General Information

Author/Creator

Thomas, Hugh, 1931-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Harper & Row, 1971.

Physical Description

xxiv, 1696 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Cuba > History.

Cuba.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Hugh Thomas.

Content

Prologue : With Albemarle to Havana, 1762 -- The English expedition -- The Spanish colony -- Sugar and society -- The victors and the Creoles -- Enter North America -- The challenge of Haiti -- Rebellion in South America -- The ever faithful isle -- The world of sugar -- Coffee -- The planters -- The slave merchants -- The slaves -- The decline of slavery -- Captains-general in search of wealth -- The politics of abolitionism -- Manifest destiny -- Annexationism -- Reformism -- The War of 1868 -- The Spanish counter-revolution -- The sugar crisis of the 1880s -- The end of slavery -- Jose Marti -- The new America -- The War of 1895 -- General Weyler -- Cuba and U.S. public opinion -- The Maine -- McKinley and the war -- The Spanish-American War -- San Juan Hill and Santiago -- End of empire -- Cuba prostrate -- The proconsuls 1 : General Brooke -- The proconsuls 2 : General Wood -- The U.S. stake in Cuba, 1899-1902 -- Don Tomas -- The second intervention : Magoon -- Cuba in 1909 -- Gomez and the good life -- The Negro protest -- Menocal -- Sugar, 1906-20 -- The dance of the millions -- The sugar troubles of the 1920s -- Zayas -- Machado -- Sumner Welles -- The fall of Machado. The middle class government -- The Sergeants' Revolution -- Grau's Girondin Revolution -- The Battle of the Hotel Nacional -- The November Revolt -- The counter-revolution -- Batista and the puppet presidents -- Batista and the Communists -- The constitution of 1940 -- Batista : the democratic president -- Grau -- Prio el presidente de la cordialidad -- The fall of Prio -- Batista : 2 -- Fidel Castro : childhood and youth -- Moncada : the idea -- Moncada : the fight -- Indian summer -- The civic dialogue -- Castro in Mexico -- The Granma and the Sierra Maestra -- Herbert Matthews goes to the Sierra -- The attack on the palace -- War in the Sierra (March-May 1957) -- The U.S. enters the controversy -- Miami and Santiago -- The naval mutiny at Cienfuegos -- The arms embargo -- The strike of 9 April -- Batista's Big Push of May 1958 -- The collapse -- How Batista fell -- Springs of victory -- Castro and the Americas in 1959 -- L'illusion lyrique -- First shadows -- The island -- The class structure of Cuba -- Black Cuba -- The church -- Education -- Sugar -- Tobacco and other industries. The economy : labour -- The economy : the central neurosis -- Castro in America -- Agrarian reform : politics and crisis -- The eclipse of the liberals -- A sword is drawn -- The end of capitalist Cuba -- The U.S. prepares for battle -- Cuba socialista -- Battle of Cochinos Bay -- Between the crises -- The missle crisis -- The Utopians -- The Ten Million Ton Harvest and its implications -- The new men -- The guardians -- New friends and old -- The pursuit of freedom -- Appendices. The Cuban oligarchy -- Cuban governors and presidents -- Who were the Cuban Indians? -- Kennion's slave concession -- Estimated Cuban slave imports -- Outfit of a slave ship, 1825 -- Slave ships from Havana, 1825 -- Affidavit of Lieutenant Nott -- Chinese imports to Cuba, 1847-73 -- The last slave journey across the Atlantic, 1865 -- The attack on Moncada and Bayamo -- The state of agriculture in 1959 -- Cuban and world sugar production, 1770-1970 -- World raw sugar prices, 1900-1962 -- Glossary -- General bibliography.

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0060142596

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	972.91 THO		General Stacks	-

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