Cuba Between Reform and Revolution

by Peréz, Louis A.

• ISBN13: 9780195179118
• ISBN10: 0195179110
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Lou Perez's Cuba has been a welcome addition to the Cuban history course since it first appeared. The Second Edition has solidified its place as the leading choice among teachers of modern Cuban history, and, based on events over the past nine years, the text has now been updated and revised. Perez has added new material covering the years from 1995 through 2004 in the chapter on Socialist Cuba (the last chapter). Further, the book ends with a political chronology, which has beenrevised and updated; the extensive bibliography been condensed where necessary (through elimination of outdated or superseded entries) and expanded to highlight the scholarship of the past decade (some of it by Perez himself). He has also condensed material in the body of the text where possible.The new edition features a slightly larger format and for the first time, photos in the text and the inclusion of two new maps. Sales of the previous editions have been extremely good, and there's every reason to think that a new Third edition will have an even more enthusiastic reception.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION	ix
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION	xi
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION	xii
1 Geography and Pre-Columbian Peoples	1	(14)
2 Colony and Society	15	(23)
3 Out from the Shadows	38	(16)
4 Transformation and Transition	54	(23)
5 Reform and Revolution in the Colony	77	(20)
6 Between Wars	97	(21)
7 Revolution and Intervention	118	(27)
8 The Structure of the Republic	145	(28)
9 Reform and Revolution in the Republic	173	(37)
10 The Eclipse of Old Cuba	210	(27)
11 Between the Old and the New	237	(20)
12 Socialist Cuba	257	(34)
13 Cuba in the Post-Cold War World	291	(40)
POLITICAL CHRONOLOGY	331	(16)
SELECTIVE GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE	347	(80)
INDEX	427