- Preface
- Note on Currencies
- Prologue: WIth Albemarle to Havana, 1762
- The English Expedition
- The Spanish Colony
- Sugar and Society
- The Victors and the Creoles
- Book One: The Great Leap Forward, 1763-1825
- Enter North America
- The Challenge of Haiti
- Rebellion in South America
- The Ever-faithful Isle
- Book Two: The Golden Age, 1825-68
- The World of Sugar
- The Planters
- The Slave Merchants
- The Slaves
- The Decline of Slavery
- Book Three: The Political Struggle, 1823-98
- Captains-General in Search of Wealth
- Manifest Destiny
- The War of 1868: I
- The War of 1868: II
- The Spanish Counter-Revolution
- The Sugar Crisis of the 1880s
- The New America
- The War of 1895
- General Weyler
- Cuba and US Public Opinion
- The Maine
- McKinley and the War
- The Spanish-American War
- San Juan Hill and Santiago
- End of Empire
- Book Four: From Occupation to Occupation, 1899-1909
- Cuba Prostrate
- The Proconsuls I: General Brooke
- The Proconsuls II: General Wood
- The US Stake in Cuba, 1899-1902
- Don Tomás
- The Second Intervention: Magoon
- Book Five: The Young Republic
- Cuba in 1909
- Gómez and the Good Life
- The Negro Protest
- Menocal
- Sugar, 1906-20
- The ‘Dance of the Millions’
- The Sugar Troubles of the 1920s
- Zayas
- Machado: I
- Machado: II
- Book Six: The Revolution of 1933
- Summer Welles
- The Fall of Machado
- The Middle-class Government
- The Sergeants’ Revolution
- Grau’s Girondin Revolution
- The Battle of the Hotel Nacional
- The November Revolt
- The Counter-Revolution
- Book Seven: The Age of Democracy, 1934-52
- Batista and the Puppet Presidents
- Batista and the Communists
- The Constitution of 1940
- Batistia: The Democratic President
- Grau
- Prio, ‘el Presidente de la Cordialidad’
- The Fall of Prio
- Book Eight: The Struggle, 1952-9
- Batista: II
- Fidel Castro: Childhood and Youth
- Moncada: The Idea
- Moncada: The Fight
- Indian Summer
- The Civic Dialogue
- Castro in Mexico
- The Granma and the Sierra Maestra
- Herbert Matthews goes to the Sierra
- The Attack on the Palace
- War in the Sierra (March to May 1957)
- The US enters the Controversy
- Miami and Santiago
- The Naval Mutiny at Cienfuegos
- The Arms Embargo
- The Strike of 9 April
- Batista’s ‘Big Push’ of May 1958
- The Collapse
- How Batista Fell
- Book Nine: Victory: L’Illusion Lyrique
- Springs of Victory
- Castro and the Americas in 1959
- L’Illusion Lyrique
- First Shadows
- Book Ten: Old Cuba at Sunset
- The Island
- The Class Structure of Cuba
- Black Cuba
- The Church
- Sugar
- Tobacco and other Industries
- The Economy: Labour
- The Economy: the Central Neurosis
- Book Eleven: The Clash, 1959-62
- Castro in America
- Agrarian Reform: Politics and Crisis
- The Eclipse of the Liberals
- A Sword is Drawn
- The End of Capitalist Cuba
- The US Prepares for Battle
- Cuba Socialista: I
- Cuba Socialista: II
- Battle of Cochinos Bay
- Between the Crises
- The Missile Crisis: I
- The Missile Crisis: II
- The Missile Crisis: III
- Epilogue
- The Utopians
- The ‘Ten Million Ton Harvest’ and its Implications
- The New Men
- The Guardians
- New Friends and Old
- The Pursuit of Freedom
- Afterword
- Appendices
- Cuban Governors and Presidents
- The Last Slave Journey across the Atlantic, 1865
- Cuban and World Sugar Production, 1770-1970
- World Raw Sugar Prices, 1900-1962
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