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Cuba and the U.S. Empire - A Chronological History (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
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Cuba and the U.S. Empire - A Chronological History (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
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The 1959 Cuban Revolution remains one of the signal events of
modern political history. A tiny island, once a de facto colony of
the United States, declared its independence, not just from the
imperial behemoth ninety miles to the north, but also from global
capitalism itself. Cuba's many achievements - in education, health
care, medical technology, direct local democracy, actions of
international solidarity with the oppressed - are globally
unmatched and unprecedented. And the United States, in light of
Cuba's achievements, has waged a relentless campaign of terrorist
attacks on the island and its leaders, while placing Cuba on its
"State Sponsors of Terrorism" list. In this updated edition of her
classic, Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History, Jane
Franklin depicts the two countries' relationship from the time both
were colonies to the present. We see the early connections between
Cuba and the United States through slavery; through the sugar
trade; then Cuba's multiple wars for national liberation; the
annexation of Cuba by the United States; the infamous Platt
Amendment that entitled the United States to intervene directly in
Cuban affairs; the gangster capitalism promoted by Cuban dictator
Fulgencio Battista; and the guerilla war that brought the
revolutionaries to power. A new chapter updating the fraught
Cuban-U.S. nexus brings us well into the 21st century, with a look
at the current status of Assata Shakur, the Cuban Five, and the
post-9/11 years leading to the expansion of diplomatic relations.
Offering a range of primary and secondary sources, the book is an
outstanding scholarly work. Cuba and the United States brings new
meaning to Simon Bolivar's warning in 1829, that the United States
"appears destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in
the name of Freedom."
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