Cuba by Hugh Thomas
Explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. This book analyses the political, economic and social events that have shaped Cuban history with insight and panache.
Hugh Thomas is the author of, among other books, The Spanish Civil War (1962), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (1971), An Unfinished History of the World (1979), and the first volume of his Spanish Empire trilogy, Rivers of Gold (2003). In 2008 he was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France and in 2009 received the Calvo Serer Prize in Spain and the Bonino Prize in Italy. He was director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, and he became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141034508 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141034505 |
| Title | Cuba |
| Author | Hugh Thomas |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-11-25 |
| Number of pages | 1184 |
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