Louis A. Pérez, Jr., is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of The War of 1898 (1998), Cuba in the American Imagination (2008), and On Becoming Cuban (2007).

1 Geography and pre-Columbian peoples 1
2 Colony and society 15
3 Out from the shadows 38
4 Transformation and transition 54
5 Reform and revolution in the colony 77
6 Between wars 97
7 Revolution and intervention 118
8 The structure of the republic 145
9 Reform and revolution in the republic 173
10 The eclipse of old Cuba 210
11 Between the old and the new 237
12 Socialist Cuba 257
13 Cuba in the post-Cold War world 291
Political chronology 337
Selective guide to the literature 355
Index 447

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