Product Description: A great power and a weaker, rival neighbor can eventually have normal relations. Prior to 1959, Cuba and the United States didn’t have a mutually beneficial and respectful relationship, and amid the Cold War, Cuba’s alliance with the Soviet Union made U...read more

Product Description: In Looking Forward, Marifeli Perez-Stable and her colleagues imagine Cuba's future after the “poof moment”—Jorge I. Domínguez's vivid phrase—when the current regime will no longer exist. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to all interested readers, this volume does not try to predict how and when the Castro regime will end, but instead considers the possible consequences of change...read more

'A very good and thoughtful account of the Cuban Revolution, rooted in historical analysis with a solid understanding of the discontinuities shaping revolutionary Cuba. Sees the basic drive as 'radical nationalism' in the context of institution and nation building'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ (view table of contents)