Cuba: A History  32104

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