Competing Voices from Revolutionary Cuba: Fighting Words

by Peter McKenna and John Kirk

Book Overview

Using a huge array of sources from the political, religious, social, artistic and personal spheres, the story of Cuba, so often linked with the neighbouring US, is set in its historical context and rigorously examined. Issues examined include: the Revolution and upheaval that followed; the Cuban missile crisis; Cuba's position in COMECON; the rise of Cuba's profile in the 1980s; the crisis that followed the dismantling of the USSR; Cuba in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846450233
• ISBN13: 9781846450235
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"