Cuba: From Conquistador to Castro

✍ Scribed by Geoff Simons (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 429
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a detailed history of Cuba from before the arrival of Columbus to 1995. Topics covered include: the Spanish colonisation, the role of Christianity, slavery, the US interventions, the Mafia connection, the Castro revolution, and Cuba's struggle to survive in the so-called 'Special Period' following the collapse of the Socialist bloc. Particular attention is given to the prolonged US efforts to overthrow the Castro regime, involving the United States in violations of international law and crimes against humanity.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Special Period....Pages 3-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The Imperial Impact....Pages 65-95
The Slave Society....Pages 96-127
The Violent Struggle....Pages 128-163
The US Involvement....Pages 164-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Towards Revolution....Pages 225-278
A New Era....Pages 279-336
Back Matter....Pages 337-416

✦ Subjects

Latin American Politics; History of the Americas