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Cuba : an American history / Ada Ferrer.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Ferrer, Ada, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cuba--History.
Cuba.
History.
Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.
International relations.
United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Scribner, 2021.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Intro
Title Page
Dedication
Prologue: There and Here
Part I: Dispatches from The First America
Chapter 1: Heaven and Hell
Chapter 2: Key to the Indies
Chapter 3: Copper Virgin
Part II: A Colony Worth a Kingdom
Chapter 4: Havana for Florida
Chapter 5: Most Favored Nation
Chapter 6: Sugar's Revolution
Part III: An Empire for Slavery
Chapter 7: Adams's Apple
Chapter 8: Torture Plots
Chapter 9: Dreams of Dominion
Chapter 10: Civil War Journeys
Part IV: ¡Cuba Libre!
Chapter 11: Slave, Soldier, Citizen
Chapter 12: A Revolution for the World
Part V: American Interregnum
Chapter 13: A War Renamed
Chapter 14: Island Occupied
Part VI: Strange Republic
Chapter 15: Empire of Sugar
Chapter 16: City of Dreams
Chapter 17: Fratricide
Chapter 18: Boom, Crash, Awake
Part VII: Republic, Take Two
Chapter 19: Authentic Masses
Chapter 20: New Charter
Chapter 21: Suitcases
Part VIII: Origin Stories
Chapter 22: Centennial Spirit
Chapter 23: Insurrectionary Line
Chapter 24: The Mountains Rise
Part IX: The Revolution Begins Now!
Chapter 25: First Time
Chapter 26: Radical Nonstop
Part X: Confrontation
Chapter 27: Battle
Chapter 28: Brink
Part XI: Hearts and Minds
Chapter 29: New People?
Chapter 30: New Americans?
Chapter 31: Other Cubas?
Part XII: Departures
Chapter 32: Special Years
Chapter 33: Open and Shut
Epilogue: If Monuments Could Speak
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Index
Image Credits
Copyright
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Ferrer, Ada. Cuba
ISBN:
9781501154577
1501154575
Publisher Number:
40030723803
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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