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Cuba, July 2009
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What Everyone Needs To Know
Oxford University Press
July 2009
On Sale: July 7, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 019538380X
EAN: 9780195383805
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Non-Fiction
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959,
Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south
of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical
socialist republic has only grown over the years, 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 kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of
America's leading experts on Cuba and Latin America,
presents a concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the
small island nation's unique place on the world stage over
the past fifty years. Yet it is authoritative as well. Following a scene-setting introduction that describes the
dynamics unleashed since summer 2006 when Fidel Castro
transferred provisional power to his brother Raul, the book
looks backward toward Cuba's history since the Spanish
American War before shifting to more 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-finally-the looming post-Fidel era. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it will serve as
the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its
often fraught relationship with the United States, and its
shifting relationship with the global community.
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