The Cuban Revolution Origins, Course, and Legacy
ISBN: 9780195367089 | 0195367081
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/7/2011
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This timely and provocative study provides a reexamination of the Cuban revolution and places it firmly in a historical context. Beginning with the inauguration of the republic in 1902 and addressing Castro's triumphant entry into Santiago de Cuba in 1959,The Cuban Revolutionhighlights the factors that made Cuba susceptible to revolution, including its one-crop (sugar) economy and U.S. interference in Cuban affairs. While identifying radical nationalism--the defense of national sovereignty and social justice--as a legitimate factor behind the r... MORE
Tables
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acronyms
1. Mediated Sovereignty, Monoculture, and Development
Classic Dependence in Crisis
Reformism in the Making, 1927-1958
State and Society
Standards of Living
Women in Prerevolutionary Cuba
The Cuba That Might Have Been
2. The First Republic
Politics at the Dawn of Independence
The War of 1895 Comes to an End
The Civic March (April 20-May 11, 1902)
Cri... MORE
Marifeli Pérez-Stable is Professor of Sociology at Florida International University.
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