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Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Julia Sweig
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Description for Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Paperback. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, 3rd edition, is the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 446.
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has curried favor with it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In this third edition of the widely hailed Cuba: What Everyone ... Read more
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has curried favor with it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In this third edition of the widely hailed Cuba: What Everyone ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190620370
SKU
V9780190620370
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About Julia Sweig
Julia E. Sweig is Senior Research Fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the award-winning author of several other books, including Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground, for which she won the American Historical Association Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year ... Read more
Reviews for Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Splendid...Sweig displays a talent for succinctness and clarity, as well as a subtle, deep knowledge of Cuban affairs.
Foreign Affairs (review of the first edition)
Sweig's useful ready reference is highly recommended.
Library Journal (review of the first edition) ... Read more
Foreign Affairs (review of the first edition)
Sweig's useful ready reference is highly recommended.
Library Journal (review of the first edition) ... Read more