History of Cuba and Its Relations with the United States,A

Volume I, 1492-1845, From the Conquest of Cuba to La Escalera

A History of Cuba and Its Relations with the United States. Volume 1 covers Cuban history from the beginning down to the slave revolt in Matanzas in 1844. Foner shows how current controversies were foreshadowed one and two and three centuries ago. Here is the distorted economy, underdeveloped and overspecialized, with sugar making up 84 per cent of exports as far back as 1851. And here, in the record of American intervention on the side of Spain during the Monroe, Adams, and Tyler administrations, are the origins of Castro’s bitter tirades against “Yanqui Imperialism.”