Castro

by Balfour,Sebastian

• ISBN13: 9781405873185
• ISBN10: 1405873183
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317864134
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781405873185
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

A study in how Castro gained and held power for over 50 years. Completely revised and updated to take into account events of recent years Looks at the renewed crackdown on dissidents in Cuba from the mid-1990s onwards Examines the major geopolitical reconfiguration of Latin America in the late 1990s, and the new Cuban-Venezuelan relationship under Hugo Chavez Takes into account the effects of the Helms Burton Act and the continuing US embargo Succinctly analysisesthe Cuban economy in the first decade of the new millennium

Author Biography

Sebastian Balfour is Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published widely on twentieth-century Spanish history and on the links between Spain and Cuba.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. vi
Preface to the Third Edition	p. vii
Prologue	p. 1
Pictures of the Past, Visions of the Future	p. 5
The Rebel	p. 19
Rise to Power	p. 33
Defying the Colossus	p. 58
The Grand Illusion	p. 74
The Revolutionary Godfather	p. 98
The World Statesman	p. 112
Straightening the Rudder	p. 135
A Special Period	p. 150
Autumn of the Revolutionary Patriarch	p. 168
Epilogue: Castro's Legacy	p. 183
Bibliographical Essay	p. 197
Maps	p. 204
Index	p. 207
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