Cuba

pt. 1. Narrative section -- 1. Geography and history -- Geography -- Geographical location : "Cuba is the key" -- Geographical features : topography, climate, flora and fauna, and conservation -- History -- Pre-Columbian history and the Spanish conquest -- Depopulation and abandonment, 1540-1760 -- La Prosperidad Brit??nica : the British occupation of Havana, 1762-1763 -- Sugar and slavery : Cuban economy and society, 1763-1886 -- The end of Cuban slavery, 1880-1886 -- Independence and its aftermath, 1868-1901 -- A dubious independence, 1902-1928 -- The fall of Machado and the rise of Batista, 1928-1940 -- The end of the Grau government and the rise of Fulgencio Batista, 1934-1940 -- Years of hope and betrayal, 1940-1952 -- The Cuban insurgency, 1953-1958 : the rise of Fidel Castro -- The revolution begins now, 1959-1962 -- Conclusion : the ignorance and arrogance of U.S. policy -- 2. Economics and development -- Introduction -- Cuba's economic history and the socioeconomic problems of the 1950s -- Economic experimentation and collectivization, 1959-1970 -- Che Guevara, the "new man," and the great debate -- The radical experiment and the "revolutionary offensive," 1966-1970 -- From radicalism to socialism, 1971-1985 -- The rectification process : from Perestroika to La Espera Estoica, 1986-1989 -- From socialism to survival during the "special period," 1990-1996 -- The fall of Cuba's sugar kingdom -- External economic reform and tourism -- Domestic economic reform, the "second economy," and self-employment -- Economic retrenchment and recentralization, 1996-2006 -- Inequality and social contradictions in today's Cuba -- Conclusion -- 3. Institutions -- Introduction -- Consolidation, radicalization, and charismatic leadership, 1959-1970 -- Early revolutionary decrees -- The consolidation and radicalization of the revolution -- Mass organizations -- Castro as a charismatic hero -- Bureaucratic authority, institutionalization, and people's power, 1970-1989 -- The Cuban Communist Party (PCC) -- The National Assembly (ANPP) -- Cuban elections and the organs of people's power -- Economic crisis, reform, and emergent civil society, 1990-2006 -- The Fourth Party Congress of 1991 and the constitutional revisions on 1992 -- Human rights, political prisoners, and opposition groups -- The emergence of civil society -- Defense, security, education, and health -- The Revolutionary Army Forces (FAR) -- The Ministry of the Interior (MININT) -- Education and health care -- Conclusion -- 4. Culture and society -- Faith and family -- National identity and frustrated nationalism, Cuban??a and Intransigencia -- Race and sexuality, between progress and paternalism -- Cuban-Americans, from exiles to immigrants -- Cuban music -- The son -- The rumba -- The danz??n, canci??n, and the punto guajiro -- Authenticity and crossover : the "rhumba," conga, mambo, and cha-cha-ch?? -- The son afro -- The "rhumba" -- The conga -- The mambo -- From the mambo to Afro-Cuban jazz (Latin jazz) -- The cha-cha-ch?? -- Cuban music in revolution and exile : from salsa to songo, and trova to timba -- Salsa -- Nueva trova -- Irakere and Cuban jazz -- Songo, timba, and Cuban hip-hop -- Revolutionary Cuban cinema -- Cuban literature, the avant-garde vs. the vanguard -- Colonial literature -- Literature of the republic -- Literature under the revolution -- Conclusion --