Cuba libre : a 500-year quest for independence /
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. 1492-1598
- Columbus arrives and Spain colonizes Cuba, 1492-1550
- Sugar and slavery
- 1868-1898: Struggle for independence
- Cuban independence war and U.S. occupation
- From occupation to "good neighbor"
- 1934-1958: playground of the Western world and rise of Batista
- 1953-1958: The revolutionary struggle
- Part 2. 1959-1989
- The quest for sovereignty
- Consolidating the revolution: culture and politics
- Consolidating the revolution: Economic reforms, new institutions, and basic needs
- Bay of Pigs/Playa Girón
- The missile crisis
- Foreign policy in the 1960s: Exporting revolution, Chinese flirtations, and Soviet tensions
- 1963-1975: internal adjustments and advancing equality
- 1970s: Becoming a third world leader
- 1980: Mariel exodus
- a warning signal
- 1981-1990: Change and rectification at home and abroad
- Part 3. 1990-2016
- 1990-2000: The "special period" in a time of peace
- The Cuban diaspora and racial inequality
- 1995-1998: Helms-Burton, U.S.-Cuban relations, and terrorism
- 1998-2000: the Pope goes to Cuba, Elián goes to Miami
- 2001-2006: The search for a viable strategy
- 2006-2009: the transition from Fidel to Raúl Castro
- 2010-2016: Securing Cuba's independence through economic change
- 2010-2016: Securing Cuba's independence through foreign policy
- Change, continuity, and the future
- Appendix: Chronology of major events.