Saure-Basen-Stoffwechsels . 5 1. PH-Wert als MaB der H+-Ionenkonzentration . 5 2. Sauren und Basen ................... .

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