Cuba : what everyone needs to know / Julia E. Sweig.

Author
Sweig, Julia [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed.
Published/​Created
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Description
xxvi, 305 pages ; 21 cm

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      Summary note
      "In this second edition of the widely hailed 'Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, ' Julia Sweig updates her concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation--and now includes material from her 2010 interview with Fidel Castro. The new edition covers the key events of the last few years: Raul Castro's assumption of power from his brother Fidel, economic and political reforms since Raul came to power, and the changes in US-Cuba relations following the election of Barack Obama. Expansive in coverage and authoritative in scope, the book looks back over Cuba's history since the Spanish American War before shifting to recent times. Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the post-Cold War era, and -- finally -- the post-Fidel era."-- From publisher's description.
      Notes
      Previous ed.: 2009.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-283) and index.
      Contents
      • Cuba before 1959
      • The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1959-91
      • The Cuban Revolution after the Cold War, 1991-2006
      • After Fidel, Under Raul
      • -- Domestic
      • U.S.-Cuba
      • Cuba in the world
      • A changing Cuba under Raul Castro's presidency.
      ISBN
      • 9780199896707 ((pbk.))
      • 0199896704 ((pbk.))
      OCLC
      793686388
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