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Cuba

Ada Ferrer

What does Cuba's history over more than five hundred years look like when told as an American story, closely bound up with the United States?

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Author
Ada Ferrer

Why read it

  • You will see Cuba's story as part of American history, not only a Cold War standoff
  • You will understand why the island's story reaches back long before Fidel Castro
  • You will learn how people's travel and migration between the two countries linked their histories

Who it is for

  • A reader who knows Cuba only through headlines or politics
  • A Cuban American or traveler seeking the longer story
  • Someone puzzled by the long tangle of Cuba and America

Contents

  1. Prologue THERE AND HERE
  2. Part I Dispatches from the First America
  3. Chapter 1 HEAVEN AND HELL
  4. Chapter 2 KEY TO THE INDIES
  5. Chapter 3 COPPER VIRGIN
  6. Part II A COLONY WORTH A KINGDOM
  7. Chapter 4 HAVANA FOR FLORIDA
  8. Chapter 5 MOST FAVORED NATION
  9. Chapter 6 SUGAR’S REVOLUTION
  10. Part III AN EMPIRE FOR SLAVERY
  11. Chapter 7 ADAMS’S APPLE
  12. Chapter 8 TORTURE PLOTS
  13. Chapter 9 DREAMS OF DOMINION
  14. Chapter 10 CIVIL WAR JOURNEYS
  15. PART IV ¡CUBA LIBRE!
  16. Chapter 11 SLAVE, SOLDIER, CITIZEN
  17. Chapter 12 A REVOLUTION FOR THE WORLD
  18. Part V AMERICAN INTERREGNUM
  19. Chapter 13 A WAR RENAMED
  20. Chapter 14 ISLAND OCCUPIED
  21. Part VI STRANGE REPUBLIC
  22. Chapter 15 EMPIRE OF SUGAR
  23. Chapter 16 CITY OF DREAMS
  24. Chapter 17 FRATRICIDE
  25. Chapter 18 BOOM, CRASH, AWAKE
  26. Part VII REPUBLIC, TAKE TWO
  27. Chapter 19 AUTHENTIC MASSES
  28. Chapter 20 NEW CHARTER
  29. Chapter 21 SUITCASES
  30. Part VIII ORIGIN STORIES
  31. Chapter 22 CENTENNIAL SPIRIT
  32. Chapter 23 INSURRECTIONARY LINE
  33. Chapter 24 THE MOUNTAINS RISE
  34. Part IX THE REVOLUTION BEGINS NOW!
  35. Chapter 25 FIRST TIME
  36. Chapter 26 RADICAL NONSTOP
  37. Part X CONFRONTATION
  38. Chapter 27 BATTLE
  39. Chapter 28 BRINK
  40. Part XI HEARTS AND MINDS
  41. Chapter 29 NEW PEOPLE?
  42. Chapter 30 NEW AMERICANS?
  43. Chapter 31 OTHER CUBAS?
  44. Part XII DEPARTURES
  45. Chapter 32 SPECIAL YEARS
  46. Chapter 33 OPEN AND SHUT
  47. Epilogue IF MONUMENTS COULD SPEAK
  48. Photographs

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