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Subject(s)

• Cuba—History [Browse]
• Cuba—Foreign relations—United States [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—Cuba [Browse]

Related name

• ProQuest (Firm) [Browse]

Summary note

"In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Raúl Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political future. In the United States, Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, the reversal of that policy during Donald Trump's administration, and Joseph Biden's apparent willingness to reinitiate open relations have made the nature of the historic relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. In both countries, the time is ripe for a new reckoning with Cuba's history and its relationship to the United States. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious and moving chronicle of more than five hundred years of Cuban history, reconceived and written for a moment when history itself seems up for grabs. Starting on the eve of the arrival of Columbus and ending with the 2020 US presidential election, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of modern Cuba, with its dramatic history of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade. Throughout, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between Cuba and its neighbor to the north, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways Cuba has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This, then, is a story of Cuba that will also give American readers unexpected insights into the history of their own country. Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on over thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States-as well as the author's own extensive travel in Cuba over the same period-this is a stunning and monumental history of Cuba like no other"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2021).

Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Prologue: There and Here
• Part I: Dispatches from The First America
• Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell
• Chapter 2: Key to the Indies
• Chapter 3: Copper Virgin
• Part II: A Colony Worth a Kingdom
• Chapter 4: Havana for Florida
• Chapter 5: Most Favored Nation
• Chapter 6: Sugar's Revolution
• Part III: An Empire for Slavery
• Chapter 7: Adams's Apple
• Chapter 8: Torture Plots
• Chapter 9: Dreams of Dominion
• Chapter 10: Civil War Journeys
• Part IV: ¡Cuba Libre!
• Chapter 11: Slave, Soldier, Citizen
• Chapter 12: A Revolution for the World
• Part V: American Interregnum
• Chapter 13: A War Renamed
• Chapter 14: Island Occupied
• Part VI: Strange Republic
• Chapter 15: Empire of Sugar
• Chapter 16: City of Dreams
• Chapter 17: Fratricide
• Chapter 18: Boom, Crash, Awake
• Part VII: Republic, Take Two
• Chapter 19: Authentic Masses
• Chapter 20: New Charter
• Chapter 21: Suitcases
• Part VIII: Origin Stories
• Chapter 22: Centennial Spirit
• Chapter 23: Insurrectionary Line
• Chapter 24: The Mountains Rise
• Part IX: The Revolution Begins Now!
• Chapter 25: First Time
• Chapter 26: Radical Nonstop
• Part X: Confrontation
• Chapter 27: Battle
• Chapter 28: Brink
• Part XI: Hearts and Minds
• Chapter 29: New People?
• Chapter 30: New Americans?
• Chapter 31: Other Cubas?
• Part XII: Departures
• Chapter 32: Special Years
• Chapter 33: Open and Shut
• Epilogue: If Monuments Could Speak
• Photographs
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Notes
• Index
• Image Credits
• Copyright

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ISBN

• 9781501154577 ((electronic book))
• 1501154575 ((electronic book))

LCCN

2021020534

OCLC

1250436718

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