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Bezig met laden... Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know® (editie 2016)door Julia E. Sweig
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Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro'slarger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has curried favor with it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself?In this third edition of the widely hailed Cuba: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG, Julia Sweig updates her concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation. This edition contains a new foreword that discusses developments since Obama and Raul Castro announced the normalization ofUS-Cuba relations and restored formal diplomatic ties. A new final chapter discusses how normalization came to pass and covers Pope Francis' visit to Cuba, where he met with Fidel and Raul Castro. Expansive in coverage and authoritative in scope, the book looks back over Cuba's history since theSpanish American War before shifting to recent times. Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, thepost-Cold War era, and - finally - the post-Fidel era.Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it is the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.What Everyone Needs to KnowRG is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Sweig makes this book very accessible to readers by using a nice question and answer format. The book is arranged somewhat chronologically. I say "somewhat" because, on the one hand, the books parts are arranged chronologically: the colonial period, the time before Fidel, the Cold War, the end of the Cold War and Cuba after Fidel. On the other hand, due to the question and answer format, the narrative is not fully linear. You get parts where it says, "see page such and such" to learn more (or to go back to something you have read already). However, that is not a big deal. Sweig does provide some depth within the question and answer format. You do get a look at Cuba that goes past just what you may have heard in Miami if you talk to an exile (or more likely his or her children as time has moved on) or heard from the U.S. government. You learn in the end that the nation of Cuba is a complex and unique nation. You also learn why it is that the revolutionary movement has lasted as much as long as it has, and you learn a bit about what the future holds for the island nation.
Oxford, the publisher of this book, has other books in a series of "what you need to know" on other topics. So, after you pick this one up, you may want to pick up others and learn a bit more. I know I will. ( )