by Leslie Bethell (Editor)
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.
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'Cuba: A Short History' brings together chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of 'The Cambridge History' to provide in a single volume an economic, social and political history of Cuba since the middle of the eighteenth century.