Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution / Edition 4

by Louis A. Pi'Arez

Overview

Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology—between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality—is fully investigated as a source of both national tension and competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice. Author Louis A. Pérez, Jr., integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give students a full and fascinating account of Cuba's history, focusing on its struggle for nationality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195392968
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	02/23/2010
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Louis A. Pérez, Jr., is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of The War of 1898 (1998), Cuba in the American Imagination (2008), and On Becoming Cuban (2007).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition ix

Preface to the First Edition xii

1 Geography and Pre-Columbian Peoples 1

2 Colony and Society 15

3 Out from the Shadows 38

4 Transformation and Transition 54

5 Reform and Revolution in the Colony 77

6 Between Wars 97

7 Revolution and Intervention 118

8 The Structure of the Republic 145

9 Reform and Revolution in the Republic 173

10 The Eclipse of Old Cuba 210

11 Between the Old and the New 237

12 Socialist Cuba 257

13 Cuba in the Post-Cold War World 291

Political Chronology 337

Selective Guide to the Literature 355

Index 447