Description
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. The usa’s fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over time, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro’s larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has curried favor with it. But what do most Americans in point of fact know about Cuba itself?
In this second edition of the widely hailed Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Julia Sweig updates her concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation–and now includes material from her 2010 interview with Fidel Castro. The new edition covers the key events of the previous few years: Raul Castro’s assumption of power from his brother Fidel, economic and political reforms since Raul came to power, and the changes in US-Cuba relations following the election of Barack Obama. Expansive in coverage and authoritative in scope, the book looks back over Cuba’s history since the Spanish American War before shifting to recent times. Focusing equally on Cuba’s role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the post-Cold War era, and — in the end — the post-Fidel era.
Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it is the best compact reference on Cuba’s internal politics, its regularly fraught relationship with the USA, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW About This Series
Who it’s for:
Busy people with diverse interests, ranging from college students to professionals, who want to inform themselves in a succinct yet authoritative manner about a particular topic.
What’s inside:
An incisive approach to a complex and timely issue, laid out in a straight-forward, question-and-answer format.
Meet Our Authors
Top experts in their given fields, ranging from an Economist correspondent to a director at the Council on Foreign Relations, you’ll be able to accept as true with our authors’ expertise and guidance.
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