Cuba : between reform and revolution

Spanning the history of the island from pre-Columbian times to the present, this highly acclaimed survey examines Cuba's political and economic development within the context of its international relations and continuing struggle for self-determination. The dualism that emerged in Cuban ideology - between liberal constructs of patria and radical formulations of nationality - is fully investigated as a source of both national tension and competing notions of liberty, equality, and justice. Pérez integrates local and provincial developments with issues of class, race, and gender to give readers a full and fascinating account of Cuba's history, focusing on its struggle for nationality.This fourth edition features the latest research on Cuba. The political chronology has been revised and updated and the extensive bibliography has been both condensed, where necessary, and expanded to highlight the scholarship of the past decade.

• Preface to the Fourth Edition p. ix
• Preface to the First Edition p. xii
• 1 Geography and Pre-Columbian Peoples p. 1
• 2 Colony and Society p. 15
• 3 Out from the Shadows p. 38
• 4 Transformation and Transition p. 54
• 5 Reform and Revolution in the Colony p. 77
• 6 Between Wars p. 97
• 7 Revolution and Intervention p. 118
• 8 The Structure of the Republic p. 145
• 9 Reform and Revolution in the Republic p. 173
• 10 The Eclipse of Old Cuba p. 210
• 11 Between the Old and the New p. 237
• 12 Socialist Cuba p. 257
• 13 Cuba in the Post-Cold War World p. 291
• Political Chronology p. 337
• Selective Guide to the Literature p. 355
• Index p. 447