Cuba: What Everyone Needs to KnowOxford University Press, USA, 6 juin 2009 - 304 pages Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of America's leading experts on Cuba and Latin America, presents a concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years. Yet it is authoritative as well. Following a scene-setting introduction that describes the dynamics unleashed since summer 2006 when Fidel Castro transferred provisional power to his brother Raul, the book looks backward toward Cuba's history since the Spanish American War before shifting to more 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 looming post-Fidel era. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it will serve as the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community. |
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... Cuba's human rights record during this period ? Why did King Sugar continue to dominate Cuba's after the revolution ? economy What were the main economic features of Cuba's integration with the Soviet bloc ? 64 5999 65 68 770 What was ...
... Cuba's human rights record during this period ? Why did King Sugar continue to dominate Cuba's after the revolution ? economy What were the main economic features of Cuba's integration with the Soviet bloc ? 64 5999 65 68 770 What was ...
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... Cuba's armed internationalism ? How did Cuba's presence in southern Africa evolve ? 112 114 What was Cuba's role in the Horn of Africa and the Ethiopia / Somalia conflict ? 115 How did Cuba's foreign policy in the Middle East evolve ...
... Cuba's armed internationalism ? How did Cuba's presence in southern Africa evolve ? 112 114 What was Cuba's role in the Horn of Africa and the Ethiopia / Somalia conflict ? 115 How did Cuba's foreign policy in the Middle East evolve ...
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... Cuba cope with HIV/AIDS? 146 How did human rights fare more generally during this period? 147 What was the Varela ... Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations? How did the Elián González affair influence Cuba's domestic politics? Does Cuban art and ...
... Cuba cope with HIV/AIDS? 146 How did human rights fare more generally during this period? 147 What was the Varela ... Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations? How did the Elián González affair influence Cuba's domestic politics? Does Cuban art and ...
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... Cuba policy take shape during Bill Clinton's second term? 174 How did the death of Jorge Mas Canosa affect the Cuban American community? 177 How did the Elián González episode affect the end of the Clinton presidency, the 2000 ...
... Cuba policy take shape during Bill Clinton's second term? 174 How did the death of Jorge Mas Canosa affect the Cuban American community? 177 How did the Elián González episode affect the end of the Clinton presidency, the 2000 ...
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... Cuba's provisional leadership respond as the reality of Fidel's absence took hold ? 212 How was Raul Castro elected president of Cuba ? 213 Since becoming ... Cuba ? 241 CUBA IN THE WORLD 244 Did the succession arouse any Contents xiii.
... Cuba's provisional leadership respond as the reality of Fidel's absence took hold ? 212 How was Raul Castro elected president of Cuba ? 213 Since becoming ... Cuba ? 241 CUBA IN THE WORLD 244 Did the succession arouse any Contents xiii.
Table des matières
Cuba before 1959 | 1 |
The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War 195991 | 36 |
The Cuban Revolution after the Cold War 19912006 | 126 |
After Fidel under Raul | 207 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Cuba:What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to Know Julia E Sweig Aucun aperçu disponible - 2009 |
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