Cuba: A New HistoryYale University Press, 2005 M01 1 - 384 pages This new look at the history of Cuba illuminates the island's entire revolutionary past as well as the most recent decades of the Castro regime Events in Fidel Castro's island nation often command international attention and just as often inspire controversy. Impassioned debate over situations as diverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Elián Gonzáles affair is characteristic not only of modern times but of centuries of Cuban history. In this concise and up-to-date book, British journalist Richard Gott casts a fresh eye on the history of the Caribbean island from its pre-Columbian origins to the present day. He provides a European perspective on a country that is perhaps too frequently seen solely from the American point of view. The author emphasizes such little-known aspects of Cuba's history as its tradition of racism and violence, its black rebellions, the survival of its Indian peoples, and the lasting influence of Spain. The book also offers an original look at aspects of the Revolution, including Castro's relationship with the Soviet Union, military exploits in Africa, and his attempts to promote revolution in Latin America and among American blacks. In a concluding section, Gott tells the extraordinary story of the Revolution's survival in the post-Soviet years. |
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... Spain's fresh interest in Cuba , 1763-1791 42. The slave rebellion in Saint - Domingue , 1791 44. The sharp increase in the slave population , 1763-1841 46. The first zephyrs of independence , 1795-1824 48 Powerful voices advocate white ...
... Spain 118. A Republic denied to blacks : Evaristo Estenoz and the black massacre of 1912 120. A Republic for gamblers : Mario Menocal and Bert Crowder 125 A Republic under dictatorship : Gerardo Machado , the tropical Mussolini , 1925 ...
... Spain , many sailed from the Canary Islands . Others came from the rest of Europe , indeed from all the countries of the former Habsburg empire - from Spain , Italy , France , Austria , Poland , Holland - as well as from Scandinavia ...
... Spain in 1898. Their avowed aim of ' whitening ' the population , and keeping the white settlers numerically on top , was largely successful . Waves of immigrants continued to arrive in Cuba from Spain until the early 1930s ( including ...
... Spain was finally forced out of Cuba in 1898 , three years after the outbreak of the final independence war in 1895 ... Spain's final exit from Cuba that year , and the United States ' subsequent withdrawal in 1902 , created no relief ...
Contents
IV | 11 |
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XI | 41 |
XII | 42 |
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XLVII | 186 |
XLVIII | 188 |
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L | 195 |
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LIII | 215 |
XIII | 44 |
XIV | 46 |
XV | 48 |
XVI | 52 |
XVII | 57 |
XVIII | 59 |
XIX | 64 |
XX | 67 |
XXI | 71 |
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XXIII | 77 |
XXIV | 81 |
XXV | 84 |
XXVI | 88 |
XXVII | 90 |
XXVIII | 93 |
XXIX | 97 |
XXX | 104 |
XXXI | 110 |
XXXII | 113 |
XXXIII | 118 |
XXXIV | 120 |
XXXV | 125 |
XXXVI | 129 |
XXXVII | 135 |
XXXVIII | 142 |
XXXIX | 147 |
XL | 154 |
XLI | 165 |
XLII | 172 |
XLIII | 175 |
XLIV | 178 |
XLV | 181 |