Cuba: A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America)

by Leslie Bethell (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $66.04

  Four chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the Cambridge History of Latin America trace the political, economic and social development of Cuba.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $24.05

  Cuba: A Short History brings together four chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for scholars, students and general readers a concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars in the field, trace the political, economic, and social development of Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century onwards. The concluding chapter, updated for this volume, considers the dilemmas and challenges that Castro's Cuba faces in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.