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Cuba: A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America)
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by Leslie Bethell
Sales Rank: 809975
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Cover Type: Paperback with 208 pages
Published by: Cambridge University PressEdition: 1st Edition March 26, 1993
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0521436826
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521436823
Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 8.8 ounces
Product Review
"Cuba: A Short History, edited by Leslie Bethell, is the best brief history of Cuba available. It is recommended for undergraduate classes and for readers with an interest in a nation that has had a awesome diplomatic and cultural impact on the United States.As a general introduction, this book is commendable." Thomas Zoumaras, History
Product Description
Cuba: A Short History brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 7 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for scholars, students and general readers a concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars in the field, trace the political, economic, and social development of Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present day. The concluding chapter, updated for this volume, considers the dilemmas and challenges that Castro's Cuba faces in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay that many readers will find useful.
Reader Reviews
I was surprised to find a so-called history book should skip the first two hundred years of any country. At the beginning of this "history" we are hurtled into the mid-eighteenth century with absolutely no preamble; no background as to what came before. Where is the history of the discovery of the island, the natives who inhabited it, the process by which we arrived at the 18th century? Add to this the fact that each successive event is treated so lightly, with scant detail and such pompous, overblown language, and you can understand why I simply put it down after a few chapters and have not picked it up since. My advise?: If you really want to learn about Cuba, don't bother with this comic book sketch.
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