Cuba Libre

Preface

Part I: 1492-1598
Chapter 1: Columbus Arrives and Spain Colonizes Cuba, 1492-1550
Chapter 2: Sugar and Slavery
Chapter 3: Struggle for Independence, 1868-1898
Chapter 4: Cuban Independence War and US Occupation
Chapter 5: From Occupation to "Good Neighbor"
Chapter 6: Playground of the Western World and the Rise of Batista, 1934-1958
Chapter 7: The Revolutionary Struggle, 1953-1958

Part II: 1959-1989
Chapter 8: The Quest for Sovereignty
Chapter 9: Consolidating the Revolution: Culture and Politics
Chapter 10: Consolidating the Revolution: Economic Reforms, New Institutions, and Basic Needs
Chapter 11: Bay of Pigs/Playa Girón
Chapter 12: The Missile Crisis
Chapter 13: Foreign Policy in the 1960s: Exporting Revolution, Chinese Flirtations, and Soviet Tensions
Chapter 14: Internal Adjustments and Advancing Equality, 1963-1975
Chapter 15: Becoming a Third World Leader, 1970s
Chapter 16: Mariel Exodus-A Warning Signal, 1980
Chapter 17: Change and Rectification at Home and Abroad, 1980s

Part III: 1990-2016
Chapter 18: The "Special Period" in a Time of Peace, 1990-2000
Chapter 19: The Cuban Diaspora and Racial Inequality
Chapter 20: Helms-Burton, US-Cuban Relations, and Terrorism, 1995-1998
Chapter 21: The Pope Goes to Cuba; Elián Goes to Miami, 1998-2000
Chapter 22: The Search for a Viable Strategy, 2001-2006
Chapter 23: The Transition from Fidel to Raúl Castro, 2006-2009
Chapter 24: Securing Cuba's Independence through Economic Change, 2010-2016
Chapter 25: Securing Cuba's Independence through Foreign Policy, 2010-2016
Chapter 26: Change, Continuity, and the Future

Appendix: Chronology of Key Events
Bibliography
Index