Chomsky - A History of the Cuban Revolution

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 01
3. Chapter 02
4. Chapter 03
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 07

Themes and Interpretations in Latin American History

Series editor: Jrgen Buchenau

The books in this series will introduce students to the most significant themes and topics in Latin American history. They represent a novel approach to designing supplementary texts for this growing market. Intended as supplementary textbooks, the books will also discuss the ways in which historians have interpreted these themes and topics, thus demonstrating to students that our understanding of our past is constantly changing, through the emergence of new sources, methodologies, and historical theories. Unlike monographs, the books in this series will be broad in scope and written in a style accessible to undergraduates.

A History of the Cuban Revolution, Second Edition
Aviva Chomsky

Bartolom de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas
Lawrence A. Clayton

Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States
Timothy J. Henderson

The Last Caudillo: Alvaro Obregn and the Mexican Revolution
Jrgen Buchenau

A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution
Jeremy Popkin

Spaniards in the Colonial Empire: Creoles vs. Peninsulars?
Mark A. Burkholder

Dictatorship in South America
Jerry Dvila

Mothers Making Latin America
Erin E. OConnor

Second Edition

Aviva Chomsky

This edition first published 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chomsky, Aviva, 1957
A history of the Cuban Revolution / Aviva Chomsky. Second edition.
pagescm
Original edition published in 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-94228-4 (pbk.)
1.CubaHistoryRevolution, 1959.2.CubaHistoryRevolution, 1959Influence. I.Title.
F1788.C465 2015
972.91064dc23

2014040325

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Jos Fuster, Untitled, 2003. Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.
Collection of Janine & Joseph Gonyea III, Photograph by Jonathan B. Smith.

Each book in the Viewpoints/Puntos de Vista series introduces students to a significant theme or topic in Latin American history. In an age in which student and faculty interest in the Global South increasingly challenges the old focus on the history of Europe and North America, Latin American history has assumed an increasingly prominent position in undergraduate curricula.

Some of these books discuss the ways in which historians have interpreted these themes and topics, thus demonstrating that our understanding of our past is constantly changing, through the emergence of new sources, methodologies, and historical theories. Others offer an introduction to a particular theme by means of a case study or biography in a manner easily understood by the contemporary, non-specialist reader. Yet others give an overview of a major theme that might serve as the foundation of an upper-level course.

What is common to all of these books is their goal of historical synthesis. They draw on the insights of generations of scholarship on the most enduring and fascinating issues in Latin American history, while also making use of primary sources as appropriate. Each book is written by a specialist in Latin American history who is concerned with undergraduate teaching, yet who has also made his or her mark as a first-rate scholar.

The books in this series can be used in a variety of ways, recognizing the differences in teaching conditions at small liberal arts colleges, large public universities, and research-oriented institutions with doctoral programs. Faculty have particular needs depending on whether they teach large lectures with discussion sections, small lecture or discussion-oriented classes, or large lectures with no discussion sections, and whether they teach on a semester or trimester system. The format adopted for this series fits all of these different parameters.