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Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction: the Cuban people
1 Insecure settlement: slaughter, slavery and piracy, 1511-1740
Hatuey and Diego Veldsquez: Indian cacique versus Spanish conquistador, i$ii
What happened to Cubas Indians?
Importing a black slave population
The beat of Drakes drum, i$86
Sugar and tobacco: the seventeenth-century development of the island’s wealth
2 The Spanish empire under challenge, 1741-1868
Guantánamo falls to Admiral Vernon, 1741
Havana falls to the Earl of Albemarle, 1762
Spains fresh interest in Cuba, 1763-1791
The slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue, iyçi \'
The sharp increase in the slave population, 1765—1841
The first zephyrs of independence, 1795-1824
Powerful voices advocate white immigration
The seeds of US intervention, 1823—1851
Cuban slavery comes under British attack, 1817—1842
Black rebellion: the conspiracy of La Escalera, 1843—1844
Narciso López and the threat of US annexation, 1850 and 1851
3 Wars of independence and occupation, 1868-1902
The Grito de Yara and the outbreak of the Ten Year War, 1868
General Lersundi and the volunteers seize Havana, 1868—1869
Rebel arguments over slavery and annexation
The Pact of Zanjón, and the Protest ofBaragua, 18/8
José Marti and the fresh dreams of independence
The death of the Apostle, May 189$
Spain and Cuba again at war, 1895-1896
General Weyler s development of the concentration camp, 1896-1897
‘Remember the Maine/: The US intervention in Cuba, i8p8
General Wood and the US occupation of Cuba, i8p8-ip02
Mortgaged independence: the Platt Amendment, 1902
4 The Cuban Republic, 1902-1952
A Republic for Americans: Estrada Palma and Charles Magoon, ip02—ipop
A Republic for white settlers from Spain
A Republic denied to blacks: Evaristo Estenoz and the massacre 0/1912
A Republic for gamblers: Mario Menocal and Bert Crowder
A Republic under dictatorship: Gerardo Machado, the tropical Mussolini, ip2S—ip33
A Republic for revolutionaries: Antonio Guiteras and the Revolution
A Republic designed for Fulgencio Batista, 1954-1952
5 Castro’s Revolution takes shape, 1953-1961
Castros attack on Moneada, 26 July 1953
The Granina landing and the revolutionary war, 1956-1958
The dawn of the Revolution: January 1959
Blacks in the Revolution., iç$ç
The Revolutions impact abroad, 1959-1960
The United States reaction to the Revolution, 1959-1960
The Soviet Unions reaction to the Revolution, 1959-1960
‘The First Declaration of Havana*: the Revolution changes gear, i960
The economics of the Revolution, 1959-1961
The campaign to eradicate illiteracy, 1961
6 The Revolution in power, 1961-1968
The exile invasion at the Bay of Pigs, April 1961
The missiles of October 1962
Castros early honeymoon with the Soviet Union.> May 1963
The first exodus: Camarioca, 1965
Exporting the Revolution: Latin America, 1962—1967
Exporting the Revolution: Black Cubas return to Africa, 1960-1966
Exporting the Revolution: mobilising black Americans
Exporting the Revolution: Che Guevara\'s expedition to Bolivia,
7 Inside the Soviet camp, 1968-1985
The Prague Spring and the decisive turn to the Soviet Union, 1968
Ten million tons: the failure ofthe sugar target of 1970
\'The Brezhnev Yean: restructuring the country in the Soviet image, 1972—1982
Opposition to the Soviet line, at home and abroad, 1968-1972
An opening to the mainland: Castros visit to AUendes Chile, 1971
Castro leaps to the defence of Angola, 197$
The nomadic road to socialism: Castro and the Ethiopian revolution» 1977
Havana, Washington and Miami in the Carter years, 1976—1979
The second exodus: the Mariel hoatlift, 1980
Revolutions in Nicaragua and Grenada, ipyp
8 Cuba stands alone, 1985-2003
Mikhail Gorbachev: the new broom in Moscow: 198$
Cubas victory at Cuito Cuanavale, 1988
The execution of Amaldo Ochoa, ip8p
The ‘Special Period in Peacetime\\ 1990
The third exodus: riot on the Malecón» August 1994
The Torricelli and Helms-Burton Acts, ipp2 and ippó
Pope John Pauls visit to Havana, ipp8
The case ofElián González, ippp
Dissent and opposition, 1991-2003
Cuba in the twenty-first century
Castro bows out> February 2008
Epilogue
Letter from John Quincy Adams, US secretary of state, to Hugh Nelson, the American minister in Madrid, 25 April 182$
The Platt Amendment, 1902
Extracts from The Helms-Burton Act, 1996
Guide to further reading
Photograph credits
Index