Heroes, martyrs, and political messiahs in revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958 /
A leading scholar sheds light on the experiences of ordinary Cubans in the unseating of dictator Fulgencio Batista In this important and timely volume, one of today's foremost experts on Cuban history and politics fills a significant gap in the literature, illuminating how Cuba's sovereign...
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : A history that dare not be told: political culture and the making of revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958. Cuba on the verge: martyrdom, political culture, and civic activism, 1946-1951
- El último aldabonazo: Fulgencio Batista's "revolution" and renewed struggle for a democratic Cuba, 1952-1953
- Los muchachos del Moncada: civic mobilization and democracy's last stand, 1953-1954
- Civic activism and the legitimation of armed struggle against Batista, 1955-1956
- Complicit Communists, student commandos, fidelistas, and civil war, 1956-1957
- Clandestinos, guerrillas, and the making of a messiah in the Sierra Maestra, 1957-1958
- Epilogue : Revolutionary Cuba: December 1958 and beyond. Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.