Cuba
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Cuba
(What everyone needs to know)
Oxford University Press, c2012
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Previous ed.: 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 curried favor with it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? 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. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it is 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. On the first edition: "Excellent and even-handed...It packs a phenomenal amount of complex history into clear and simple prose." -Los Angeles Times "Splendid...Sweig displays a talent for succinctness and clarity, as well as a subtle, deep knowledge of Cuban affairs." -Foreign Affairs
目次
- 1. Before the 1959 Revolution: Cuban National Identity and the Great Powers
- 2. The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1951-1991
- 3. The Cuban Revolution After the Cold War, 1991-2006
- 4. After Fidel, Under Raul
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