Cubas Revolutionary World

On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of past decades, Castro assured them that this time the real Revolution had arrived. As Jonathan Brown shows in this capacious history of the Cuban Revolution, Castro s words proved prophetic not only for his countrymen but for Latin America and the wider world. Cuba s Revolutionary World examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the twentieth century's most transformative events.

About the author

Jonathan C. Brown is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

As Castro’s democratic reform movement veered off course, a revolution that seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America brought about its tragic opposite. Jonathan C. Brown examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the century’s most transformative events.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan C Brown, Jonathan C. Brown, Brown Jonathan C.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780674971981
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97198-1
• No. of pages: 600
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, Cuba, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions