Cuba : what everyone needs to know

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Label

Cuba : what everyone needs to know

Title remainder

what everyone needs to know

Statement of responsibility

Julia E. Sweig

Creator

• trueSweig, Julia

Subject

• Cuba
• trueCuba -- Foreign relations -- United States
• Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959
• Buitenlandse politiek
• trueCuba -- Politics and government -- 1990-
• Politieke geschiedenis
• trueUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba
• trueCuba -- Politics and government -- 1959-1990

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

972.9106/4

Index

index present

LC call number

F1788

LC item number

.S955 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography