The Era of inevitable gravitation: the United States and Colonial Cuba -- The crusade against Autocracy: the ending of Spanish rule -- The semi-sovereign Republic of Cuba -- The contradictions of constitutionalism, nationalism, and corruption -- Embracing dictatorship: the United States and Batista -- Shunning dictatorship: the United States and Batista -- Radical nationalism resists gravitation -- Social revolution breaks the tie
Summary
Jules Benjamin argues convincingly that modern conflicts between Cuba and the United States stem from a long history of U.S. hegemony and Cuban resistance. He shows what difficulties the smaller country encountered because of U.S. efforts first to make it part of an "empire of liberty" and later to dominate it by economic methods, and he analyzes the kind of misreading of ardent nationalism that continues to plague U.S. policymaking
Analysis
Foreign relations History
Cuba
United States
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 219-232
Notes
Includes index
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