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Harvard Recommended Reading READING GUIDE HARVARD RECOMMENDED READING ere is a brief selection of favorite, new, and hard-to-find books, including recommendations from our Harvard study leaders. This list is not trip-specific and, instead, is intended as a general collection of H readings for some of our most visited destinations. Hopefully this provides a helpful jumping-off-point for your travel preparations! C UB A Daniel P. Erikson The Cuba Wars, Fidel Castro, the United States, Alejo Carpentier and the Next Revolution Music in Cuba 2008, PAPER, 368 PAGES 2003, PAPER, 302 PAGES Worth Looking For This extensive study of Cuban musical history, originally published in 1946, draws on primary documents to encompass European-style elite Cuban music as well as C EN TR A L A ME RI C A the popular rural Spanish folk and urban Afro-Cuban music. Clive Cussler The Mayan Secrets Carlos Frias 2013, HARD COVER, 375 PAGES Take Me With You, A Memoir Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in 2009, PAPER, 291 PAGES Mexico when they come upon a remarkable discovery – Journalist Carlos Frias, the American-born son of Cuban the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and exiles, travels to Cuba in 2006 as power is being within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever transferred from Fidel to Raul Castro. He shares his seen. The book contains astonishing information about experiences in contemporary Cuban society while the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. reflecting on the lives his parents lived in the country. An adventure set in Mexico from the master of the genre. Fiona McAuslan John Lloyd Stephens The Rough Guide to Havana Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas 2010, PAPER, 248 PAGES A comprehensive guide to Havana in the hip, literate and and Yucatan: Volume Two very informative Rough Guide style. It's divided cleanly 1969, PAPER, 474 PAGES Stephen's classic account of archaeological discovery, between practical information and illuminating originally published in 1843. This second volume covers background on culture and history. Stephens and Catherwood's further adventures, including Julia Sweig the Yucatan and Palenque. Cuba, What Everyone Needs to Know Michael Coe 2013, PAPER, 336 PAGES Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Breaking the Maya Code Foreign Relations, Julia Sweig traces the geography, 2012, PAPER, 304 PAGES Mayan hieroglyphs were a linguistic puzzle until the 1952 history and identity of Cuba in this admirably succinct breakthrough translation of a Mayan bark-paper text, as portrait of the island nation and its role in world affairs. Coe explains in this classic tale, revised and updated for this third edition. Michael Coe F R A NC E The Maya 2011, PAPER, 280 PAGES Denis Diderot The eighth edition of Coe's clear, concise, illustrated Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream survey of the Maya. 1976, PAPER, 240 PAGES Diderot considers society, music, literature, politics, morality and philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment in S OUT H E A S T A SI A these imagined – and hilarious – conversations. Michael A. Aung-Thwin Alexis de Tocqueville A History of Myanmar Since Ancient Times, The Ancient Regime and the French Revolution Traditions and Transformations 2008, PAPER, 373 PAGES 2013, PAPER, 333 PAGES Gerald Bevan's translation of de Tocqueville's influential Aung-Thwin takes us from the sacred stupas of the Bagan look at the origins of modern France. plains to the grand colonial-era British mansions in this Robert Darnton tale of Burma’s storied 3,000-year history and rich culture. The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in George C. Herring French Cultural History America's Longest War, The United States and 2009, PAPER, 298 PAGES Professor of history and librarian at Harvard, Darnton Vietnam, 1950-1975 th 2001, PAPER, 384 PAGES looks at the city dwellers, towns, and countryside of 18 - This holistic history of the Vietnam War focuses on century France in this classic look at the relation between American involvement while remaining objectively non- culture and society in the Age of Enlightenment. partisan about the war and its outcomes. Herring is Voltaire, John Butt (Translator) Alumni Professor of history at the University of Candide Kentucky and former professor at West Point. 1990, PAPER, 144 PAGES Jean-Francois Hubert The classic, satirical French novel and basis for the Bernstein opera. The Art of Champa 2006, HARD COVER, 231 PAGES Honore de Balzac The accompanying catalog to the landmark 2005 Lost Illusions exhibition of stunning Cham sculpture at the Musee 2001, PAPER, 721 PAGES Guimet in Paris. A classic novel of life and ambition in 19th-century Paris, George Orwell alive and with a vivid sense of the great city's places and Burmese Days personality. 1989, PAPER, 287 PAGES Orwell, a veteran of the colonial police force in Rangoon, S OUT H A MERI C A writes with irony and insight in this sharp novel of politics, folly and the British. Jeffrey Quilter Michael W. Charney Treasures of the Incas: Nazca, Moche and the A History of Modern Burma Pre-Colombian Civilisations of the Andes 2009, PAPER, 241 PAGES 2011, PAPER, 224 PAGES Bookended with the annexation of Upper Burma by the Fairly simple introduction to Peruvian archaeology, from British in 1886 and the devastating cyclone that ravaged first arrivals to Incas, with good chapters on the Moche, the country in 2008, this brief history explores Burma’s Lambayeque, and Chimu cultures. political division and monastic opposition to state Richard L. Burger (Editor), Lucy C. Salazar (Editor) control. Machu Picchu, Unveiling the Mystery of the Neil Sheehan Incas A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and 2008, PAPER, 256 PAGES America in Vietnam Burger and Salazar vividly evoke the art, architecture, 2009, HARD COVER, 861 PAGES culture and society of Machu Picchu in this illustrated, Worth Looking For up-to-date survey. With Hiram Bingham's original report, archival and modern photographs and excellent chapters on recent archaeology at the site. Adriana von Hagen, Craig Morris the shores of Kotzebue Sound to his work on the The Incas landmark Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to his 2012, PAPER, 256 PAGES time in the Alaska senate. Morris and von Hagen trace the rise and rule of the Inca Bob Reiss with authority in this region-by-region survey, reconstructing the finely built palaces and temples of The Eskimo and the Oil Man 2012, HARD COVER, 305 PAGES Cusco and life at lavish royal estates like Chinchero and This book documents the struggle between cheap gas and Machu Picchu. With 150 mostly black-and-white pristine wilderness that is tearing apart many American photographs and illustrations, including extensive site communities through the story of an Eskimo mayor and a plans. Shell executive in Alaska. Stephen Haycox G ER M A N Y Alaska, An American Colony 2006, PAPER, 372 PAGES Kurt Vonnegut This engaging, scholarly history, divided between Russian Slaughterhouse-Five: or The Children's Crusade exploration and the American period, offers a cultural, 1991, PAPER, 215 PAGES political and environmental overview of Alaska, also Kurt Vonnegut's popular novel, set during the bombing exploring the colonization and exploitation of its of Dresden, in the United States and on the distant planet indigenous people and the power of myth in shaping our of Tralfamadore. Ranges from satiric absurdity to an national perceptions of the region. extremely powerful account of the destruction of Dresden. Erich Maria Remarque A FRI C A All Quiet on the Western Front Nadine Gordimer 1996, PAPER, 295 PAGES Written by a soldier in the Kaiser's army, this novel has None to Accompany Me 1995, PAPER, 324 PAGES been hailed as the greatest novel of World War I, and was With keen attention to character and racial politics, Nobel later made into a memorable film. Prize-winner Gordimer traces the experiences of two Anthea Bell (Translator), W. G. Sebald families during turbulent, post-Apartheid South Africa. Austerlitz Nadine Gordimer 2012, PAPER, 298 PAGES Seabald's haunting book, evocative of WWII Europe, The Conservationist 1983, PAPER, 272 PAGES travels from the magnificent railway station in Antwerp to Gordimer's subtle Booker Prize-winning novel portrays a London, Paris and the streets in Prague where the wealthy South African industrialist who struggles to narrator Austerlitz was born and fled during the Nazi preserve his way of life, his power and his possessions in devastation. Tenth anniversary edition. the face of massive injustice. Heinrich Von Kleist Martin Meredith Michael Kohlhaas Diamonds, Gold, and War, The British, the 2005, PAPER, 133 PAGES This stirring tale follows our honorable protagonist, Boers and the Making of South Africa 2008, PAPER, 592 PAGES Michael Kohlhaas, as he takes the law into his own hands This history makes palpable the cost of greed to Africa's and finds the body politic against him. Based on actual native peoples and explains the rise of virulent Afrikaner events, the story is considered a masterwork of German nationalism. literature. J.M. Coetzee Theodor Fontane Disgrace Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg 2000, PAPER, 224 PAGES (Walks Through Brandenburg) Set in Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern 2001, PAPER, 396 PAGES Cape, Coetzee's searing novel explores the devastating Worth Looking For realities of racial politics in post-apartheid South Africa. 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