Combines a panoramic survey of Cuban history from the English capture of Havana in 1762 to the present with a penetrating analysis of contemporary Cuban politics

Cuba : The Pursuit of Freedom

History

HUGH, THOMAS

Americas

Harper&Row

8vo. (2) 319 pp, b&amp;w frontis, preface, 19 chapters with footnotes, epilogue, index with 2 b&amp;w illustrations. Excellent biography of one of the leading British socialists of the '30s, and a member of the postwar government. Blue cloth.

John Strachey

Madrid: a Travellers' Companion: A Travellers' Companion (Drama)

Travel

Europe

Constable and Company Ltd.

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire. Hugh Thomas

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Penguin??Books

Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

World

First published in 1971, "Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom" is still the most important and authoritative book on this complex and often geopolitically significant country, marrying Hugh Thomas' unique skills as arguably the world's leading historian of Spanish-speaking peoples with an intricate and absorbing subject. This book explores the whole sweep of Cuban history, from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and American domination up to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. Throughout the 200-year period of its scope, the book analyses the political, economic and social events that have shaped Cuban history with extraordinary insight and panache. Encyclopaedic in range and breathtaking in execution, "Cuba" is surely one of the seminal works of world history.

Cuba: A History. Hugh Thomas

An unfinished history of the world

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Following the paths of Herodotus, Raleigh and H.G. Wells, this updated edition surveys the story of humankind, from the dawn of man to the hopes that will carry the world through the last years of the 20th century. The book won the National Book Award for History in 1980. Hugh Thomas also won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962 for his book, "The Spanish Civil War".

An Unfinished History of the World

Reference

Pan Books

Award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays the history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also describes accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.

Slave Trade, The: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870

Business & Money

Macmillan Publishers, Limited

Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom

Pan/Macmillan

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