Cuba libre : a 500-year quest for independence /: a 500-year quest for independence. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner.
• Authors: Brenner, Philip; Eisner, Peter
• Contents: Preface; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part I: 1492–1598 ; Chapter 1: Columbus Arrives and Spain Colonizes Cuba, 1492–1550; Chapter 2: Sugar and Slavery; Chapter 3: Struggle for Independence, 1868–1898; Chapter 4: Cuban Independence War and US Occupation; Chapter 5: From Occupation to “Good Neighbor” Chapter 6: Playground of the Western World and the Rise of Batista, 1934–1958; Chapter 7: The Revolutionary Struggle, 1953–1958; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part II: 1959–1989 ; Chapter 8: The Quest for Sovereignty; Chapter 9: Consolidating the Revolution: Culture and Politics; Chapter 10: Consolidating the Revolution: Economic Reforms, New Institutions, and Basic Needs; Chapter 11: Bay of Pigs/Playa Girón; Chapter 12: The Missile Crisis; Chapter 13: Foreign Policy in the 1960s: Exporting Revolution, Chinese Flirtations, and Soviet Tensions; Chapter 14: Internal Adjustments and Advancing Equality, 1963–1975; Chapter 15: Becoming a Third World Leader, 1970s; Chapter 16: Mariel Exodus—A Warning Signal, 1980; Chapter 17: Change and Rectification at Home and Abroad, 1980s; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Part III: 1990–2016 ; Chapter 18: The “Special Period” in a Time of Peace, 1990–2000; Chapter 19: The Cuban Diaspora and Racial Inequality; Chapter 20: Helms-Burton, US-Cuban Relations, and Terrorism, 1995–1998; Chapter 21: The Pope Goes to Cuba; Elián Goes to Miami, 1998–2000; Chapter 22: The Search for a Viable Strategy, 2001–2006; Chapter 23: The Transition from Fidel to Raúl Castro, 2006–2009; Chapter 24: Securing Cuba’s Independence through Economic Change, 2010–2016; Chapter 25: Securing Cuba’s Independence through Foreign Policy, 2010–2016; Chapter 26: Change, Continuity, and the Future; ; Appendix: Chronology of Key Events; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
• Subjects: 972.91; History: Modern / General; History: Latin America / General; History: Revolutionary; Cuba -- History; Cuba -- Social conditions; Cuba -- Autonomy and independence movements
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780742566712
• Related ISBNs: 9780742566699; 9780742566705
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