Cuba: A Short History brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 7 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for scholars, students and general readers a concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars in the field, trace the political, economic, and social development of Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present day. The concluding chapter, updated for this volume, considers the dilemmas and challenges that Castro's Cuba faces in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay that many readers will find useful.
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"Cuba: A Short History, edited by Leslie Bethell, is the best brief history of Cuba available. It is recommended for undergraduate classes and for readers with an interest in a nation that has had a tremendous diplomatic and cultural impact on the United States....As a general introduction, this book is commendable." Thomas Zoumaras, History
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Four chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the Cambridge History of Latin America trace the political, economic and social development of Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century to the current challenges faced by Castro's Cuba in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse.
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Only Academic Historians Could Make Cuba this Boring!,
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I used this book in a Cuban history course that I taught last year, and man did the students hate it. This collection of 4 articles from the multi-volume Cambridge History of Latin America is meant to provide a concise overview of Cuban history. But they begin in the 1600s, missing the first several hundred years, and end in the 1970s, missing the last two pivotal decades. The articles themselves are informative enough, but so boring and poorly written as to make the reader weep. This is an awful book.
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There is such a thing as a TOO SHORT HISTORY,
This review is from: Cuba: A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America) (Paperback)
I was surprised to find a so-called history book should skip the first two hundred years of any country. At the beginning of this "history" we are hurtled into the mid-eighteenth century with absolutely no preamble; no background as to what came before. Where is the history of the discovery of the island, the natives who inhabited it, the process by which we arrived at the 18th century? Add to this the fact that each successive event is treated so lightly, with scant detail and such pompous, overblown language, and you can understand why I simply put it down after a few chapters and have not picked it up since. My advise?: If you really want to learn about Cuba, don't bother with this comic book sketch.
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Yes, it is a "Short Story",
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Nothing like the British (Cambridge University Press) to tell history as they see it fit. This book is an excellent reference book if you use it alongside others. I used it with Argote Freyre's Fulgencio Batista, and Ignacio Ramonet's Fidel Castro, Biografía a Dos Voces to write my soon to be released book: Cuba Libre, "Mentirita"
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The Spanish colony of Cuba in the mid-eighteenth century was a largely forested, half unmapped island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
revolutionary rule, reciprocity treaty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Fidel Castro, Soviet Union, Latin American, Las Villas, North American, Central Committee, Estrada Palma, Sumner Welles, National Assembly, Platt Amendment, Political Bureau, Santiago de Cuba, Council of Ministers, New York, Puerto Rico, Grau San Martin, Pinar del Rio, Alfredo Zayas, Rural Guard, State Department, Sierra Maestra, Anibal Escalante, Carlos Mendieta, Fulgencio Batista New!
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The Spanish colony of Cuba in the mid-eighteenth century was a largely forested, half unmapped island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
revolutionary rule, reciprocity treaty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Fidel Castro, Soviet Union, Latin American, Las Villas, North American, Central Committee, Estrada Palma, Sumner Welles, National Assembly, Platt Amendment, Political Bureau, Santiago de Cuba, Council of Ministers, New York, Puerto Rico, Grau San Martin, Pinar del Rio, Alfredo Zayas, Rural Guard, State Department, Sierra Maestra, Anibal Escalante, Carlos Mendieta, Fulgencio Batista New!
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- Cuban Policy of the United States: Brief History (America & the World) by Lester D. Langley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Closest of Enemies: A Personal and Diplomatic History of the Castro Years by Wayne S. Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar by Fernando Ortiz in Back Matter
- Colonial Spanish America (Cambridge History of Latin America) by Leslie Bethell in Front Matter
- Cuba in Revolution by Rolando E. Bonachea in Back Matter
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- Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami (Religion in America) by Thomas A. Tweed in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites: Identity, Ethnicity, and Tradition in the Modern Church by Darryl Victor Caterine in Back Matter
- A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries (The Cambridge History of Latin) by Leslie Bethell in Front Matter
- The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba by Julie D. Shayne in Back Matter
- Revolutions and History: An Essay in Interpretation by Noel Parker in Back Matter
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