Name: Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom By Hugh Thomas
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Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom by Hugh Thomas

This first-time paperback edition, now updated, describes and analyzes Cuba's history from the English capture of Havana in 1762 through Spanish colonialism, American imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, and the Missile Crisis to Fidel Castro's defiant but precarious present state.

Prologue With Albemarle to Havana, 1762 * The English Expedition * The Spanish Colony * Sugar and Society * The Victors and the Creoles The Great Leap Forward, 1763-1825 * Enter North America * The Challenge of Haiti * Rebellion in South America * The Ever-Faithful Isle The Golden Age, 1825-68 * The World of Sugar * Coffee * The Planters * The Slave Merchants * The Slaves * The Decade of Slavery The Political Struggle, 1823-98 * Captains-General in Search of Wealth * The Politics of Abolitionism * Mainfest Destiny * Annexationism * Reformism * The War of 1868:I * The War of 1868: II * The Spanish Counter-Revolution * The Sugar Crisis of the 1880s * The End of Slavery * Jos Mart * The New America * The War of 1895 * General Weyler * Cuba and U.S. Public Opinion * The Maine * McKinley and the War * The Spanish-American War * San Juan Hill and Santiago * End of Empire From Occupation to Occupation * Cuba Prostrate * The Proconsuls, I: General Brooke * The Proconsuls, II: General Wood * The U.S. Stake in Cuba, 1899-1902 * Don Toms * The Second Intervention: Magoon The Young Republic, 1909-32 * Cuba in 1909 * Gmez and the Good Life * The Negro Project * Menocal * Sugar, 1906-20 * The Dance of the Millions * The Sugar Troubles of the 1920s * Zayas * Machado: I * Machado: II The Revolution of 1933 * Summer Welles * The Fall of Machado * The Middle-Class Government * The Sergeants Revolution * Graus Girondin Revolution * The Battle of the Hotel Nacional * The November Revolt * The Counter-Revolution The Age of Democracy, 1934-52 * Batista and the Puppet President * Batista and the Communists * The Constitution of 1940 * Batista: The Democratic President * Grau * Pro el Presidente de la Cordialidad * The Fall of Pro 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 Gramma and the Sierra * Herbert Matthews goes to the Sierra * The Attack on the Palace * War in the Sierra (March-May 1957) * The U.S. enters the Controversy * Miami and Santiago * The Naval Mutiny at Cienfuegos * The Arms Embargo * The Strike of 9 April * Batistas Big Push of May 1958 * The Collapse LIllusion Lyrique, 1959 * Springs of Victory * Castro and the Americas in 1959 * LIllusion Lyrique * First Shadows Old Cuba at Sunset * The Island * The Class Structure of Cuba * Black Cuba * The Church * Education * Sugar * Tobacco and other Industries * The Economy: Labour * The Economy: the Central Neurosis 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 U.S. 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 Appendices * The Cuban Oligarchy * Cuban Governors and Presidents * Who were the Cuban Indians? * Kennions Slave Concession * Estimated Cuban Slave Imports * Outfit of a Slave Ship, 1825 * Slave Ships from Havana, 1825 * Affidavit of Lieutenant Nott * Chinese Imports to Cuba, 1847-73 * The Last Slave Journey across the Atlantic, 1865 * The Attack on Moncada and Bayamo * The State of Agriculture in 1959 * Cuban and World Sugar Production, 1770-1970 * World Raw Sugar Prices, 1900-1962

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9780306808272

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0306808277

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Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom by Hugh Thomas

Author

Hugh Thomas

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Hachette Books

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19980321

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1776

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