Cuba 1964

Author : Christopher Hull
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137301767
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Diplomacy and US Hegemony in Cuba, 1898-1964 written by Christopher Hull and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Cuba's history from a British diplomatic perspective during the period of US political and economic domination, from 1898 to 1964. It investigates how Britain attempted to protect its trade and other interests in the island, whilst always sensitive to the reactions of its most important ally, the United States.

Author : Piero Gleijeses
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807861622
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflicting Missions written by Piero Gleijeses and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA--and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's major covert operation there. Based on unprecedented archival research and firsthand interviews in virtually all of the countries involved--Gleijeses was even able to gain extensive access to closed Cuban archives--this comprehensive and balanced work sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations. It revolutionizes our view of Cuba's international role, challenges conventional U.S. beliefs about the influence of the Soviet Union in directing Cuba's actions in Africa, and provides, for the first time ever, a look from the inside at Cuba's foreign policy during the Cold War. "Fascinating . . . and often downright entertaining. . . . Gleijeses recounts the Cuban story with considerable flair, taking good advantage of rich material.--Washington Post Book World "Gleijeses's research . . . bluntly contradicts the Congressional testimony of the era and the memoirs of Henry A. Kissinger. . . . After reviewing Dr. Gleijeses's work, several former senior United States diplomats who were involved in making policy toward Angola broadly endorsed its conclusions.--New York Times "With the publication of Conflicting Missions, Piero Gleijeses establishes his reputation as the most impressive historian of the Cold War in the Third World. Drawing on previously unavailable Cuban and African as well as American sources, he tells a story that's full of fresh and surprising information. And best of all, he does this with a remarkable sensitivity to the perspectives of the protagonists. This book will become an instant classic.--John Lewis Gaddis, author of We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Based on unprecedented research in Cuban, American, and European archives, this is the compelling story of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses sheds new light on U.S. foreign policy and CIA covert operations, revolutionizes our view of Cuba's international role, and provides the first look from the inside at Cuba's foreign policy during the Cold War. -->

Author : R. Hart Phillips
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787209393
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cuban Dilemma written by R. Hart Phillips and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT BY THE NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT—WHAT REALLY OCCURRED IN CUBA AFTER FIDEL CASTRO SEIZED POWER In three short years Fidel Castro and his revolution have destroyed the once prosperous economy of Cuba and helped the Soviet Union establish its first armed beachhead in the Western Hemisphere. Ruby Hart Phillips, for twenty-five years the resident New York Times correspondent in Havana, maintains that Castro’s takeover is a classic example of the incredibly inadequate American policy in foreign affairs. A display of courage and foresight even as late as 1958 would, she declares, have neutralized Castro and put Cuba back on the road to democracy. The claim by Castro supporters, both in Cuba and the United States, that Castro was pushed into the Communist camp by our mistaken foreign policy is clearly shown to be one of the great lies of the Castro revolution. But, she stresses, the United States must take the whole responsibility for Cuba’s communism today. Step by step she analyzes the indecisive and conciliatory moves of the U.S. State.

Author : Deena Stryker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484138779
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba 1964 written by Deena Stryker and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the definitive answer to the question of whether Castro was a Communist before he made the revolution or not. In a series of conversations held in 1964 with all the members of the Cuban govenrnment who had participated in the overthrow of Batista in 1959, each one told in his own words why he had participated in the revolution. It is also a chronicle of the salient events that took place in revolutionary Cuba during that year, including the trial of a traitor, disagreements among ministers over art and economic policies, US overflights and provocations at the U.S. base in Guantanamo. The book is illustrated with dozens of black and white photographs from the author's 1964 archive, now at Duke University, and several photos from a return voyage in 2011.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968 written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan C. Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978323
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba’s Revolutionary World written by Jonathan C. Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Castro’s democratic reform movement veered off course, a revolution that seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America brought about its tragic opposite. Jonathan C. Brown examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the century’s most transformative events.

Author : Isaac Saney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498591329
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End written by Isaac Saney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End: Africa’s Children Return! examines the historic dimensions of the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with Africa through the lens of Cuba’s role in the battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the southern African national liberation and anti-colonial struggle more broadly.

Author : William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626616
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back Channel to Cuba written by William M. LeoGrande and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh here present a remarkably new and relevant account, describing how, despite the intense political clamor surrounding efforts to improve relations with Havana, negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. They reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, that provides the historical foundation for the dramatic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba ties.

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sartre on Cuba written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Blaine Pardoe
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 : 1781553785
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fires of October: The Planned US Invasion of Cuba During the Missile Crisis of 1962 written by Blaine Pardoe and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the closest we ever came to unleashing the Third World War.... The image of that world was so horrible to contemplate that both sides stepped away from that precipice and opted for peace. Fires of October is the exhilarating military history of the Cuban Missile Crisis exploring in detail the strategic plans implemented by American Armed Forces as they headed towards a catastrophic nuclear collision with Cuba and the USSR. Using recently declassified material, Blaine Pardoe systematically recounts the origins of the crisis, from the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and Cuba s military metamorphosis, to the internal disorganization of the US military, which exacerbated tensions between the USA, Cuba, and the USSR. Pardoe reveals that the invasion plans were based on old intelligence, outdated maps, and misconceptions about the size, strength, and composition of the Soviet forces in Cuba; for the first time, and with harrowing results, he scrutinizes the potential fallout had the invasion gone ahead. Gripping and unnerving, Fires of October shows us just how close the world came to nuclear war.