Cuba

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Julia Sweig (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, LBJ School, University of Texas)

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Oxford University Press
11 December 2016

History; History of the Americas; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000

Series: What Everyone Needs To Know®

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 Needs to Know, Julia Sweig updates her concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation. This edition contains a new foreword that discusses developments since Obama and Raul Castro announced the normalization of US-Cuba relations and restored formal diplomatic ties. A new final chapter discusses how normalization came to pass and covers Pope Francis' visit to Cuba, where he met with Fidel and Raul Castro. Expansive in coverage and authoritative in scope, the book looks back over Cuba's history since the Spanish American War before shifting to 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 post-Fidel era.

Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it 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.

By: Julia Sweig (Research Fellow Research Fellow LBJ School University of Texas)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 137mm, Width: 208mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 443g
ISBN: 9780190620370
ISBN 10: 0190620374
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know®
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 11 December 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Cuba Before 1959 2. The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1951-91 3. The Cuban Revolution After the Cold War, 1991-2006 4. After Fidel, Under Raul 5. A Changing Cuba Under Raul Castro's Presidency 6. December 17, 2014 and Beyond Suggested Reading Index

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 by an independent scholar. She has been traveling to and writing about Cuba since 1984. She lives with her family outside of Washington, DC.

Reviews for Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Excellent and... evenhanded.... [It] packs a phenomenal amount of complex history into clear and simple prose. --Los Angeles Times (review of the first edition) Sweig's useful ready reference is highly recommended. --Library Journal (review of the first edition) 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) For several years, Julia Sweig, America's premier expert on Cuba, has been my guide for all matters related to this beautiful, cursed, and consequential island nation. This book - economical, information-packed, and exceedingly well-written - is Sweig's indispensable contribution to our knowledge of Cuba at a particularly tumultuous time in its history. --Jeffrey Goldberg, National Correspondent, The Atlantic