1st Edition
Understanding Cuba as a Nation From European Settlement to Global Revolutionary Mission
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Making of a Hybrid Culture: Cuba, 1511-1824
Chapter 2: The Sugar Kingdom: 19th Century Cuba
Chapter 3: Military Occupations by the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba: 1899-1958
Chapter 4: The Making of a Socialist Republic: Cuba between 1959 and 2008
Chapter 5: Cuba under Raúl Castro
Conclusions
Select Bibliography of Books in English
Index
Biography
Rafael E. Tarragó is Librarian for Iberian, Ibero-American & Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota Libraries. His research interests include Cuban and Spanish American history and culture.
'A synthetic history of cuba full of suggestions that invite the reader to learn more.' -Luis Miguel García Mora, Fundación Mapfre
'Cuba continues to engage the imagination of North American and European readers as few other Latin American countries. From the native Taínos to Raúl Castro, Understanding Cuba as a Nation covers historical developments in the Island with unusual attention to cultural achievements, economics, and politics. Tarragó offers a narrative that is both accessible to lay readers and rich in historical detail, debunking in the process many ideological preconceptions and historical myths.' - Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, University of Pittsburgh. Editor, Latin American Research Review
