Cuba - What Everyone Needs to Know

Zusatztext Splendid...Sweig displays a talent for succinctness and clarity, as well as a subtle, deep knowledge of Cuban affairs. Informationen zum Autor Julia E. Sweig is Senior Research Fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the award-winning author of several other books, including inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, for which she won the American Historical Association Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar. She has been traveling to and writing about Cuba since 1984. She lives with her family outside of Washington, DC. Klappentext Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd edition, 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. Zusammenfassung Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know,3rd edition, 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Cuba Before 1959 2. The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1951-91 3. The Cuban Revolution After the Cold War, 1991-2006 4. After Fidel, Under Raul 5. A Changing Cuba Under Raul Castro's Presidency 6. December 17, 2014 and Beyond Suggested Reading Index

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Table of Contents


• Acknowledgments


• Foreword


• Introduction


• 1. Cuba Before 1959


• 2. The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1951-91


• 3. The Cuban Revolution After the Cold War, 1991-2006


• 4. After Fidel, Under Raul


• 5. A Changing Cuba Under Raul Castro's Presidency


• 6. December 17, 2014 and Beyond


• Suggested Reading


• Index

Bericht

Excellent and... evenhanded.... [It] packs a phenomenal amount of complex history into clear and simple prose. Los Angeles Times (review of the first edition)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Julia Sweig, Julia (Research Fellow Sweig, Julia E Sweig, Julia E. Sweig, Sweig Julia
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9780190620370
• ISBN: 978-0-19-062037-0
• Seiten: 384
• Serien: What Everyone Needs to Know; What Everyone Needs to Know^DRG
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Zeitgeschichte (1945 bis 1989); Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cuba, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)