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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
Note on Currencies
Cuba
Prologue: With Albemarle to Havana, 1762
1. The English Expedition
2. The Spanish Colony
3. Sugar and Society
4. The Victors and the Creoles
Book One: The Great Leap Forward, 1763–1825
5. Enter North America
6. The Challenge of Haiti
7. Rebellion in South America
8. The Ever-Faithful Isle
Book Two: The Golden Age, 1825–68
9. The World of Sugar
10. The Planters
11. The Slave Merchants
12. The Slaves
13. The Decline of Slavery
Book Three: The Political Struggle, 1823–98
14. Captains-General in Search of Wealth
15. Manifest Destiny
16. The War of 1868: I
17. The War of 1868: II
18. The Spanish Counter-Revolution
19. The Sugar Crisis of the 1880s
20. The New America
21. The War of 1895
22. General Weyler
23. Cuba and US Public Opinion
24. The Maine
25. McKinley and the War
26. The Spanish–American War
27. San Juan Hill and Santiago
28. End of Empire
Book Four: From Occupation to Occupation, 1899–1909
29. Cuba Prostrate
30. The Proconsuls I: General Brooke
31. The Proconsuls II: General Wood
32. The US Stake in Cuba, 1899–1902
33. Don Tomás
34. The Second Intervention: Magoon
Book Five: The Young Republic, 1909–32
35. Cuba in 1909
36. Gómez and the Good Life
37. The Negro Protest
38. Menocal
39. Sugar, 1906–20
40. The ‘Dance of the Millions’
41. The Sugar Troubles of the 1920s
42. Zayas
43. Machado: I
44. Machado: II
Book Six: The Revolution of 1933
45. Sumner Welles
46. The Fall of Machado
47. The Middle-Class Government
48. The Sergeants’ Revolution
49. Grau’s Girondin Revolution
50. The Battle of the Hotel Nacional
51. The November Revolt
52. The Counter-Revolution
Book Seven: The Age of Democracy, 1934–52
53. Batista and the Puppet Presidents
54. Batista and the Communists
55. The Constitution of 1940
56. Batista: The Democratic President
57. Grau
58. Prío, ‘el Presidente de la Cordialidad’
59. The Fall of Prío
Book Eight: The Struggle, 1952–9
60. Batista: II
61. Fidel Castro: Childhood and Youth
62. Moncada: The Idea
63. Moncada: The Fight
64. Indian Summer
65. The Civic Dialogue
66. Castro in Mexico
67. The Granma and the Sierra Maestra
68. Herbert Matthews Goes to the Sierra
69. The Attack on the Palace
70. War in the Sierra (March to May 1957)
71. The US Enters the Controversy
72. Miami and Santiago
73. The Naval Mutiny at Cienfuegos
74. The Arms Embargo
75. The Strike of 9 April
76. Batista’s ‘Big Push’ of May 1958
77. The Collapse
78. How Batista Fell
Book Nine: Victory: L’Illusion Lyrique, 1959
79. Springs of Victory
80. Castro and the Americas in 1959
81. L’Illusion Lyrique
82. First Shadows
Book Ten: Old Cuba at Sunset
83. The Island
84. The Class Structure of Cuba
85. Black Cuba
86. The Church
87. Sugar
88. Tobacco and other Industries
89. The Economy: Labour
90. The Economy: The Central Neurosis
Book Eleven: The Clash, 1959–62
91. Castro in America
92. Agrarian Reform: Politics and Crisis
93. The Eclipse of the Liberals
94. A Sword is Drawn
95. The End of Capitalist Cuba
96. The US Prepares for Battle
97. Cuba Socialista: I
98. Cuba Socialista: II
99. Battle of Cochinos Bay
100. Between the Crises
101. The Missile Crisis: I
102. The Missile Crisis: II
103. The Missile Crisis: III
Epilogue
104. The Utopians
105. The ‘Ten Million Ton Harvest’ and its Implications
106. The New Men
107. The Guardians
108. New Friends and Old
109. The Pursuit of Freedom
Afterword
Illustrations
Appendices
I. Cuban Governors and Presidents
II. The Last Slave Journey across the Atlantic, 1865
III. Cuban and World Sugar Production, 1770–1970
IV. World Raw Sugar Prices, 1900–1962
Glossary
Bibliographical Note
General Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Follow Penguin
Copyright Page
Footnotes
Prologue: With Albemarle to Havana, 1762
1. The English Expedition
2. The Spanish Colony
3. Sugar and Society
4. The Victors and the Creoles
Book Three: The Political Struggle, 1823–98
24. The Maine
26. The Spanish-American War
27. San Juan Hill and Santiago
Book Four: From Occupation to Occupation, 1899–1909
31. The Proconsuls II: General Wood
Book Seven: The Age of Democracy, 1934–52
55. The Constitution of 1940
57. Grau
58. Prío, ‘el Presidente de la Cordialidad’
Book Eight: The Struggle, 1952–9
60. Batista: II
61. Fidel Castro: Childhood and Youth
62. Moncada: The Idea
66. Castro in Mexico
67. The Granma and the Sierra Maestra
76. Batista’s ‘Big Push’ of May 1958
Book Nine: Victory: L’Illusion Lyrique, 1959
79. Springs of Victory
80. Castro and the Americas in 1959
81. L’Illusion Lyrique
Book Ten: Old Cuba at Sunset
83. The Island
84. The Class Structure of Cuba
85. Black Cuba
87. Sugar
Book Eleven: The Clash, 1959–62
91. Castro in America
93. The Eclipse of the Liberals
96. The US Prepares for Battle
99. Battle of Cochinos Bay
Epilogue
Afterword
Appendices
III. Sugar Tables
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