Cuba: A History

Thomas, Hugh

ISBN 10: 0141034505 ISBN 13: 9780141034508

Publisher: Penguin, 2010

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: November 2010 Pages: 1184 Publisher: Penguin First published in 1971. Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom is still the most important and the authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country. To marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as arguably the world's leading historian of Spanish-speaking peoples with an intricate and absorbing subject. This book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history. from the itish capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and American domination up to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. Throughout the 200-year period of its scope. the book analyses the political. economic and social events that have shaped Cuban history with extraordinary insight and panache. Encyclopaedic in range and eathtaking in execution. Cuba is surely one of the seminal works of worl...

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'An astonishing feat ... the author does more to explain the phenomenon of Fidel's rise to power than anybody else has done so far' Spectator

Hugh Thomas's acclaimed book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. Throughout this period of over two hundred years, Thomas covers subjects ranging from sugar, tobacco and education to slavery, war and occupation. Cuba: the Pursuit of Freedom is the essential work for understanding one of the most fascinating and controversial countries in the world.

'Immensely readable. Thomas's notion of history's scope is generous, for he has not limited himself to telling old political and military events; he describes Cuban culture at all stages ... not merely accessible but absorbing. His language is witty but never mocking, crisp but never harsh' New Yorker

'Thomas seems to have talked to everybody not dead or in jail, and read everything. He is scrupulously fair' Time

About the Author:

Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1962), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971), An Unfinished History of the World (1979), and the first volume of his Spanish Empire trilogy, Rivers of Gold (2003). In 2008 he was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France and in 2009 received the Calvo Serer Prize in Spain and the Bonino Prize in Italy. He was director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, and he became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141034505
• ISBN 13: 9780141034508
• Binding: Unknown Binding
• Number of pages: 1184