Ada Ferrer
Cuba
An American History
Scribner, 2021
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Cuba’s history has been bound up with America’s for centuries.
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A tropical island in the passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, Cuba is an epic poem in every way. It has suffered conquest, violent occupation, the slave trade – and political revolution. Cuba and the United States were already interconnected before the American War of Independence, but Fidel Castro’s takeover in 1959 and Cuba’s association with the Soviet Union vaulted the relationship into a new, Cold War context. Professor Ada Ferrer’s comprehensive history gives readers a sense of Cuba and the United States’s complicated connection – and what it looks like now, as it moves into an uncertain future.
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About the Author
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian and a professor of history and Latin American studies at New York University. She won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for this book and the Frederick Douglass Prize in 2015 for Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution.
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