Cuba Libre A Brief History of Cuba

by Dosal, Paul J.

• ISBN13: 9780882952468
• ISBN10: 0882952463
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

As a work intended as concise supplementary reading for undergraduates, the general pattern of the series is a smashing success -- relating the fascinating history of Cuba in 150 pages of lively narrative -- one that will set the tone for the volumes to follow. In its selection of facts and figures and steadily paced story line, this succinct history, from first contact with Europeans to the present, will appeal to students and instructors alike as interesting and informative reading for the Latin American and World History surveys, as well as specialised courses in Cuban History or Latin American-US Relations.

Author Biography

Paul J. Dosal, born and raised in Tampa is a fourth-generation Cuban American, a descendant of the cigar makers who founded Ybor City in the late nineteenth century. He received his Ph.D. in History from Tulane University in 1987 and taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1987-95) before returning to his home town to teach at the University of South Florida. He has published Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala, 1899-1944 (1993), Power in Transition: The Rise of Guatemala’s Industrial Oligarchy, 1871-1994 (1995); and Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956-1967 (2003). He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Latin American Civilization, Revolutions in Latin America, Cuba, and United States Relations with Latin America.

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S FOREWORD	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
PREFACE	1	(3)
CHAPTER ONE: The Key to the New World, 1492-1825	4	(19)
Conquest and Colonization	6	(2)
International Rivalry in the Caribbean	8	(3)
The British Occupation of Havana	11	(4)
The Emergence of Cuban Nationalism	15	(8)
CHAPTER TWO: The Wars for Independence, 1825-1898	23	(19)
Sugar and Slavery	24	(6)
The Ten Years War, 1868-1878	30	(4)
Between Wars, 1878-1895	34	(2)
The Cuban War for Independence, 1895-1898	36	(6)
CHAPTER THREE: The First Republic, 1898-1934	42	(21)
The Politics of the First Republic, 1902-1933	45	(3)
The Dance of the Millions	48	(5)
Cubanidad	53	(3)
The Revolution of 1933	56	(7)
CHAPTER FOUR: The Second Republic, 1934-1958	63	(20)
The Politics of the Second Republic, 1934-1952	64	(3)
The Batistato, 1952-1958	67	(5)
Americanization and Cubanidad	72	(4)
The Insurrection	76	(7)
CHAPTER FIVE: The Revolution: 1959-1970	83	(22)
Consolidating the Revolution, 1959-1960	85	(3)
Defining the Revolution, 1960-1961	88	(5)
Defending the Revolution, 1961-1962	93	(4)
Revolution with Pachanga, 1963-1970	97	(8)
CHAPTER SIX: The Last Revolutionary: 1970-2005	105	(20)
The Institutional Revolution, 1970-1980	106	(5)
Race and Culture in Revolutionary Cuba	111	(5)
Women in Revolutionary Cuba	116	(4)
The Special Period, 1990-2005	120	(5)
CONCLUSION	125	(3)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY	128	(13)
INDEX	141